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  Virginia at War, 1861
Edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr.
Price: $35.00
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More Civil War battles were fought in Virginia than in any other Confederate state. No state suffered more from invasion and occupation than did the Old Dominion, and none witnessed as much of the war. Virginia's story stands unique among the Confederate States.
Virginia at War, 1861 looks at the commonwealth 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 navy, as well as the influence that secession and the first year of the war had on Virginia's black community, both enslaved 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. Each volume will bring together leading Civil War historians to study one year of the Civil War in Virginia.
256 pages, hardcover, ISBN 0-8131-2372-0, University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
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