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

Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006

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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 Summary Serving both as home to the Confederacy's capital, Richmond, and as the war's primary battlefield, Virginia held a unique place in the American Civil War, while also witnessing the privations and hardships that marked life in all corners of the Confederacy. Yet despite an overwhelming literature on the battles that raged across the state and the armies and military leaders involved, few works have examined Virginia as a distinctive region during the conflict. In Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration, Edward L. Ayers, Gary W. Gallagher, and Andrew J. Torget, together with other scholars, offer 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, several of the essays 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. Other contributions shed light on topics long disputed by historians, such as Virgina's decision to secede from the Union, the development of Confederate nationalism, and how Virginians chose to remember the war after its close. For anyone interested in Virginia during the Civil War, this book offers new ways to approach the study of the most important state in the Confederacy during the bloodiest war in American history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Secession -- Virginia Group identity -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Virginia. Memory -- Social aspects -- Virginia HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Group identity Historiography Memory -- Social aspects Race relations -- Political aspects Secession Slavery Social aspects SUBJECT Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143770 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 Subject United States United States -- Confederate States of America Virginia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Ayers, Edward L., 1953- Gallagher, Gary W Torget, Andrew J., 1978- LC no. 2006002243 ISBN 9780813930497 0813930499 1280490055 9781280490057 9786613585288 6613585289

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