The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia

by Brian Steel Wills

Book Overview

In 1863 Confederate forces under Lieutenant General James Longstreet, while scouring Southside Virginia for badly needed supplies, threatened the Union garrison in Suffolk. For the residents of surrounding Nansemond, Isle of Wight, and Southampton Counties, the Suffolk campaign followed an exhausting and deadly pattern. Already subjected to the demands of waves of soldiers, first Southern recruits and then Union occupation troops, the people of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813940605
• ISBN13: 9780813940601
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher