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James Irvin "Bud" Robertson Jr. (July 18, 1930 – November 2, 2019) was an American historian on the American Civil War and professor at Virginia Tech. [1] Early life and academic career. Robertson was born on July 18, 1930, and raised in Danville, Virginia.
Dec 5, 2019 · James I. “Bud” Robertson Jr., a well-known and nationally influential historian of the American Civil War, died in November, Virginia Tech announced.
The Revolutionary Era in Virginia. Virginia—the largest and most populous colony—played a major role in winning independence and determining the values and aspirations of the new nation. At both the start and end of the Revolutionary War, Virginia became a battlefield.
In 1784, Virginia relinquished its claims to the Illinois County, Virginia, except for the Virginia Military District (Southern Indiana). In 1775, Daniel Boone blazed a trail for the Transylvania Company from Fort Chiswell in Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into central Kentucky.
The decades following the presidency of Virginian James Monroe (1817–1825) saw populations shift, the economy expand, and attitudes about slavery harden. More and more families migrated from the soil-depleted Tidewater and Piedmont, while new and diverse peoples in the Shenandoah Valley prospered.
Reconstruction. During the decade following the Civil War, former Confederate states were required to “reconstruct” their state governments before reentering the Union. When Virginia’s immediate postwar government restricted the rights of former slaves, Congress placed the commonwealth under military rule until a new constitution could be ...
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Descriptions of the twenty-one volumes of colonial Virginia records once owned by Thomas Jefferson, now at the Library of Congress, and how to find and use them online.
