Newspapers

Articles from the Staunton newpapers Spectator and Vindicator during the war

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The Booker Collection

A Waynesboro family's Civil War papers

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The Casper C. Branner Letters

A student of Augusta's Mossy Creek Academy discusses daily life there
and secessionist sentiments at the state and county level

November 30, 1860
February 9, 1861
January 10, 1861


Lizzie to Mary Letter

Discussion of Staunton's evacuation, Gen. Jackson's movements, and other town news

November 18, 1862


George Sommers Letter

Details troop movements, removal of military stores, and war scares in Staunton

April 26 (1862?)


Hotchkiss Family Papers

Correspondence and notes from the family of Jedediah Hotchkiss,
"Mapmaker of the Confederacy" and founder of the Mossy Creek Academy

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Trimble Family Papers

War documents of an Augusta family, mostly concerning Joseph and John D. Trimble

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Rolston Family Letters

Correspondence between an Augusta County family during the war years

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J.B. Christian Ledger

Memorandum of tasks to be done on a farm in 1864

1864

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