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Author : Irving Stoddard Kull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Causes for the Secession of Virginia written by Irving Stoddard Kull and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beverley Bland Munford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession written by Beverley Bland Munford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1909 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is designed as a contribution to the volume of information from which the historian of the future will be able to prepare an impartial and comprehensive narrative of the American Civil War, or to speak more accurately-The American War of Secession. No attempt has been made to present the causes which precipitated the secession of the Cotton States, nor the states which subsequently adopted the same policy, except Virginia. Even in regard to that commonwealth the effort has been limited to the consideration of two features prominent in the public mind as constituting the most potent factors in determining her action-namely, devotion to slavery and hostility to the Union. That the people of Virginia were moved to secession by a selfish desire to extend or maintain the institution of slavery, or from hostility to the Union, are propositions seemingly at variance with their whole history and the interests which might naturally have controlled them in the hour of separation.
Author : Cynthia Nicoletti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108415520
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Secession on Trial written by Cynthia Nicoletti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the treason trial of President Jefferson Davis, where the question of secession's constitutionality was debated.
Author : Charles B. Dew
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813939453
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Apostles of Disunion written by Charles B. Dew and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our great national crisis. The fifteen years since the original publication of Apostles of Disunion have seen an intensification of debates surrounding the Confederate flag and Civil War monuments. In a powerful new afterword to this anniversary edition, Dew situates the book in relation to these recent controversies and factors in the role of vast financial interests tied to the internal slave trade in pushing Virginia and other upper South states toward secession and war.
Author : Eric J. Wittenberg
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611215072
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Seceding from Secession written by Eric J. Wittenberg and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thoroughly researched [and] historically enlightening” account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia split in two in the midst of war (Civil War News). “West Virginia was the child of the storm.” —Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran Maj. Theodore F. Lang As the Civil War raged, the northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union’s 35th state. Seceding from Secession chronicles those events in an unprecedented study of the social, legal, military, and political factors that converged to bring about the birth of West Virginia. President Abraham Lincoln, an astute lawyer in his own right, played a critical role in birthing the new state. The constitutionality of the mechanism by which the new state would be created concerned the president, and he polled every member of his cabinet before signing the bill. Seceding from Secession includes a detailed discussion of the 1871 U.S. Supreme Court decision Virginia v. West Virginia, in which former Lincoln cabinet member Salmon Chase presided as chief justice over the court that decided the constitutionality of the momentous event. Grounded in a wide variety of sources and including a foreword by Frank J. Williams, former Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and Chairman Emeritus of the Lincoln Forum, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in American history.
Author : Steven M. Meyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Slavery, Subjugation, and Secession written by Steven M. Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although contemporary views of the causes for southern states seceding from the United States during the Civil War center on slavery, the author concentrates on the secessions of Virginia and South Carolina as examples that the causes were varied.
Author : Henry Thomas Shanks
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Secession Movement in Virginia, 1847-1861 written by Henry Thomas Shanks and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beverley Bland Munford
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230253374
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession written by Beverley Bland Munford and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... PART IV THE ATTEMPT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO COERCE THE COTTON STATES--THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF VIRGINIA'S SECESSION The Coercion Of The Cotton States--Virginia's Position President Lincoln's first inaugural address may be safely reckoned among the most notable of American state papers, both for the purity of diction and the earnest patriotism which pervade it. With a spirit of fraternalism appealing and pathetic, he called upon his countrymen to turn from discord and separation to a new lease of brotherhood and a revival of devotion to the Republic consecrated by the sacrifices and labors of their fathers. The address gave assurance that the Federal Government would respect the rights of the states and individuals in regard to slavery, and that no interest or section would be disturbed in any constitutional right by the incoming administration. Upon the great point, however, as to the policy of the Federal Government in regard to coercing the states which had seceded, the address was held by many to be fairly susceptible of different constructions. Thus the President said: "I, therefore, consider that in view of the constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the states. Doing this I deem to be a simple duty on my part, and I shall perform it so far as practicable unless my rightful masters, the American People, shall withhold the requisite means, or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary." 264 PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S FIRST INAUGURAL It must be remembered that at the time these words were uttered the seven Cotton States had withdrawn from the Union; had organized...
