Download or read book The War in Southwest Virginia 1861 1865 written by Gary C. Walker and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Walker has done an outstanding job of explaining the Confederate war effort to protect this area of land and its vital resources. . . . It is the Confederate classic on this particular area of study." --Ed Porter, The Lone Star E-Newsletter During the Civil War, Southwest Virginia's resources were essential to the South's war effort, and its railroads were a lifeline to the rest of the Confederacy. The separation of West Virginia left the area vulnerable to invading Northern armies and led to continual invasions and battles. This area was vital in supplying salt to preserve Southern food and lead for Southern guns. Although Southwest Virginia originally voted to remain part of the Union, support for the developing Confederacy soon grew. Virginia elected to secede from the nation and greatly aided the South in the war. Walker presents a detailed account of the operations in Southwest Virginia. In gripping narrative, he relates the effects of the war on the individual soldier and the nation as a whole. Each major battle over the course of four grueling years is retold, and each strategic decision is examined so that the war itself turns into a human effort, an exhausting struggle to retain the lands in Southwest Virginia for the South. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gary C. Walker has been a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans for more than thirty years and has been recognized by the State of South Carolina Legislature for his many accomplishments in Civil War history. Walker is a member of several historic and preservation groups and often participates in Civil War reenactments. He is the author of Civil War Tales, Hunter's Fiery Raid through Virginia Valleys, Confederate Coloring and Learning Book, A General History of the Civil War: The Southern Point of View, and Son of the South, a novel set in Civil War-era Virginia, all published by Pelican.
Download or read book The War in Southwest Virginia 1861 65 written by Gary C. Walker and published by A&w Enterprise. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only book on that crucial military department. Over fifty battles waged in an attempt to destroy the Confederacy's only source of salt & lead. Crack Union troops under excellent generals like Crook, Stoneman, & Burbridge launched numerous attacks into the area. The Dixie boys manned the trenches & braved overwhelming odds. Southern generals like Breckinridge, Jackson, "Grumble" Jones, & "The Devil" Morgan struggled valiantly to maintain the critical war materials flow to General Lee. HUNTER'S FIERY RAID THROUGH VIRGINIA VALLEYS; 0-9617897-0-8; $32.95. This is the only accurate account of wicked General David "Black Dave" Hunter's campaign to destroy the Confederacy by stopping the flow of salt & lead through the Shenandoah, James, & Roanoke River Valleys. Hatred clouded Hunter's judgment as he reaped punishment on slave-holding Virginia. Towns were burned, looting & wanton destruction were commonplace. Staunton & Lexington (including V.M.I) were burned. Savage fighting raged around Lynchburg & through the Roanoke-Salem area. CIVIL WAR TALES; 0-9617898-1-6; $25.95. This is a delightful concoction of newly uncovered pure history, hilarious fables, heart wrenching stories, & just plain bull. Based on family stories. Learn interesting facts about Lee, Jackson, Ashby, & John Wilkes Booth. Laugh at a Yankee suitor's rejection, a peed on Southern soldier, terrifying yet comical encounters slaves had with dead persons & live Yankees, & a Reb "Still Holding the Line." Sad tales of cold blooded murder, neighbor against neighbor, burned towns & terrorized citizens, & a Confederate flag in WW II. Under a flavor of the times: women in action, a church that went to war, a ghost story, & vile atrocities. CIVIL WAR TALES, VOL. II; 0-9617898-2-4; $25.95 (even more of a good thing). To order write or call: A & W Enterprise, P.O. Box 8133, Roanoke, VA 24014. Phone: 703-427-1154.
Download or read book The War in Southwest Virginia 1861 65 written by Gary C. Walker and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battles in Culpeper County Virginia 1861 1865 and Other Articles written by Daniel A. Grimsley and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southwest Virginia s Railroad written by Kenneth W. Noe and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close study of one region of Appalachia that experienced economic vitality and strong sectionalism before the Civil War This book examines the construction of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad through southwest Virginia in the 1850s, before the Civil War began. The building and operation of the railroad reoriented the economy of the region toward staple crops and slave labor. Thus, during the secession crisis, southwest Virginia broke with northwestern Virginia and embraced the Confederacy. Ironically, however, it was the railroad that brought waves of Union raiders to the area during the war
Download or read book A Great Civil War written by Russell Frank Weigley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major new interpretation of the events which continue to dominate the American imagination and identity.
Download or read book Battles in Culpeper County Virginia 1861 1865 written by Daniel Amon Grimsley and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seasons of War written by Daniel E. Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culpeper County, Virginia, was occupied by the Northern army, recaptured by the Confederacy, and finally ceded to the North in the course of the Civil War. Told largely through the diaries, papers and correspondence of residents and such personalities as Robert E. Lee and Walt Whitman, this story captures both the intimate and sweeping sides of war. photos.
