This is an abbreviated list of sources used in constructing the Valley of the Shadow Archive. In many cases, sources are listed on indivdual pages as well. This bibliography is divided into three sections: General Works, Augusta County, and Franklin County.
We have also compiled a Master Bibliography of all sources used in the Valley Project.
Crofts, Daniel. Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
Davis, George B. et al. Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891.
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
________. Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982
National Historical Society. The Image of War 1861-1865. Garden City: Doubleday, 1981-1983.
Time-Life Books. The Civil War.
Davis, William C. First Blood: Fort Sumter to Bull Run. Alexandria: Time-Life Books, 1983.
Lewis, Thomas A. The Shenandoah in Flames: The Valley Campaign of 1864. Alexandria: Time-Life Books, 1987.
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891.
Selected articles from the Augusta Historical Bulletin.
Brown, David J., ed. Staunton Virginia: A Pictorial History. Staunton: Historic Staunton Foundation, 1985.
Driver, Robert J. 52nd Virginia Infantry. Lynchburg: H. E. Howard, 1986.
Gordon, Armistead C. Staunton, Virginia: Its Past, Present, and Future. New York: South Publishing Co., 1890.
History Harvest. Donation information.
Lesperance, Michael D. Fighting for the Union: The Political Culture of Anti-Sectionalism in Augusta County, Virginia, 1850-1861. MA Thesis, University of Virginia, 1993.
May, C. E. Life Under Four Flags in North River Basin of Virginia. Verona, VA: McClure Press, 1976.
Miller, William J. Mapping for Stonewall: The Civil War Service of Jed. Hotchkiss. Washington, DC: Elliot & Clark Publishing, 1993.
Peyton, J. Lewis. History of Augusta County, Virginia. Bridgewater, VA, 1953.
Strother, David.
Waddell, Joseph. Annals of Augusta County. Richmond: Wm. Ellis Jones, 1886.
Wallace, Lee A. Jr., 5th Virginia Infantry. Lynchburg: H. E. Howard,
1988.
Alexander, Ted and others. Southern Revenge! Civil War History
of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Chambersburg: Greater Chambersburg
Chamber of Commerce, 1989.
Bates, Samuel. History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887.
Beers, D. G. Atlas of Franklin County, Pennsylvania: From
Actual Surveys. Philadelphia: Pomeroy & Beers, 1868.
Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Chicago: The
Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905.
Blockson, Charles L. The Underground Railroad in
Pennsylvania. Jacksonville, NC: Flame International, Inc., 1981.
________. Hippocrene Guide to the Underground Railroad.
New York: Hippocrene Books, 1994.
Conrad, William P. Glory Land: A History of Greencastle's
Negro Community. Shippensburg, PA: Beidel Printing House, 1983.
Donehoo, Dr. George P., ed. History of the Cumberland Valley in
Pennsylvania. 2 vols.
Harrisburg: Susquehanna History Association, 1930.
Fries, Stella M., Janet Z. Gabler, and The Reverend C. Bernard Ruffin.
Some Chambersburg Roots: A Black Perspective. 1980.
Hutton, A. J. White. Some Historical Data Concerning the History
of Chambersburg. Chambersburg: Franklin Repository, 1930.
Kittochtinny Historical
Society
McCarl, Timothy L. Rhythms of Life in a Southcentral Pennsylvania Rural
Community: Individual and Family Life in Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania, During the Late Nineteenth Century. MA Thesis,
Shippensburg University, 1985.
McCauley, I. H. Historical Sketch of Franklin County, Pennsylvania,
prepared for the Centennial Celebration. 2nd edition, enlarged.
Harrisburg: Patriot Publishing Company, 1878.
Still, William. The Underground Railroad.
Philadelphia: People's Publishing Company, 1879.4
Franklin County
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