Virginia at war, 1865 /
By January 1865, most of Virginia's schools were closed, many newspapers had ceased publication, businesses suffered, and food was scarce. Having endured major defeats on their home soil and the loss of much of the state's territory to the Union army, Virginia's Confederate soldiers b...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor Corporativo: | |
Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2012.
|
Colección: | Virginia at war series.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Land operations in Virginia in 1865: time catches up with Lee at last / Chris Calkins
- "Uncertainties and alarms": women and families on Virginia's home front / Ginette Aley
- "The question of bread is a very serious one": Virginia's wartime economy / Jaime Amanda Martinez
- "Better to be merry than sad": music and entertainment in wartime Virginia / E. Lawrence Abel
- To Danville: a government on wheels / F. Lawrence McFall Jr
- "When Johnny comes marching home": the demobilization of Lee's army / Kevin Levin
- "Traitors shall not dictate to us": Afro-Virginians and the unfinished emancipation of 1865 / Ervin L. Jordan Jr
- "So unsettled by the war": the aftermath in Virginia, 1865 / John M. McClure
- Diary of a southern refugee during the war, August 1864-May 1865 / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire.