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An Encyclopedia of Early Civil War Virginia

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Welcome to Spirit of '61, an encyclopedia of early Civil War Virginia! This website is a work in progress, and I'll be adding new articles and updating old articles regularly with new information and multimedia. I've created the first few pages based on my previous writing: First Battle of Fairfax Court HouseBattle of PhilippiBattle of…

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Updates

  • Letcher and Pierpont on Virginia’s Road to Secession
  • Virginia Governor John Letcher’s January 7, 1861 Address to the Senate and House of Delegates
  • Virginia’s Anti-Coercion Resolution, January 7, 1861
  • Letter from Henry A. Wise to Thomas P. McCandlish, May 26, 1861
  • Let’s Discuss Virginia 1861 on the Emerging Civil War Podcast
  • When and How Did Henry A. Wise Enter the Fight?

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  • American Battlefield Trust
  • Emerging Civil War
  • Shenandoah Valley Battlefields
  • Central Virginia Battlefields Trust
  • First Bull Run UK
  • Rich Mountain Battlefield Foundation
  • Friends of Laurel Hill Battlefield
  • West Virginia in the Civil War
  • Civil War Trails

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  • Home
  • About
  • Donate
  • Blog
  • Battles
    • Chesapeake Front
      • Gloucester Point
      • Sewell’s Point
      • Pig Point
      • New Market Bridge
      • Big Bethel
      • Carter’s Creek
      • Smith’s Farm
      • Cedar Lane
    • Ohio Front
      • Fetterman
      • Glover’s Gap
      • Philippi
      • Righter’s House
      • Buckhannon
      • Bowman’s Place
      • Middle Fork Bridge
      • Belington or Laurel Hill
      • Glenville
      • Rich Mountain
      • Corrick’s Ford
      • Barboursville
      • Pocatalico
      • Scary Creek
      • Greenbrier River
    • Potomac Front
      • Aquia Creek
      • Cloud’s Mill
      • Fairfax Court House
      • Romney
      • Vienna
      • Bridge No. 21
      • Dan’s Run and Kelley’s Island
      • Mathias Point
      • Pike’s Creek
      • Hoke’s Run or Falling Waters
      • Harper’s Ferry
      • Martinsburg
      • New Creek and Piedmont
      • Bunker Hill
      • Farr’s Crossroads
      • Blackburn’s Ford
  • Personalities
    • Union
      • Benjamin F. Butler
      • Benjamin F. Kelley
      • Francis H. Pierpont
      • George B. McClellan
      • Irvin McDowell
      • Jacob D. Cox
      • James H. Ward
      • Lewis “Lew” Wallace
      • Orlando B. Willcox
      • Robert L. McCook
      • Robert Patterson
      • Thomas A. Morris
      • William S. Rosecrans
    • Confederate
      • Angus W. McDonald
      • Daniel Ruggles
      • George A. Porterfield
      • Henry A. Wise
      • John Letcher
      • John B. Magruder
      • Joseph E. Johnston
      • Milledge Luke Bonham
      • Philip St. George Cocke
      • Robert E. Lee
      • Robert S. Garnett
      • Theophilus H. Holmes
      • Thomas J. Jackson
  • Timeline
  • Resources
    • Our Publications
    • Reports, Letters, & Telegrams
    • Artifacts
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