An illuminatine portrait of Virginia's wartime economic, political, and social institutions for the state which was both the home to the Confederacy's capital, and the primary battlefield of the Civil War.

Unions of slavery : slavery, politics, and secession in the Valley of Virginia /Andrew J. Torget -- "I owe Virginia little, my country much" : Robert E. Lee, the United States Regular Army, and unconditional unionism / Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh -- "It is old Virginia and we must have it" : overcoming regionalism in Civil War Virginia / Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- Defining Confederate respectability : morality, patriotism, and Confederate identity in Richmond's Civil War public press / Amy R. Minton -- The slave market in Civil War Virginia / Jaime Amanda Martinez -- Race, religion, and rebellion : black and white Baptists in Albemarle County, Virginia, during the Civil War / Andrew Witmer -- "The right to love and to mourn" : the origins of Virginia's Ladies' Memorial associations, 1865-1867 / Caroline E. Janney -- Reconciliation in Reconstruction Virginia / Susanna Michele Lee.