The Last Capital

by John H. Brubaker III

The American Civil War ended and the story of the Lost Cause began in Virginia during a long week in April 1865. Richmond fell and Lee surrendered and Danville on the Dan River served as the very temporary capital of an expiring nation.

The Last Capital reconstructs the events of that week, when the Confederate government met as a coherent unit for the last time in a building which has become the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History.

The book's scope extends to activities elsewhere in Virginia, but focuses on a dusty tobacco town, transformed into a busy military center, where Jefferson Davis delivered his last proclamation to the people of the Confederacy.

Info on the Author: A native Pennsylvanian, John Brubaker, has spent many hours walking the battlefields of Gettysburg and Virginia. As a founding member of the Danville Historical Society and as editor of and a writer for The Danville Register, he explored Danville's Civil War experience.

Price: $10.00 plus tax and shipping
Hardback: 76 pages

Please contact the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History to order.