{"product_id":"9780895874023","title":"Touring Virginia's and West Virginia's Civil War Sites (Second Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the minds of many people, Virginia is the Civil War. It is the state most closely associated with Confederate 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTouring Virginia's and West Virginia's Civil War Sites covers all the significant sites in both states. The 18 tours visit cemeteries, large and small battlefields, historic houses and buildings, monuments and statues, rivers and mountains, sharing the history behind each location. Some stops are surprising and obscure:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurning Springs, West Virginia, site of the first oil field in history to serve as a military target\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChatham Manor, where Clara Barton, who later founded the Red Cross, ran hospital and Walt Whitman came looking for his wounded brother and ended up staying to nurse the men\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarrison's Landing, where Union general Dan Butterfield and his regimental bugler adapted a traditional call to make a new song-\"Taps\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crossroads near Orlean, Virginia, where Robert E. Lee was almost killed or captured, which could have put Stonewall Jackson in command of the Army of Northern Virginia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Lee House in Lexington, where the garage still stays open so visitors can see where Lee stabled his horses, Traveller and Lucy Long, after the war\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis second edition includes new sites, new photographs, and updated directions, just in time for the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John F Blair, Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022737850608,"sku":"9780895874023","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780895874023_p0.jpg?v=1763848351","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780895874023","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}