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The Governor's Pawns - Hostages and Hostage-Taking in Civil War West Virginia (Hardcover)
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The Governor's Pawns - Hostages and Hostage-Taking in Civil War West Virginia (Hardcover)
Series: Interpreting the Civil War: Texts and Contexts
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An in-depth look at the unique actions of the newly formed state of
West Virginia during the Civil War 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 examines the history that led to the
taking of political prisoners in western Virginia, the
implementation of a hostage law by Virginia's pro-Union government
in 1863, and the adoption of that law by the newly recognized state
of West Virginia. The roots of state hostage-taking took hold prior
to the Civil War. Sectional politics between eastern and western
Virginia and their local communities, as well as long-standing
family rivalries, resulted in the extreme actions of secession and
war. Randall Gooden uses genealogical sources to tell the
fascinating stories of individuals swept up in the turmoil,
including hostages and their captors, freedmen, and government and
military officials. Gooden emphasizes the personal nature of
civilian arrests and hostage-taking and describes the impact on
communities and the families left scarred by this practice. The
Governor's Pawns takes readers into the city streets, 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.
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