The book Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery And Secession was written by author Beverley B Beverley Bland Munford Here you can read free online of Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery And Secession book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery And Secession a good or bad book?
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156 SLAVEHOLDERS AMONG THE LEADERS Dr. Hunter McGuire, the medical director of the Stone- wall Brigade, has left on record his estimate of the number of slaveholders in the ranks of that command — which, being drawn from all portions of the state, was more representative of the citizenship of Virginia, East and West: "The Stonewall Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia," writes Dr. McGuire, "was a fighting organiza- tion. I knew every man in it, for I belonged to it for a long time; and I kn...ow that I am in proper bounds when I assert, that there was not one soldier in thirty who owned or ever expected to own a slave." 1 But it is also urged that, while men without slaves filled the ranks of the Virginia regiments, yet slaveholders led these soldiers into battle as they had led the people into revolution. It is obviously impracticable to present the facts with reference to each one of the prominent leaders which Virginia gave to the armies of the Confederacy. By universal accord her five most notable generals were, Robert E.
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