Virginia's Civil War

Peter Wallenstein, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Richard J Milbauer Professor of History Bertram Wyatt-Brown

University of Virginia Press, 2005 - History - 303 pages

The twenty essays collected here explore the Virginia story throughout the Civil War era. Some contributors examine Robert E. Lee and the issues confronting his men, such as soldier morale and religious conversion. Others emphasize the wartime home front--in some cases reexamining its connection with the battlefront--or explore questions of gender, race, or religion. Several essays extend the story into the postwar years and consider various Virginia individuals or groups in the context of the conflict's aftermath. Building on current knowledge, but often contesting conventional thinking, the essays give the most comprehensive view yet of Civil War Virginia and suggest avenues of inquiry that remain to be explored.

Contributors: Ian Binnington * Theodore C. DeLaney * Michael Fellman * Lisa Tendrich Frank * Monte Hampton * Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh * Charles F. Irons * Caroline E. Janney * Suzanne W. Jones * Ervin L. Jordan Jr. * Charles Joyner * Daniel Kilbride * Susanna Michele Lee * Lucinda H. MacKethan * John M. McClure * Amy Feely Morsman * Jason Phillips * David G. Smith * Emory M. Thomas * Peter Wallenstein * Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Robert E Lee in the American Mind: 9
• Myth and Man: 19
• Robert E Lee and the Concept of Honor: 28
• The Enduring Enigma: 45
• Virginians on the Grand: 61
• The Religious Roots: 72
• Baptists and War: 87
• For the Smiles: 101
• The Southern: 114
• Confederate Women: 123
• The Capture of African Americans: 137
• AfroVirginians: 152
• A Georgia Slave: 165
• Interracial Love Virginians Lies and Donald McCaigs: 176
• AFTER THE: 187
• William Pattie and the Southern: 201
• The Bible the New South: 216
• The Trials of Mrs ExPresident Tyler: 230
• A Postwar: 243
• The Ladies Memorial: 256
• Afterword: 271
• Slave Narratives of Virginias Civil War: 277
• Robert E Lee in Myth and Memory: 285
• Index: 293

About the author

Peter Wallenstein teaches history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is the author of Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History. Bertram Wyatt-Brown is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Florida and is currently a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1880s.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Virginia's Civil War
• Editors: Peter Wallenstein, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Richard J Milbauer Professor of History Bertram Wyatt-Brown
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0813923158, 9780813923154
• Length: 303 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)