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Title Showdown in Virginia : the 1861 convention and the fate of the Union / edited by William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 210 pages) : map
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 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.
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.
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.
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Subject Secession -- Virginia -- Sources.
Secession.
Virginia.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Taxation -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Taxation.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- Virginia.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 -- Sources.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1861-1865
Subject United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 -- Sources.
United States.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Freehling, William W., 1935-
Simpson, Craig M., 1942-
Other Form: Print version: Showdown in Virginia. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010 (DLC) 2009030984
ISBN 9780813929910 (electronic book)
0813929911 (electronic book)
9780813929484 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780813929644 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0813929482 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0813929644 (paperback ; alkaline paper)