Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
1. Progressives All
2. United by a Problem
3. Christian Gentlemen
4. Defenders of Virginia, Union, and the South
5. Eager Confederates
6. Paternalistic Officers
7. Christian Martyrs
8. From Conservative Unionism to Old Fogydom
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
Lancelot Minor Blackford
Leisure and Labor, by Francis Blackwell Mayer
Henry Clay Pate
Jubal Anderson Early
High Bridge, Farmville, Virginia
James DeWitt Hankins
Letter from George Washington Nelson to Carter Nelson Minor
University of Virginia campus
Virginia University Magazine
J. E. B. Stuart, George Washington Custis Lee, and Stephen D. Lee
Thomas Jefferson's grave at Monticello
Reprint of excerpt from the Yale Literary Magazine
John H. Chamberlayne
Members of the Southern Guard, University of Virginia
George Junkin
Virginia Military Institute barracks
Greenlee Davidson
Military discipline
Sketches of the Life of Captain Hugh A. White
Walter Taylor
Elizabeth S. "Bettie" Saunders
Virginia Military Institute cadets in Richmond
William R. J. Pegram
Alexander "Sandie" Pendleton
Army of Northern Virginia prayer meeting
John Warwick Daniel
1877 Gettysburg reunion
Map
Counties and Regions of Virginia, 1860