ePub The Automobile Gold Rushes and Depression Era Mining (Interest) by Charles W. Miller in History

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In the minds of many people; Virginia is the Civil War; it is the state most closely associated with Conferderate luminaries Lee; Jackson; Stuart; and Mosby and Union leaders Grant; Sheridan; Burnside; McClellan; and Pope. But when Virginia's general assembly voted the state out of the Union; citizens west of the Shenandoah Valley voted themselves out of Virginia; creating the Union state of West Virginia. Touring Virginia's and West Virginia's Civil War Sites covers all the significant sites in both states.The 17 tours visit large and small battlefields; cemetaries; monuments and statues; rivers; and mountains; while sharing the histories behind each location; some surprising and obscure. This latest edition includes updated directions; new photographs for each site; and several new sites--including the Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg; the American Center for the Civil War in Richmond; and the grave of the designer of the Confederate battle flag; William Porcher Miles; in Union; West Virginia.