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Showdown in Virginia : the 1861 convention and the fate of the Union
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- Creator
- edited by William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson
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- Language
- English
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- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xxvi, 210 pages : map ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9786613585905, 0813929644, 9780813929484, 9780813929644, 0813929482, 9780813929910, 1280490675, 0813929911
- OCLC
- ocn759159939, ocn429634770
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210).
- Chronology -- 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
- pt. 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
- pt. 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