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As a Southerner and native of the Shenandoah Valley, I offer reflections on the Civil War-era South… and sometimes a little more. But… expect the unexpected
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The North Carolinian…
Yes, Solomon Meredith was born in NC and lived there until the age of 19. Can you believe… the commanding officer of the Iron Brigade at Gettysburg was a North Carolinian? Also interesting that he faced Tarheels here.
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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
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