Download or read book Southside Virginia in the Civil War written by Anthony J. Gage and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Free State written by Landon Covington Bell and published by Richmond, Va. : W. Byrd Press. This book was released on 1927 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The War Hits Home written by Brian Steel Wills and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1863 Confederate forces confronted the Union garrison at Suffolk Virginia, and an exhausting and deadly campaign followed. Wills (history and philosophy, U. of Virginia-Wise) focuses on how the ordinary people of the region responded to the war. He finds that many remained devoted to the Confederate cause, while others found the demands too difficult and opted in a number of ways not to carry them any longer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book Southside Virginia Chronicles written by John Caknipe Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia's Southside and Piedmont regions have produced some of the finest religious, educational and community leaders in the Old Dominion. Lewis Burwell was a founding father of the commonwealth who served in the House of Burgesses. John Ravenscroft was an early behemoth of regional religious thought known for his passionate promotion of the Episcopal Church and its teachings. The region's history is rich beyond its leaders as well. From early mining operations to the formation of the Christianville Academy to the impact of the Civil War, Southside Virginia is not exempt from the commonwealth's storied past. Join author, historian and local columnist John Caknipe as he compiles his most fascinating columns for the first time to regale readers with Southside Virginia's historic heroes, overlooked history and more.
Download or read book Southside Virginia written by Martin Paul Schipper and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War Series M written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southside written by Thomas Fowler and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Grant had battered Lee's little army into a corner, fighting with courageous desperation. The Army of Northern Virginia had diminishing ammunition, little food and ragged uniforms. Grant's federal forces had multiplied, while Marse Robert's little band was hurting for any replacements, at all. The use of black troops had been granted, far too late. Grant wired President Lincoln of Lee's desperate condition, and opined that he could end this thing if the matter were pressed. Lincoln urged, "Let the matter be pressed." SOUTHSIDE seeks to tell how this ''pressing'' actually affected local people-women, children, crippled soldiers, old men and young boys. No one in Southern Virginia was exempt from the pain of the war's pressure. Prisoners and guards in Danville ate the same ration...one piece of "interesting" cornbread, per day. Only one town in Virginia was feared by the United States Army. Not Richmond, not Lynchburg-but Danville, in deep Southern Virginia. The bustling city of Richmond may have been crowned the Capitol of the South, but hungry soldiers and the President were soon rushing toward Danville, which would be the Capitol. Perhaps, later, the Capitol could be moved farther Southward. To General Robert E. Lee, Danville was his Army's last chance for survival. There, he could resupply, feed his exhausted troops, and arrange a linkup with the Army of Tennessee-larger in size than his own. Danville, Virginia, the small riverside town, had exploded in size and importance. Fighting equipment awaited Lee-along with uniforms, shoes, and artillery. Dry, fresh ammunition rested in warehouses. Danville's access to river and rail, plus the many tobacco houses, made her a ''Golden City,'' with treasures that would restart the war effort. Presidents Lincoln and Davis knew this. Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan knew this, also. Meanwhile, there was one other great asset on the way to Danville...the railroad's crucial bridge at the Staunton River. Destroy that key bridge, and Richmond is cut off from Danville. Munitions and rations cannot be forwarded to Lee, and all resistance stops. Cold. Northern politicians and officers were shouting this at each other, and the big push was to head off Lee from Danville. Lincoln's bony finger, similar to Jefferson Davis', traced the rail route to Danville, many times, no doubt pausing to tap the little bridge over the deep Staunton river. General Wilson and General Kautz were sent to burn the bridge, and isolate Danville. They were equipped splendidly, carrying the prized Spencer Carbine-the innovation that Wilson had approved for all cavalry, during his stint in Washington, as "Grant's Darling", as some called him. With 5,500 men, nothing could stand up to him in rural Virginia. But, Lee sent some old men, and some boys.
Download or read book Southside Virginia Chronicles written by John Caknipe and published by American Chronicles. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia's Southside and Piedmont regions have produced some of the finest religious, educational and community leaders in the Old Dominion. Lewis Burwell was a founding father of the commonwealth who served in the House of Burgesses. John Ravenscroft was an early behemoth of regional religious thought known for his passionate promotion of the Episcopal Church and its teachings. The region's history is rich beyond its leaders as well. From early mining operations to the formation of the Christianville Academy to the impact of the Civil War, Southside Virginia is not exempt from the commonwealth's storied past. Join author, historian and local columnist John Caknipe as he compiles his most fascinating columns for the first time to regale readers with Southside Virginia's historic heroes, overlooked history and more.
