Download or read book Showdown in Virginia written by William W. Freehling and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1861, Virginians confronted destiny—their own and their nation’s. Pivotal decisions awaited about secession, the consequences of which would unfold for a hundred years and more. But few Virginians wanted to decide at all. Instead, they talked, almost interminably. The remarkable record of the Virginia State Convention, edited in a fine modern version in 1965, runs to almost 3,000 pages, some 1.3 million words. Through the diligent efforts of William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson, this daunting record has now been made accessible to teachers, students, and general readers. With important contextual contributions—an introduction and commentary, chronology, headnotes, and suggestions for further reading—the essential core of the speeches, and what they signified, is now within reach. This is a collection of speeches by men for whom everything was at risk. Some saw independence and even war as glory; others predicted ruin and devastation. They all offered commentary of lasting interest to anyone concerned about the fate of democracy in crisis.

Download or read book The secession convention of Virginia 1861 written by Carrie Helen Bently and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Members of the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 written by Sterling Boisseau and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Virginia s Decision written by Benjamin J. Hillman and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Henry A Wise and the Virginia Secession Convention February 13 April 17 1861 written by Paul Alexander Atkins and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biographical Register of Members Virginia State Convention of 1861 First Session written by William Harris Gaines and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Virginia Secession Convention written by University of Richmond and published by . This book was released on 2013* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Virginia and the crisis of union: On February 13, 1861, delegates representing all counties in Virginia met to decide how the state would respond to recent events, especially Abraham Lincoln's election and South Carolina's secession. They voted to remain in the Union and hoped that a compromise could be reached to defuse the situation. Two months later, the same men voted to secede from the United States, sparking a radically different war than might otherwise have taken place. Secession: Virginia and the Crisis of Union links the fully transcribed text of these debates with a wealth of contextual information, giving users the tools to ask why the men who brought the war into their own counties and neighborhoods did so."--Opening screen.

Download or read book The Virginia State Convention of 1861 and Virginia Secession written by Thomas Webster Richey and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861 February 13 May 1 written by George Reese and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861 February 13 May 1 written by George Henkle Reese and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Secession in Virginia and the Virginia State Convention 1861 written by Sandy Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Secession Movement in Virginia 1847 1861 written by Henry Thomas Shanks and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Secession Convention of 1861 written by Kemp P. Battle and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journals and Papers of the Virginia State Convention of 1861 written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ordinances Adopted by the Convention of Virginia in Secret Session in April and May 1861 written by Virginia. Convention, Richmond, 1861 and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Virginia at War 1861 written by William Davis and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-11-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Civil War battles were fought on Virginian soil than on that of any other Confederate state. No state suffered more from invasion and occupation than the Old Dominion, and none witnessed as much of the war. Virginia’s story of the Civil War stands unique among the Confederate States. Virginia at War, 1861 looks at Virginia on the eve of secession, detailing the activities of the convention that finally took the state out of the Union and explaining how Richmond became the capital of the new Confederate nation. Chapters in the book examine Virginia’s private state army and its little-known state navy, as well as the impact that secession and the first year of the war had on Virginia’s black community, both slave and free. Virginia was the only Confederate state to suffer an internal secession, and the story of that “other Virginia” that broke away and became West Virginia is explored in all its bizarre complexity. Virginia at War, 1861 is the first in a new five-volume series, edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr. for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech. Each volume will bring together leading Civil War historians to study one year of the Civil War in Virginia.

Download or read book Ordinances adopted by the Convention of Virginia in secret session in April and May 1861 written by VIRGINIA, State of. Constitutional Convention, 1861 and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: