Crucible of the Civil War [electronic resource] : Virginia from secession to commemoration / edited by Edward L. Ayers, Gary W. Gallagher, and Andrew J. Torget.

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ISBN:

9780813930497

Title:

Crucible of the Civil War [electronic resource] : Virginia from secession to commemoration / edited by Edward L. Ayers, Gary W. Gallagher, and Andrew J. Torget.

Author:

Ayers, Edward L., 1953-

Publication Information:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) : illustrations, maps

Contents:

Unions of slavery : slavery, politics, and secession in the Valley of Virginia / Andrew J. Torget -- "I owe Virginia little, my country much" : Robert E. Lee, the United States Regular Army, and unconditional unionism / Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh -- "It is old Virginia and we must have it" : overcoming regionalism in Civil War Virginia / Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- Defining Confederate respectability : morality, patriotism, and Confederate identity in Richmond's Civil War public press / Amy R. Minton -- The slave market in Civil War Virginia / Jaime Amanda Martinez -- Race, religion, and rebellion : black and white Baptists in Albemarle County, Virginia, during the Civil War / Andrew Witmer -- "The right to love and to mourn" : the origins of Virginia's Ladies' Memorial associations, 1865-1867 / Caroline E. Janney -- Reconciliation in Reconstruction Virginia / Susanna Michele Lee.

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Subject Term:

Secession -- Virginia.

Group identity -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.

Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Virginia.

Memory -- Social aspects -- Virginia.

Geographic Term:

Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.

Confederate States of America -- Historiography.

Virginia -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.

Added Author:

Ayers, Edward L., 1953-

Gallagher, Gary W.

Torget, Andrew J., 1978-

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2006

Publication Information:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.

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Summary

Crucible of the Civil War offers an illuminating portrait of the state's wartime economic, political, and social institutions. Weighing in on contentious issues within established scholarship while also breaking ground in areas long neglected by scholars, the contributors examine such concerns as the war's effect on slavery in the state, the wartime intersection of race and religion, and the development of Confederate social networks. They also shed light on topics long disputed by historians, such as Virginia's decision to secede from the Union, the development of Confederate nationalism, and how Virginians chose to remember the war after its close.

Author Notes

Edward L. Ayers, former Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History and Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, is President of the University of Richmond. Gary W. Gallagher is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. Andrew J. Torget is the Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond and a historian of nineteenth-century America.