Date of Award

Spring 2014

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Committee Director

Timothy Orr

Committee Member

Maura Hametz

Committee Member

John Weber

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.H47 S785 2014

Abstract

Despite the profusion of literature examining the importance of Virginia's Civil War, the Old Dominion's two Eastern Shore counties have been too often ignored by historians. To correct this deficiency, this thesis examines the events that occurred there during the Civil War Era, illuminating specifically President Lincoln's attempt to rekindle loyalty to the Union through an evolving military occupation strategy. Although Federal soldiers and sailors invaded the land and waters of the Eastern Shore with relative ease, citizens found ways to resist occupation and aid the Confederacy. In the end, the four-year Federal occupation brought an end to slavery, but it failed to destroy the conservative social order that ruled Northampton and Accomack Counties. Truly, the Civil War brought changes to the Eastern Shore, but the region's remote nature insulated it from some of the conflict's most revolutionary effects.

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DOI

10.25777/t2ck-yc13

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