Author: Thomas Kemp Cartmell
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 2009-06
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 0806345438
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is an exhaustive regional history of the parent county of nine present-day Virginia or West Virginia counties. It features several hundred detailed genealogical and biographical sketches of early families of old Frederick County. With an improved index
Author: Marvin J. Vann
Publisher:
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780788400254
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author's original quest of finding his relatives in the 1860 census of Shenandoah County, Virginia, led to the collection of data on hundreds of households. In this second volume, over 250 dwellings are accounted for in Powells Fort, Edinbug District, and Mt. Jackson. The census data, organized by dwelling number and family number, is given for each family; this is followed by detailed biographical information covering nearly every individual in each household. Information on most people includes birth and death dates, marriage dates, military activity, location of burial, education/occupation, children, second spouses, related families, census dwelling and family numbers, and the microfilm page number, when applicable. Photographs, illustrations, a bibliography and a full name index add to the value of this work.
Author: Anna Kagey Wayland (fl.)
Publisher:
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 874
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hal F. Sharpe
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2012-06-05
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 161423521X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shenandoah County, in the years prior to the Civil War, was a prosperous place. Nestled within the Shenandoah Valley, it was a haven for agricultural commerce fueled by slave labor. Integral railways and transportation routes passed through Shenandoah County, feeding its impressive agricultural output throughout the Virginia. With the outbreak of Civil War, all of that would change. Four major battles took place in and around Shenandoah County New Market, Toms Brook, Fishers Hill, and Cedar Creek. Although the proceedings of these historic battles have been well-documented, the effect the combat had on residents of Shenandoah County has receded into the background. Now, author Hal Shape brings the lives of county residents to fore, recounting how their spirits were tested during this dark hour of American history.
Author: Jonathan A. Noyalas
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2022-11-01
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0813072670
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The African American experience in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction This book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Although the Valley was a site of fierce conflicts during the Civil War and its military activity has been extensively studied, scholars have largely ignored the Black experience in the region until now. Correcting previous assumptions that slavery was not important to the Valley, and that enslaved people were treated better there than in other parts of the South, Jonathan Noyalas demonstrates the strong hold of slavery in the region. He explains that during the war, enslaved and free African Americans navigated a borderland that changed hands frequently—where it was possible to be in Union territory one day, Confederate territory the next, and no-man’s land another. He shows that the region’s enslaved population resisted slavery and supported the Union war effort by serving as scouts, spies, and laborers, or by fleeing to enlist in regiments of the United States Colored Troops. Noyalas draws on untapped primary resources, including thousands of records from the Freedmen’s Bureau and contemporary newspapers, to continue the story and reveal the challenges African Americans faced from former Confederates after the war. He traces their actions, which were shaped uniquely by the volatility of the struggle in this region, to ensure that the war’s emancipationist legacy would survive. A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller