Virginia at War, 1863

Between the epic battles of 1862 and the grueling and violent military campaigns that would follow, the year 1863 was oddly quiet for the Confederate state of Virginia. Only one major battle was fought on its soil, at Chancellorsville, and the conflict was one of the Army of Northern Virginia's greatest victories. Yet the pressures of the Civil War turned the daily lives of Virginians-young and old, men and women, civilians and soldiers-into battles of their own. Despite minimal combat, 1863 was

Author: William C. Davis
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 12/05/2008
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.38w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780813125107

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 12/12/2008 pg. 24

About the Author

William C. Davis, professor of history and director of programs at Virginia Tech's Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, is the author of numerous books, including The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf. James I. Robertson Jr. is Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at Virginia Tech and director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. He is the author of Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend

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