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By William C. Davis,James I. Jr. Robertson,Richard J. Sommers,Aaron Sheehan-Dean,Ted Tunnell,Ginette Aley,Peter Wallenstein,Jared Bond,Bradford A. Wineman,J. Michael Cobb

The fourth publication within the Virginia at warfare sequence casts a unique mild on very important domestic entrance issues in Virginia in the course of 1864. Following a 12 months within which just one significant conflict used to be fought on Virginia soil, 1864 introduced army campaigning to the previous Dominion. For the 1st time in the course of the Civil struggle, the vast majority of Virginia's forces fought contained in the state's borders. but squaddies have been a different minority one of the Virginians stricken by the battle. In Virginia at warfare, 1864, students discover numerous points of the civilian event in Virginia together with transportation and conversation, wartime literature, politics and the clicking, larger schooling, patriotic celebrations, and early efforts at reconstruction in Union-occupied Virginia. the quantity specializes in the results of conflict at the civilian infrastructure in addition to efforts to take care of the Confederacy. As in past volumes, the publication concludes with an edited and annotated excerpt of the Judith Brockenbrough McGuire diary.

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