Posted on April 16, 2008 by cenantua
I realized that I should have included this with my earlier posts about the vote for secession in the Shenandoah Valley. This is a record of the vote from Virginia’s Secession Convention. Keep in mind that these votes were made on April 4 and April 17 respectively. The public vote on secession did not come [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General | Tagged: Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, Alfred M. Barbour, Algernon Sidney Gray, Allen C. Hammond, April 17 1861, April 4 1861, Augusta County, Berkeley County, Clarke County, Edmund Pendleton, Frederick County, George Baylor, Hugh Mortimer Nelson, James Baldwin Dorman, Jefferson County, John Brown Baldwin, John Francis Lewis, Members of the Virginia Convention of 1861, Osburn Logan, Page County, Peter B. Borst, Raphael Morgan Conn, Robert H. Turner, Robert Young Conrad, Rockbridge County, Rockingham County, Samuel Augustus Coffman, Samuel Crousden Williams, Samuel McDowell Moore, Shenandoah County, Virginia, Virginia Secession Convention of 1861, Warren County, West Virginia | No Comments »
Posted on April 14, 2008 by cenantua
I didn’t learn about Edwin Arthur Emerson until about a year or so ago. I think the thing that most intrigued me was that, while I had been fascinated with the soldier family members who had served in the war, I did not realize that I had a family member present, on stage, on the [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Ancestral tidbits, Civil War Memory - General, Reflections on "personal memory" of the Civil War | Tagged: 17th Virginia Infantry, 33rd Virginia Infantry, 3rd Maryland Cavalry (US), 7th Virginia Cavalry, Abraham Lincoln, Actress Si Snider, Alexandria, Edwin Arthur Emerson, Emerald Grays, Florence Trenchard, Ford Stock Company, Ford's Theatre, Frayser's Farm, Harrison A. Emmerson, Henry K. Emerson, Jeff Davis, Jennie Gourlay, John Simpson Emmerson, John Wilkes Booth, Laura Keene, Lincoln assasination, Lord Dundreary, Massanutten Rangers, Our American Cousin, Page County, Theatre Magazine, Vicksburg, Virginia, William W. Emmerson | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 8, 2008 by cenantua
The following table specifies the number of votes cast in the three elections from 1856-1860 and the referendum vote on secession in 1861. I’ll comment more on this later. However, with a quick glance at the difference between numbers of voters in 1860 and 1861, in most cases (Rockingham and Shenandoah counties being the exception) [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: 1856, 1859, 1860, 1861, Augusta County, Berkeley County, Clarke County, Frederick County, Jefferson County, number of votes cast in the Shenandoah Valley from 1856, Page County, Rockbridge County, Rockingham County, Shenandoah County, Shenandoah Valley, total number of voters in referendum for secession, Virginia, Warren County, West Virginia | No Comments »
Posted on April 4, 2008 by cenantua
Since I’m unable to find the next set of stats that I had planned to post today, I figured that this was a good opportunity to pause a bit and reflect on what I’ve put online and what is yet to come.
About two years ago, when I was compiling data for my thesis, I looked [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General | Tagged: 1859 gubernatorial vote in Virginia, 1860 presidential vote in Virginia, chaos theory, Civil War memory, Confederacy, Confederate deserters, Culpeper County, Daniel E. Sutherland, Guerrillas Unionists and Violence on the Confederate Ho, hypertext theory, Page County, referendum, secession, Shenandoah Valley, Solid South, Southern Claims Commission, Southern Loyalist Claims, Southern Unionists, Stonewall Jackson, Union armies | No Comments »
Posted on April 3, 2008 by cenantua
While the referendum vote on secession for the different counties of the Shenandoah Valley may reflect one thing (most especially to someone who doesn’t look beyond raw numbers), deeper probing into other numbers brings about a need to investigate even further. That said, the following is submitted for consideration in combination with my post from [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General | Tagged: Augusta County, Berkeley County, Clarke County, footnote.com, Frederick County, Jefferson County, Page County, referendum, Rockbridge County, Rockingham County, secession, Shenandoah County, Southern Claims Commission, Southern Unionists, Valley of the Shadow, Virginia, Warren County, West Virginia | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 2, 2008 by cenantua
Considering I brought up the use of coercion in the referendum for secession in Virginia (and more specifically in Page County in the Shenandoah Valley) in yesterday’s post, I thought it might be interesting to ride with this topic a little more. Today, I’m laying out the raw numbers on the referendum for all of [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General | Tagged: Augusta County, Berkeley County, Clarke County, coercion, Frederick County, Gods & Generals, Jefferson County, Page County, referendum on secession, Rockbridge County, Rockingham County, Shenandoah County, Shenandoah Valley, Warren County, West Virginia | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 1, 2008 by cenantua
I can’t help but think of that scene in Gods & Generals when it came to the vote for secession in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Some may remember it, where the actor playing William Nelson Pendleton announced the vote and that there had been only one vote against secession in the county (after which, a person [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General, Re-inventing memory of the Civil War | Tagged: Abraham Lincoln, coerced vote for secession, coercion, fear, Gods & Generals, James C. Robertson, John Inscoe, Joseph Miller, Joseph Painter, Martin Ellis, Martin Hite, Morgan M. Price, Page County, referendum for secession, Rockbridge County, Samuel Varner, Shenandoah Valley, Southern Loyalist Claims, William H. Sours, William Nelson Pendleton | 4 Comments »
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