This thread will likely become source material for Five Ponds Press, the low bidder for Virginia history text books. Remember this:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/30/virginia.textbook.errors/
"Among the mistakes noted by the three reviewers:
• The War of Independence began in 1775, not 1776.
• George Washington did not preside over a Continental Congress in 1785, he presided over the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
• Eleven states joined the Confederacy, not 12.
• There wasn't a Battle of Richmond in the Civil War.
• The number of casualties in the two battles at Bull Run was more like 30,000 - not 6,000.
• America joined World War I in 1917, not 1916.
The panelists also dismissed as unfounded the assertion that significant numbers of African-Americans fought for the South during the Civil War."