Bibliograph

Virginia at war, 1864, edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr. for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies

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Virginia at war, 1864, edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr. for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Virginia at war, 1864

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

318874749

Responsibility statement

edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr. for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies

Summary

The fourth book in the Virginia at War series casts a special light on vital home front matters in Virginia during 1864. Following a year in which only one major battle was fought on Virginia soil, 1864 brought military campaigning to the Old Dominion. For the first time during the Civil War, the majority of Virginia's forces fought inside the state's borders. Yet soldiers were a distinct minority among the Virginians affected by the war. In Virginia at War, 1864, scholars explore various aspects of the civilian experience in Virginia including transportation and communication, wartime literature, politics and the press, higher education, patriotic celebrations, and early efforts at reconstruction in Union-occupied Virginia. The volume focuses on the effects of war on the civilian infrastructure as well as efforts to maintain the Confederacy. As in previous volumes, the book concludes with an edited and annotated excerpt of the Judith Brockenbrough McGuire diary

Table Of Contents

Land operations in Virginia in 1864 : the tightening noose / Richard J. Sommers -- Politics in Civil War Virginia : a democracy on trial / Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- A "patriotic press" : Virginia's Confederate newspapers, 1861-1865 / Ted Tunnell -- Clinging to patriotism : the Fourth of July in Civil War Virginia / Jared Bond -- Trains, canals, and turnpikes : transportation in Civil War Virginia, 1861-1865 / Bradford A. Wineman -- "We are all good scavengers now" : the crisis in Virginia agriculture during the Civil War / Ginette Aley -- The struggle to learn : higher education in Civil War Virginia / Peter Wallenstein -- Words in war : the literature of Confederate Virginia / William C. Davis -- Rehearsing reconstruction in occupied Virginia : life and emancipation at Fort Monroe / J. Michael Cobb -- Diary of a southern refugee during the war, June 1863-July 1864 / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire ; edited by James I. Robertson Jr

Target audience

adult

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