Virginia at war, 1865
By: edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr., for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies
Contributors: Virginia Center for Civil War Studies
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780813134680; 9780813134697
Subjects: Social aspects; Campaigns; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Land operations in Virginia in 1865: time catches up with Lee at last / Chris Calkins; title: "Uncertainties and alarms": women and families on Virginia's home front / Ginette Aley; title: "The question of bread is a very serious one": Virginia's wartime economy / Jaime Amanda Martinez; title: "Better to be merry than sad": music and entertainment in wartime Virginia / E. Lawrence Abel; title: To Danville: a government on wheels / F. Lawrence McFall Jr; title: "When Johnny comes marching home": the demobilization of Lee's army / Kevin Levin; title: "Traitors shall not dictate to us": Afro-Virginians and the unfinished emancipation of 1865 / Ervin L. Jordan Jr; title: "So unsettled by the war": the aftermath in Virginia, 1865 / John M. McClure; title: Diary of a southern refugee during the war, August 1864-May 1865 / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire.