MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009030984
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008 090728s2010 vaub b s000 0deng
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245 00 $aShowdown in Virginia :$bthe 1861 convention and the fate of the Union /$cedited by William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson.
260 $aCharlottesville :$bUniversity of Virginia Press,$c2010.
300 $axxvi, 210 p. :$bmap ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aChronology -- Map of Virginia in 1861 -- pt. 1. Secession debated -- Jeremiah Morton's Secessionist speech, February 28 -- Waitman Willey's Unionist speech, March 4 -- John Carlile's Unionist speech, March 7 -- George Brent's Unionist speech, March 8 -- George Summers's Unionist speech, March 12 -- George Wythe Randolph's Secessionist speech, March 16 -- James Holcombe's Secessionist speech, March 20 -- John Baldwin's Unionist speech, March 21-23 -- Hugh Nelson's Unionist speech, March 26 -- Thomas Flournoy's Unionist speech, March 30 -- James Barbour's Secessionist speech, March 30-April 1 -- Robert Montague's Secessionist speech, April 1-2 -- George Richardson's Secessionist speech, April 3-4 -- Chapman Stuart's Unionist speech, April 5.
505 0 $apt. 2. Taxation debated -- William G. Brown initiates the taxation debate, March 7 -- Waitman Willey introduces his motion, March 16 -- The confrontation that Willey's motion provoked, March 18-19 -- William G. Brown -- Miers Fisher -- Benjamin Wilson -- Thomas Branch -- Allen Taylor Caperton -- Marmaduke Johnson -- Samuel Woods -- Willey's climactic taxation speech, March 28 and April 2 -- The final presecession confrontation on taxation, April 10-11 -- Henry Wise -- Cyrus Hall -- Williams C. Wickham -- Willey's motion adopted, April 11.
505 0 $apt. 3. Decisions -- The quest for Lincoln's intentions, Saturday, April 6 -- William Ballard Preston's initiative -- Virginia's division foreshadowed -- The beginning of the end, April 13 -- Jubal Early's ironic appeal -- The Early-Goode near duel -- Decision barely averted, Monday, April 15 -- Robert Scott's new Unionist strategy -- Henry Wise's pro salute populi -- John Baldwin's desperation for delay -- Eve of decision, Tuesday, April 16 -- George Wythe Randolph's militarism -- Alexander H.H. Stuart's open-ended Unionism -- Even the trans-Allegheny divided : John Jackson again answers William Ballard Preston -- Robert Scott versus George Wythe Randolph -- Waitman Willey's and Jubal Early's alarm -- Samuel Staples versus John Baldwin -- The Convention's secession ordinance adopted, April 17 -- Alpheus Haymond's plea -- John Hughes's conversion -- Chapman Stuart's warning -- Henry Wise's strike and John Baldwin's outrage -- The climactic Wise-Baldwin debate, April 17 -- The Clarksburg call, April 22 -- The Convention's ad valorem taxation ordinance adopted, April 26 -- Popular decisions in May.
651 0 $aVirginia$xPolitics and government$y1861-1865$vSources.
650 0 $aSecession$zVirginia$vSources.
650 0 $aTaxation$zVirginia$xHistory$y19th century$vSources.
650 0 $aSpeeches, addresses, etc., American$zVirginia.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1861-1865$vSources.
700 1 $aFreehling, William W.,$d1935-
700 1 $aSimpson, Craig M.,$d1942-