Author : Virginia Education
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ISBN 13 : 9781503243972
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (439 download)
Download or read book The Causes and Outbreak of the War Between the States: written by Virginia Education and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a synopsis of the conditions existing in the state of Virginia at the beginning of the war. It is intended to answer fully and finally the question, "Why did Virginia secede?" An answer to this question, to a certain extent, determines the right of Virginians to a place among patriots.It presents a clear and concise understanding of the issues involved. The quotations include some statements so simple that a little child may understand them, but the book is not intended primarily for children. It is hoped that readers will find in it material to use in inculcating love of home and country, The book is the result of the combined wisdom of Confederate veterans, professors of history, and students of political science. It includes a play that school students may present, which explains and illustrates the session crisis in Virginia. It was originally published by the Virginia Department of Public Education, State of Virginia, in 1912. It remains a classic book to teach the Southern perspective of the war. It gives the proceedings of the outcome of the Virginia Secession Convention, and the nomination of Robert E. Lee as the leader of the armies of Virginia in addition to his acceptance speech. A good book of primary resource material for reports, yet very readable material for both adults and the intermediate grades.
Author : Brent Tarter
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937108
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Daydreams and Nightmares written by Brent Tarter and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and one that has typically been told on a grand scale. In Daydreams and Nightmares, however, historian Brent Tarter shares the story of one Virginia family who found themselves in the middle of the secession debate and saw their world torn apart as the states chose sides and went to war. George Berlin was elected to serve as a delegate to the Virginia Convention of 1861 as an opponent of secession, but he ultimately changed his vote. Later, when defending his decision in a speech in his hometown of Buckhannon, Upshur County, he had to flee for his safety as Union soldiers arrived. Berlin and his wife, Susan Holt Berlin, were separated for extended periods--both during the convention and, later, during the early years of the Civil War. The letters they exchanged tell a harrowing story of uncertainty and bring to life for the modern reader an extended family that encompassed both Confederate and Union sympathizers. This is in part a love story. It is also a story about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. Although unique in its vividly evoked details, the Berlins’ story is representative of the drama endured by millions of Americans. Composed during the nightmare of civil war, the Berlins’ remarkably articulate letters express the dreams of reunion and a secure future felt throughout the entire, severed nation. In this intimate, evocative, and often heartbreaking family story, we see up close the personal costs of our larger national history. A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War
Author : William A. Link
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863203
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Roots of Secession written by William A. Link and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-01-21 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War. An upper South state with nearly half a million slaves--more than any other state in the nation--and some 50,000 free blacks, Virginia witnessed a uniquely volatile convergence of slave resistance and electoral politics in the 1850s. While masters struggled with slaves, disunionists sought to join a regionwide effort to secede and moderates sought to protect slavery but remain in the Union. Arguing for a definition of political action that extends beyond the electoral sphere, Link shows that the coming of the Civil War was directly connected to Virginia's system of slavery, as the tension between defiant slaves and anxious slaveholders energized Virginia politics and spurred on the impending sectional crisis.
Author : Edward L. Ayers
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813925523
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Crucible of the Civil War written by Edward L. Ayers and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serving both as home to the Confederacy's capital, Richmond, and as the war's primary battlefield, Virginia held a unique place in the American Civil War, while also witnessing the privations and hardships that marked life in all corners of the Confederacy. Yet despite an overwhelming literature on the battles that raged across the state and the armies and military leaders involved, few works have examined Virginia as a distinctive region during the conflict. In Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration, Edward L. Ayers, Gary W. Gallagher, and Andrew J. Torget, together with other scholars, offer an illuminating portrait of the state's wartime economic, political, and social institutions. Weighing in on contentious issues within established scholarship while also breaking ground in areas long neglected by scholars, several of the essays examine such concerns as the war's effect on slavery in the state, the wartime intersection of race and religion, and the development of Confederate social networks. Other contributions shed light on topics long disputed by historians, such as Virgina's decision to secede from the Union, the development of Confederate nationalism, and how Virginians chose to remember the war after its close. For anyone interested in Virginia during the Civil War, this book offers new ways to approach the study of the most important state in the Confederacy during the bloodiest war in American history.
