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A Chronicle of Civil War Hampton, Virginia: Struggle and Rebirth on the Homefront (Civil War Series)

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From its starting as a Tidewater the city within the 1600s, Hampton, Virginia, has weathered many storms, including the disastrous effects of the Civil War and the difficulties of Reconstruction. Town’s picturesque harbors have witnessed the upward push of a thriving seafood industry, the expansion of tutorial opportunity and the plight of Hampton’s African American community. Writer Alice Erickson uses her own circle of relatives, the Hickman circle of relatives, as a vehicle to unite compelling vignettes of Hampton’s so much storied era. Discover the intricacies of the Virginia secession, the turmoil of Federal occupation and the revitalization of Hampton out of the ashes of conflict. Follow along Erickson’s tragic and adventurous story, whose ending has yet to be written.

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