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Richmond Examiner, “is the most mortifying feature of the war.” The editor of the Lynchburg Virginian charged that prosperous farmers “were grinding the faces of the poor, and destroying the cause of their country.” A former army officer observed the speculation and fortunes that were being made in tobacco and wrote, “Lynchburg has gone mad—running stark mad—men, women & children— … all tobacco—tobacco—from morning till night from night till morning.” Public meetings in Amherst, Buckingham, and Nelson counties denounced speculation and urged that the state legislature...

Early Years Baldwin was born on January 11, 1820, in Augusta County, the eldest of three sons and third of six children of Briscoe Gerard Baldwin and Martha Steele Brown Baldwin. He attended local schools and studied at the University of Virginia from 1836 to 1839. In the latter year he returned to Staunton to study law in the office of his father, who was one of the leaders of the bar in the Shenandoah Valley before being elected to the Virginia Court of Appeals early in 1842. Baldwin was admitted to the bar in May 1841, and on September 20, 1842, he married Susan Madison Peyton. They had n...

A special election in January 1861 allowed Virginia voters the opportunity to pick delegates to the convention. To the dismay of secessionists in Virginia and across the South, of the 152 delegates they elected, a solid majority were Unionist. Desire to leave the Union had never been as strong in the Upper South, and some Unionists speculated that Virginia’s example might even draw the wayward Deep South back into the United States. When the convention met on February 13 in the Mechanics Institute at the foot of Capitol Square in Richmond, all of the factions favored delay. Radical secessio...

War quickly permeated and transformed every aspect of life in the South in the spring of 1861. The Confederacy’s leaders realized that they could only win the war with the full moral and material support of its women. As husbands and fathers departed for the battlefield and politicians and journalists urged civilians to do their patriotic duty, white women were confronted with the strange new expectation of demonstrating authority and civic involvement. The exigencies of war encouraged white women to develop a political outlook and prove their patriotism, in contrast to the antebellum perio...

I am posting a section of my book Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory! Racism, Religion, Ideology and Politics in the Civil War Era and their Continuing Importance regarding the actions of Southern Democrat Secessionists who had already split their party during the 1860 election because I think it is very relevant today. Former and twice impeached President Donald Trump and his supporters attempted a coup by attacking Congress as it undertook its Constitutional duty to officially count the votes of the Electoral College.  The assault made under the direct order of the former President was brut...