Author : Edward L. Ayers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393285154
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History written by Edward L. Ayers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extremely good writer, [Ayers] is well worth reading . . . on the South and Southern history.”—Stephen Sears, Boston Globe The Southern past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of history. Peculiarities of tragic proportions—a system of slavery flourishing in a land of freedom, secession and Civil War tearing at a federal Union, deep poverty persisting in a nation of fast-paced development—have fed the imaginations of some of our most accomplished historians. Foremost in their ranks today is Edward L. Ayers, author of the award-winning and ongoing study of the Civil War in the heart of America, the Valley of the Shadow Project. In wide-ranging essays on the Civil War, the New South, and the twentieth-century South, Ayers turns over the rich soil of Southern life to explore the sources of the nation's and his own history. The title essay, original here, distills his vast research and offers a fresh perspective on the nation's central historical event.
Author : Taliaferro Preston Shaffner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book The War in America written by Taliaferro Preston Shaffner and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William W. Freehling
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813929911
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Showdown in Virginia written by William W. Freehling and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1861, Virginians confronted destiny—their own and their nation’s. Pivotal decisions awaited about secession, the consequences of which would unfold for a hundred years and more. But few Virginians wanted to decide at all. Instead, they talked, almost interminably. The remarkable record of the Virginia State Convention, edited in a fine modern version in 1965, runs to almost 3,000 pages, some 1.3 million words. Through the diligent efforts of William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson, this daunting record has now been made accessible to teachers, students, and general readers. With important contextual contributions—an introduction and commentary, chronology, headnotes, and suggestions for further reading—the essential core of the speeches, and what they signified, is now within reach. This is a collection of speeches by men for whom everything was at risk. Some saw independence and even war as glory; others predicted ruin and devastation. They all offered commentary of lasting interest to anyone concerned about the fate of democracy in crisis.
Author : Robert J Cook
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 142140897X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Secession Winter written by Robert J Cook and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three historians examine what drove southern secession in the winter of 1860-1861 and why it culminated in the American Civil War. Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays by three senior historians in Secession Winter explore the robust debates that preceded these events. For five months in the winter of 1860–1861, Americans did not know for certain that civil war was upon them. Some hoped for a compromise; others wanted a fight. Many struggled to understand what was happening to their country. Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney, and Elizabeth R. Varon take approaches to this period that combine political, economic, and social-cultural lines of analysis. Rather than focus on whether civil war was inevitable, they look at the political process of secession and find multiple internal divisions—political parties, whites and nonwhites, elites and masses, men and women. Even individual northerners and southerners suffered inner conflicts. The authors include the voices of Unionists and Whig party moderates who had much to lose and upcountry folk who owned no slaves and did not particularly like those who did. Barney contends that white southerners were driven to secede by anxiety and guilt over slavery. Varon takes a new look at Robert E. Lee’s decision to join the Confederacy. Cook argues that both northern and southern politicians claimed the rightness of their cause by constructing selective narratives of historical grievances.
Author : Thomas Rittenburg
Publisher : Mariner Companies, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780980007763
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Compelled to Fight written by Thomas Rittenburg and published by Mariner Companies, Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rittenburg examines the causes of the Civil War as seen by Rockbridge County, Virginia, a microcosm of antebellum Virginia. He touches upon why Union-loving people in the most critical Southern border state abandoned hope of compromise and cast their lot with the slaveholding South.
