In this Virginia History Blog on Reconstruction Virginia, we look at the aftermath of the Civil War conflict. Nation Building in Reconstruction Virginia. “Wars within a War” describes the controversy and conflict that emerged after the end of regular army hostilities. “This Republic of Suffering” accounts for how the survivors of the Civil War carnage...
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In this Virginia History Blog, we look at elements of the Virginia Antebellum society. Progress in a slave society is examined in “Railroads in the Old South”. White male culture is explored in “Military Education and the Emerging Middle Class” and in Brothers of a Vow” about secret fraternal orders. The slaveholder’s perspective of slavery...
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In this five-part review of Civil War Era literature at the Virginia History Blog, we will take a look at period topics in politics, war commands, home front, economy, slavery and memory. Turning to memory, we begin with “Diehard Rebels” describing the outlook and later influence of soldiers defending the Confederacy to the end. “Burying...
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In this Virginia History Blog, we look at recent journal reviews concerning the Civil War Era. The commander featured is Robert E. Lee in “The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee”. Combat is represented in “The First Republican Army” about the western Virginia politically motivated Federal army, and “The Guerrilla Hunters” treating the Confederate Ranger...
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In this recap of the Civil War and Reconstruction Virginia, we begin with two titles addressing the role of slaves in the Civil War, first from a Union perspective in “The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation”, then from the rebel point of view in “Confederate Slave Impressment”. Two social histories chronicling the immediate...
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In our blog on Reconstruction in Virginia part two, we begin looking at the passage of the 14th amendment in the former Confederate states in”No Easy Walk to Freedom”. The development of social, economic and political community in black Hampton, Virginia is described in “Freedom’s First Generation”. And race as a social construction is explored...
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We begin Reconstruction in Virginia part one with a survey of the period, 1863-1877 in “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution”. Virginia’s Reconstruction was extended by Readjusters to 1883 as described in “Two Paths to the New South”. The politics of race in post emancipation Virginia is studied in “Before Jim Crow”. “Shattered Nation” investigates the intellectual...
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