Download or read book Southside Virginia written by Martin Paul Schipper and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes on Southside Virginia written by Walter Allen Watson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southern Families at War Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South written by Women's History Catherine Clinton Historian of Southern History, and the American Civil War and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000-07-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it was planter patriarchs struggling to maintain authority, or Jewish families coerced by Christian evangelicalism, or wives and mothers left behind to care for slaves and children, the Civil War took a terrible toll. From the bustling sidewalks of Richmond to the parched plains of the Texas frontier, from the rich Alabama black belt to the Tennessee woodlands, no corner of the South went unscathed. Through the prism of the southern family, this volume of twelve original essays provides fresh insights into this watershed in American history.
Download or read book Lions of the Dan written by J.K. Brandau and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tells the brigade’s long history for the first time . . . captures the daily grind of soldiers striving and struggling in the ranks . . . A triumph” (Peter S. Carmichael, Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College). This unique history chronicles those men of Pickett’s Charge over the full course of the Civil War. While time-honored celebrations of Armistead and Pickett focus narrowly on moments at Gettysburg, primary sources declare the untold story of the best of men in the worst of times, and refutes Lost Cause myths surrounding Armistead and Pickett. For the first time, Lions of the Dan widens the aperture to introduce real heroes and amazing deeds that have been suppressed until now. The author presents the experiences of real soldiers in their own words and highlights the much-ignored history of Southside Virginia, presenting the Civil War start to finish from a unique regional perspective. Readers will find their pedestrian notions of the founding of the South’s peculiar institution challenged as they read an objective account of Virginia’s secession and celebrate the courage and devotion of soldiers on both sides.
Download or read book The Old Free State written by Landon Covington Bell and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book With Lee in Virginia written by G. A. Henty and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story revolves around Vincent Wingfield, young farmer who lost his father and whose mother is in charge of an estate called the Orangery. Vincent is preparing to take over the reins when he came of age but the war starts and he joins the fights for the Confederate States of America, even though he is against slavery. Vincent leaves the overseer Jonas Pearson, notorious for being the tyrant, in charge of the Orangery. Vincent gets to taste of action at Bull Run and from that point he works his way up through many adventures, meeting all the major Southern figures of that time such as Stonewall Jackson, Jeb Stuart and finally Robert E. Lee. Vincent gets wounded twice, involved in a variety of chases, and been captured twice, the second time being treated as a spy and coming across Pearson, who had thrown in his lot with the North.
Download or read book The Civil War from a Southern Standpoint written by Ann E. Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Virginia Girl in the Civil War Expanded Annotated written by Myrta Lockett Avary and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She and her biographer were both real-life Scarlett O'Haras. Born to privilege and wealth in antebellum Virginia, she married at seventeen and then was plunged into the events of the American Civil War. Myrta Lockett Avary was her biographer and though Avary does not give up her friend's identity, the story captured the imagination of the world when first published in 1903. Avary also wrote "Dixie After the War," which may have been the inspiration for Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind." She was also the original editor of "A Diary from Dixie as written by Mary Boykin Chestnut," featured very prominently in Ken Burns' documentary, The Civil War. A write for major periodicals during her day, Myrta Avary was a successful and well-known writer. We're fortunate that she chronicled the world that was left behind in the wake of the Civil War. "The narrative is one that both interests and charms. The beginning of the end of the long and desperate struggle is unusually well told, and now the survivors lived during the last days of the fading Confederacy forms a vivid picture of those distressful times.”—Baltimore Herald. “The style of the narrative is attractively informal and chatty. Its pathos is that of simplicity. It throws upon a cruel period of our national career a side-light, bringing out tender and softening interests too little visible in the pages of formal history.”—New York World. “This is a tale that will appeal to every Southern man and woman, and can not fail to be of interest to every reader. It is-as fresh and vivacious, even in dealing with dark days, as the young soul that underwent the hardships of a most cruel war."—Louisville Courier-Journal. “Taken at this time, when the years have buried all resentment, dulled all sorrows, and brought new generations to the scenes, a work of this kind can not fail of value just as it can not fail in interest. Official history moves with two great strides to permit of the smaller, more intimate events; fiction lacks the realistic, powerful appeal of actuality; such works as this must be depended upon to fill in the unoccupied interstices, to show us just what were the lives of those who were in this conflict or who lived in the midst of it without being able actively to participate in it. And of this type 'A Virginia Girl in the Civil War ' is a truly admirable example.”—Philadelphia Record.
