Rending of Virginia
A History
When Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861, its western residents were outraged and formed a separate state two years later, introducing political upheaval into already tumultuous times. Men like Granville Davisson Hall sought to throw off the shackles of a slaveholding aristocracy and to revitalize their region's economy in the process. Hall's account of those events, which first appeared when the birth of West Virginia was still a living memory, takes modern readers back to those turbulent days. An active participant in the statehood movement and West Virginia's second secretary of state, Hall recorded all the proceedings of the loyalist…
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- ISBN: 978-1-57233-070-2
- EAN: 9781572330702
- Produktnummer: 1483050
- Verlag: University of Tennessee Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 644 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B14.1 cm x D4.5 cm 925 g
- Gewicht: 925
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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