Unionists in Virginia : politics, secession and their plan to prevent civil war /

Whether the Civil War was preventable is a debate that began shortly after Appomattox and continues today. But even earlier, in 1861, a group of Union-loyal Virginians, led by George Summers, John Brown Baldwin, John Janney and Jubal Early, felt war was avoidable. In the statewide election for deleg...

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