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The governor's pawns : hostages and hostage-taking in Civil War West Virginia
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The governor's pawns : hostages and hostage-taking in Civil War West Virginia / Randall S. Gooden.
ISBN
9781606354575
1606354574
9781631015113
9781631015120
Publication
Kent, Ohio : the Kent State University Pess, [2023]
Physical Description
xxi, 250 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Summary
"While the taking of hostages by both the Union and the Confederacy was common during the Civil War, it was unique for an individual state government to engage in this practice. The Governor's Pawns highlights the implementation of a hostage law established by Virginia's pro-Union government in 1863 and the adoption of that law by the newly formed state of West Virginia. Author Randall Gooden uses genealogical sources to emphasize the personal nature of civilian arrests and hostage-taking and describes the impact on the communities and individuals left scarred by this practice. Readers are taken into the state and national capitol buildings, army camps, jails and military prisons, hospitals, and graveyards that accompanied the tit-for-tat style of pointedly personal warfare"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 01, 2023
Series
Interpreting the Civil War.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
The Roots of division and animosity in Virginia and West Virginia, 1787-1861
Pro-Union Virginia and the move toward hostage-taking, 1861-63
Judge George W. Thompson, Governor Pierpont, and the First Hostage Case
The new state and hostage-taking after the Jones-Imboden Raid of 1863
Hostage politics in Barbour County in 1863
Guerrillas and retribution in gilmer and Doddridge Counties, 1863-64
Rebel Rangers, Union Scouts, and hostages on the South Branch
The plight of Southwestern West Virginia in 1864
The Union league raid in Berkeley Springs in 1864
Governor Boreman and George Buchanon
Epilogue.
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