Download or read book The Popular History of the Civil War in America 1861 1865 written by George B. Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theater of a Separate War written by Thomas W. Cutrer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the Trans-Mississippi Theater was site of major clashes from the war's earliest days through the surrenders of Confederate generals Edmund Kirby Smith and Stand Waite in June 1865. In this comprehensive military history of the war west of the Mississippi River, Thomas W. Cutrer shows that the theater's distance from events in the East does not diminish its importance to the unfolding of the larger struggle.
Download or read book The Civil War in Wise County Virginia written by Wise County Historical Society (Wise County, Va.) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of the War of 1861 1865 written by Philip Francis Brown and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War in Cabell County West Virginia written by Joe Geiger and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beleaguered Winchester written by Richard R. Duncan and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, the strategically located town of Winchester, Virginia, suffered from the constant turmoil of military campaigning perhaps more than any other town. Occupied dozens of times by alternating Union and Confederate forces, Winchester suffered through three major battles, including some seventy smaller skirmishes. In his voluminous community study of the town over the course of four tumultuous years, Richard R. Duncan shows that in many ways Winchester's history provides a paradigm of the changing nature of the war. Indeed, Duncan reveals how the town offers a microcosm of the war: slavery collapsed, women assumed control in the absence of men, and civilians vied for authority alongside an assortment of revolving military commanders. Control over Winchester was vital for both the North and the South. Confederates used it as a base to strike the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and conduct raids into western Maryland and Pennsylvania, and when Federal forces occupied the town, they threatened Staunton -- Lee's breadbasket -- and the Virginia Central Railroad. At various times during the war, generals "Stonewall" Jackson, Nathaniel Banks, Robert Milroy, Richard Ewell, Jubal Early, and Philip Sheridan each controlled the town. Guerrilla activity further compounded the region's strife as insecurity became the norm for its civilian population. In this first scholarly treatment of occupied Winchester, Duncan has compiled a narrative of voices from the entire community, including those of groups often omitted from such studies, such as slaves, women, and Confederate dissenters. He shows how Federal occupation meant an early end to slavery in Winchester and how the paucity of men left women to serve as the major cohesive force in the community, making them a bulwark of Confederate support. He also explores the tensions between civilians and military personnel that inevitably arose as each group sought to protect its interests. The war, Duncan explains, left Winchester a landscape of wreckage and economic loss. A fascinating case study of civilian survival amid the turmoil of war, Beleaguered Winchester will appeal to Civil War scholars and enthusiasts alike.
Download or read book The Story of a Great Conflict a History of the War of Secession written by Rossiter Johnson and published by New York, Bryan, Taylor & Company. This book was released on 1894 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands 1861 1867 written by Andrew E. Masich and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still the least-understood theater of the Civil War, the Southwest Borderlands saw not only Union and Confederate forces clashing but Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos struggling for survival, power, and dominance on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. While other scholars have examined individual battles, Andrew E. Masich is the first to analyze these conflicts as interconnected civil wars. Based on previously overlooked Indian Depredation Claim records and a wealth of other sources, this book is both a close-up history of the Civil War in the region and an examination of the war-making traditions of its diverse peoples. Along the border, Masich argues, the Civil War played out as a collision between three warrior cultures. Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos brought their own weapons and tactics to the struggle, but they also shared many traditions. Before the war, the three groups engaged one another in cycles of raid and reprisal involving the taking of livestock and human captives, reflecting a peculiar mixture of conflict and interdependence. When U.S. regular troops were withdrawn in 1861 to fight in the East, the resulting power vacuum led to unprecedented violence in the West. Indians fought Indians, Hispanos battled Hispanos, and Anglos vied for control of the Southwest, while each group sought allies in conflicts related only indirectly to the secession crisis. When Union and Confederate forces invaded the Southwest, Anglo soldiers, Hispanos, and sedentary Indian tribes forged alliances that allowed them to collectively wage a relentless war on Apaches, Comanches, and Navajos. Mexico’s civil war and European intervention served only to enlarge the conflict in the borderlands. When the fighting subsided, a new power hierarchy had emerged and relations between the region’s inhabitants, and their nations, forever changed. Masich’s perspective on borderlands history offers a single, cohesive framework for understanding this power shift while demonstrating the importance of transnational and multicultural views of the American Civil War and the Southwest Borderlands.
Download or read book Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia 1861 1865 written by Carlton McCarthy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...]be over, and then the remembrance of your hardships will sweeten the joy of peace. 2. The rules of war require prompt and unquestioning obedience. You may sometimes think the command arbitrary and the officer supercilious, but it is yours to obey. An undisciplined army is a curse to its friends and a derision to its foes. Give your whole influence, therefore, to the maintenance of lawful authority and of strict order. Let your superiors feel assured that whatever they entrust to you will be faithfully done. Composed of such soldiers, and led by skillful and brave commanders, our army, by the blessing of God, will never be defeated. It is, moreover, engaged in a holy cause, and must triumph.[...]."
