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Both sides expressed sentimental devotion to flag, Constitution, liberty and the American Revolution; Confederates also stressed defense of their hearth and home. Gallagher is a collection of eight essays looking at both traditional and revisionist scholarship with an eye to understanding the Confederate experience with General Robert E.
Gallagher is at pains to consider a variety of viewpoints, using evidence from the Confederates of the time to counter both those who canonize Lee and those who dismiss him. Lee understood mass armies in the 19 th century democratic republic, modern national war as opposed to local conflict, and the implications of military operations on civilian morale.
And while he rejects dismissive analysis by revisionist historians, Gallagher also cautions that Lost Cause distortions of slavery and other matters cannot be swallowed whole. For other book reviews of Virginia histories, see the Book Club here. Like this: Like Loading TVH hopes the website helps in your research; let me know.
Encyclopedia Virginia Grady Ave. Virginia Humanities acknowledges the Monacan Nation , the original people of the land and waters of our home in Charlottesville, Virginia.
We invite you to learn more about Indians in Virginia in our Encyclopedia Virginia. Skip to content. Contributor: Brendan Wolfe. Before the War Daguerreotype of John Brown. A Pike Made for John Brown. Lincoln Campaign Button. War — Richmond Howitzers Knapsack. The Last Meeting. A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Prosthetic Arm. African Americans African American Refugees. End of the War — Union Generals Strategize.
General Robert E. Legacy Instructions on Preserving Racial Integrity. Human Confederate Flag Postcard. Interview with a Member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Arsenal there in an attempt to start a slave rebellion. Five men are killed four white and one black. Lee, capture Brown, who is. December 2, After a gripping trial held in Charles Town in which John Brown is found guilty of conspiracy, of inciting servile insurrection, and of treason against the state, he is hanged.
He wins 1 percent of the vote in Virginia. Breckinridge wins the trans-Allegheny counties of western Virginia. April 12, G. The Union garrison is evacuated the next day. April 15, In response to the firing on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issues a call for 75, troops—2, of which are to come from Virginia—"to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, repel invasions. Thirty-two of the "no" votes come from trans-Allegheny delegates, who are more firmly Unionist than representatives from other parts of the state.
May 23, The Ordinance of Secession is approved by Virginia voters by a vote of , to 20,, with many western Virginia votes being discarded from the tally. May 27, Union general Benjamin F.
Butler, the commander at Fort Monroe, announces that he will not return fugitive slaves to bondage. Fort Monroe becomes known as "Freedom's Fortress," and a steady stream of "contraband" offered wages, food, and shelter, begins work for the Union army. Confederate troops under Joseph E.
Beauregard decisively defeat Union forces commanded by Irvin McDowell. McClellan leads the Army of the Potomac toward the Confederate capital at Richmond from the southeast. April 16, The Confederate Congress passes the first Conscription Act, making all white males between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five eligible to be drafted into military service. This is the first such draft in U.
Lee defeats George B. McClellan in a series of fierce engagements. September 17, In the bloodiest single day of the war, George B. McClellan attacks Confederates under Robert E.
Lee at Antietam Creek in Maryland. The battle ends in a stalemate, but Lee is forced to retreat south to Virginia. December 13, Confederate general Robert E. Burnside and the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Fredericksburg in one of the most lopsided defeats of the war.
January 1, Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring free all enslaved people in Confederate-controlled regions and authorizing the enlistment of Black men in the Union army. Lee and Thomas J. July 1—3, Union general George G.
Meade defeats Robert E. April 7, The Virginia Convention, comprised of seventeen delegates called by the Restored government of Virginia, votes 13 to 4 to adopt the new constitution and consequently to put it in force. May 5—June 3, Ulysses S. Grant, the Union's new general-in-chief, directs the Army of the Potomac south toward Richmond. Bloody and largely inconclusive fights at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, along the North Anna River, and at Cold Harbor result in Grant's army's taking up siege positions before Petersburg.
Forty-seven are wounded and ten killed in the Confederate victory. June 9, Fletcher H. Archer leads his Virginia Reserves in a successful defense of Petersburg against a Union cavalry attack in what comes to be known as the Battle of Old Men and Young Boys. June 11—14, Union general David Hunter's forces shell Lexington and burn the Virginia Military Institute before occupying the town for several days during the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of June 15, —April 2, Union general Ulysses S.
Grant lays siege to Petersburg, south of Richmond, for ten months, finally breaking through Robert E. Lee's lines at the Battle of Five Forks. Petersburg and Richmond immediately fall and Lee retreats to the west.
January 31, The U. Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the U. Constitution by a vote of to The amendment abolishes slavery. Lee loses 20 percent of his army, most of it captured, including nine generals.
April 9, Confederate general Robert E. Grant at Appomattox Court House. August 11, The Colored Shiloh Baptist Association, a union of individual black congregations in central Virginia, is formed and meets in Richmond. July 6, Voters ratify a new state constitution, often called the Underwood Constitution, rejecting separate provisions that would have disfranchised men who had held civil or military office under the Confederacy.
The new constitution supplants the former one, proclaimed on April 7, Lee on October 12, his remains are carried to Lee Chapel where they would lie in state before his burial in the basement vault.
Ayers, Edward L. New York: W. Norton and Company, Blair, William A. New York : Oxford University Press, Carmichael, Peter S. Gallagher, Gary W. The Confederate War. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, Glatthaar, Joseph T. New York: Free Press, Lankford, Nelson D.
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