Civil War Sites in Virginia

A Tour Guide

James I. Robertson, Brian Steel Wills

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Year: 2011
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780813931302
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Since 1982, the renowned Civil War historian James I. "Bud" Robertson's Civil War Sites in Virginia: A Tour Guide has enlightened and informed Civil War enthusiasts and scholars alike. The book expertly explores the commonwealth's Civil War sites for those hoping to gain greater insight and understanding of the conflict. But in the years since the book's original publication, accessibility to many sites and the interpretive material available have improved dramatically. In addition, new historical markers have been erected, and new historically significant sites have been developed, while other sites have been lost to modern development or other encroachments. The historian Brian Steel Wills offers here a revised and updated edition that retains the core of the original guide, with its rich and insightful prose, but that takes these major changes into account, introducing especially the benefits of expanded interpretation and of improved accessibility. The guide incorporates new information on the lives of a broad spectrum of soldiers and citizens while revisiting scenes associated with the era's most famous personalities. New maps and a list of specialized tour suggestions assist in planning visits to sites, while three dozen illustrations, from nineteenth-century drawings to modern photographs, bring the war and its impact on the Old Dominion vividly to life. With the sesquicentennial remembrances of the American Civil War heightening interest and spurring improvements, there may be no better time to learn about and visit these important and moving sites than now.

Index

Italicized page numbers refer to illustrations.

Abingdon, 103–4, 109

Abingdon Church, 68

Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., quoted, 21

Aldie, 21, 110

Alexandria, 33–37, 35, 107, 108, 110

Alvarez Kelly, 80

Amelia, 90, 112

American Civil War Center, 57, 58

American Red Cross, 40

Amherst, 94, 109

Anderson, Joseph Reid, 57

Appalachian Mountains, 3, 53

Appomattox, 84, 92–94, 93, 112

Appomattox Manor, 64

Appomattox River, 63, 64

Archer’s Hope, 66

Arlington, 37–38, 107, 108; National Cemetery, 36, 37–38, 60, 108

armies: of the James, 63, 111; of Northern Virginia, 3, 19, 27, 50, 112; of the Potomac, 22, 27, 44, 46, 47, 49, 51, 68, 92, 111

Armistead, Lewis Addison, 19

Ashby, Turner, 5, 8, 9; death of, 11, 12

Averell, William Woods, 21, 100

Baker, Laurence Simmons, 77

Ball’s Bluff, 20, 20, 107

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 5

Barton, Clara, 40

Barton, Seth Maxwell, 45

Bath Alum Springs, 14

Bath County, 14, 108

Battery Huger. See Hill’s Point

Battery Wagner, 76

Battle Abbey, 60

“Battle of the Ironclads,” 72, 73

Bedford (Liberty), 95–96, 110; City/County Museum, 96

“Beefsteak Raid,” 80, 80, 84, 110

Belle Grove, 7

Belle Isle, 61

Berkeley Plantation, 65

Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 55, 62–63

Big Bethel, 72, 73, 107

“Black Horse Cavalry,” 22

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments for the Revised Edition
• Northwestern Virginia
• North Central Virginia
• Northeastern Virginia
• Southeastern Virginia
• South Central Virginia
• Southwestern Virginia
• Specialized Tour Suggestions
• Index
• Illustration Credits