Cenantua's contributions to...

Civil War Blogroll

• 13th Mass. Blog
• A River Divided: The Civil War Along the Potomac
• All Not So Quiet on the Potomac
• Bull Runnings
• Civil War Books and Authors
• Civil War Bookshelf
• Civil War Medicine (and Writing)
• Civil War Notebook
• Civil War Voices
• Confederate Book Review
• Crossed Sabers
• Dead Confederates
• Draw the Sword
• Emerging Civil War
• Fredericksburg Remembered
• Freedom by the Sword
• History Matters
• Lancaster at War
• Looking for North Carolina's Civil War
• My Year of Living Rangerously
• Mysteries and Conundrums
• Rantings of a Civil War Historian
• Regular Cavalry in the Civil War
• Renegade South
• Shenandoah 1864
• Spotsylvania Civil War Blog
• The 48th Pennsylvania Infantry
• The Maryland Campaign of September 1862
• The Siege of Petersburg Online
• To Preserve Family and Farm
• To the Sound of the Guns
• TOCWOC

Civil War Era Web Projects and Reference Sites I Like

• The Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1860-65
• Valley of the Shadow

Historical Databases on the Web

• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (NPS)
• Historical Census Browser (UVa Library)

History Web Projects that I Like

• Documenting the American South (UNC)
• The Historical Marker Database Forum

HMDb Links for Marked Civil War Sites in the Shenandoah Valley

• Augusta County, Staunton, & Waynesboro
• Berkeley County, West Virginia
• Clarke County
• Frederick County & Winchester
• Highland County
• Page County & Luray
• Rockingham County & Harrisonburg
• Shenandoah County
• Warren County

Other Blogs That I Like

• 19th-century American Women
• Appalachian History: Stories, quotes and anecdotes
• Boston 1775
• Elektratig
• Greg Specter
• History Myths Debunked
• The Cotton Boll Conspiracy
• West Virginia GeoExplorer Project Blog

Works of literature (mostly 19th century fictional) focused on the antebellum Shenandoah Valley

• A History of the Valley of Virginia (1833), by Samuel Kercheval
• A Night at Greenway Court (1896), Willa Cather
• A Romance of the Valley of Virginia (1892), by Emma Lyon Bryan
• Address to the People of West Virginia; Shewing that Slavery is Injurious to the Public welfare…. (1847), by Henry Ruffner
• Aunt Dorothy: An Old Plantation Story (1890), by Margaret Junkin Preston
• Beechenbrook: A Rhyme of War (1865), Margaret Junkin Preston
• Behind the Blue Ridge. A Homely Narrative. (1887), by Frances Courtenay Baylor
• Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse (1887), by Margaret Junkin Preston
• Daisy Swan, A Flower of Shenandoah (1865), by John Malone Dagnall
• Echoes from the Glen in Divers Key (1904), by William Page Carter
• Fairfax; Or, The Master of Greenway Court. A Chronicle of the Valley of the Shenandoah (1868), John Esten Cooke
• Flowers of Hope and Memory: A Collection of Poems (1860), Cornelia Jane Mathews Jordan
• Frescati: A Page From Virginia History (1909), by Nettie Gray Daingerfield
• Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems (1847), Philip Pendleton Cooke
• Hilt to Hilt; Or, Days and Nights on the Banks of the Shenandoah in the Autumn of 1864 (1868), by John Esten Cooke
• Judith Bensaddi (1841), by Henry Ruffner
• Leather Stockings and Silk; Or, Hunter John Myers in his Times: A Story of The Valley of Virginia (1854), John Esten Cooke
• Our Cousin Veronica; Or, Scenes and Adventures over the Blue Ridge (1855), Mary Elizabeth Wormeley
• Our Mammy and other stories (1906), by Henrietta G. Daingerfield
• Shenandoah: A Military Comedy in Four Acts (1897), by Bronson Howard
• Shenandoah: Love and War in the Valley of Virginia, 1861-1865 (1912), by Henry Tyrell
• Silverwood: A Book of Memories (1856), Margaret Junkin Preston
• Surry of Eagle's Nest, or, The Memoirs of a Staff Officer Serving in Virginia (1866), John Esten Cooke
• Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion (1832/1853), by John Pendleton Kennedy
• Tales of an American Landlord; Containing Sketches of Life South of the Potomac (1824), by (anonymously) George Tucker
• That Dear Old Sword (1903), by Nettie Gray Daingerfield (limited online text)
• The Annals of Harper's Ferry (1869), by Josephus, Jr. (Joseph Barry)
• The Blackwater Chronicle – A Narrative of an Expedition into the Land of Canaan, in Randolph County, Virginia (1853), by Philip Pendleton Kennedy
• The Boys of Greenway Court (1896), by Hezekiah Butterworth
• The Holcombes. A Story of Virginia Home Life (1871), by Mary Tucker Magill
• The Kentuckian in New-York; or, The Adventures of Three Southerns, by a Virginian, Vol. I (1834), by William Alexander Caruthers
• The Kentuckian in New-York; or, The Adventures of Three Southerns, by a Virginian, Vol. II (1834), by William Alexander Caruthers
• The Knights of the Golden Horse-Shoe, a Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion (1835/1845), by William Alexander Caruthers
• The Last of the Foresters: Or, Humors on the Border; A Story of the Old Virginia Frontier (1856), by John Esten Cooke
• The Mountaineer (1823), by Conrad Speece, D.D.
• The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (1889), by Bethany Veney
• The Valley Campaigns – Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant While Between the Lines in the Shenandoah Valley during the War Between the States (1914), by Thomas Almond Ashby
• The Valley of the Shenandoah; Or, Memoirs of the Graysons (1825), by George Tucker
• The Wreath of Eglantine, and Other Poems (1869), by Daniel Bedinger Lucas (Editor)
• Uncle Robin in His Cabin in Virginia, And Tom Without One in Boston (1853), by John White Page
• Under the Pruning Knife: A Story of Southern Life (1888), by Mary Tucker Magill (no online text)
• Union Speech; Delivered at Kanawha Salines, Va. (1856), by Henry Ruffner
• Ups and Downs of a Confederate Soldier (1940), by James Huffman (no online text)
• Virginia Illustrated; Containing a Visit to the Virginia Canaan, And the Adventures of Porte Crayon and his Cousins (1857/1871), by Porte Crayon (David Hunter Strother)
• Women, Or, Chronicles of the Late War (1871), by Mary Tucker Magill