Virginia's Civil War
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2005
University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2005
Conference papers and proceedings
xii, 303 p. ; 24 cm.
9780813923154, 0813923158
1170123232
Derived from a select group of papers delivered at the Virginia Civil War conference at the University of Richmond in February 2002