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Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
URL: http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/

Description:
"The Valley Project details life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's Raid through the era of Reconstruction." Contains photographs, maps, "thousands of original letters and diaries, newspapers and speeches, [and] census and church records, left by men and women in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania." Many of the sources are searchable.

Author:
Ayers, Edward L.

Publisher:
University of Virginia

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

LII Database Information:
Record 7664 created by Jackie Borin on 11/29/2000
Last modification on 07/29/2009
Published: 11/29/2000  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/7664