Chapter 1: A Place and a People
Slavery:
Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831)
William Lloyd Garrison founds the Liberator (1831)
Southerners get defensive about slavery, create stricter slave laws (slaves forbidden to read), manumission declines, slave patrols, slavery as sanctioned by the Bible. Reaches heights in 1850s.
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry (October 1859). 50 miles from Culpeper.
Doubled slave patrols and formed Culpeper Minute Men (beginnings of Confederate Army)
Free blacks
Willis Madden and son - 300 acre farms
Tavern, store, blacksmith shop
Culpeper politics Democrats / Whigs
1860 election / Culpeper votes
Abraham Lincoln - Republican = 0
Stephen Douglas - Democrat = 19
John C. Breckinridge - Democrat = 525
John Bell - Constitutional Union = 526
Chapter 2: A Promise of Glory and Greatness
Note that John Letcher was the governor of Virginia.
What Culpeper citizens pushed for secession/disunion? (p. 30-31)
Why did businessmen resist secession? (p. 32-33)
Who, before, Sumter could be labeled as a "traitor." (p. 33)
How could Lincoln "preserve southern honor?" (The Corwin Amendment)
How could Lincoln "preserve southern honor?" (The Corwin Amendment)
What caused James Barbour to finally embrace secession? (p. 34)
Who is Mary Payne and what are her views? (p. 35)
What military units were formed? Who led the Hazelwood Volunteers (was he rich or poor?) Why did young men join up? (p. 37-38) How well armed are they? What is their attitude about fighting Yankees?
Southern refugees will be a growing problem during the war. What does Sutherland say about the them in the first couple months? What else do families fear? (p. 44)
What was the romance between Daniel Grimsley and Bette Browning like? (p.45)
What are young teenage boys doing? (p.46)
What professions profit economically from the Confederate Army's presence? (p 47-48).
How do some professional men try to avoid combat duty? (50-51)
What are some of the medical problems in the camp? (p. 52)
What did Hiram Amiss say about secession? What has this have to do with Treason? (p.53)
What do free blacks say publicly about Virginia seceding?
How are free blacks treated by white Culpeper residents. (p. 54 - 55)
What is Catherine Crittenden's problem with her son going to war? (p. 55)
Ambrose Powell (A.P.) Hill of Culpeper is a lieutenant general and commanded the Third Corps of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. (p. 56)
The Culpeper soldiers head to Manassas for the first major battle of the war. (p. 57 - 60)
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