Smyth County History and Traditions
Author: Goodridge Wilson
Publisher:
Published: 1932
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13:
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Smyth County
Author: Kimberly Barr Byrd
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738517568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocated between the Blue Ridge and the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, Smyth County has had a profound effect on many aspects of local, state, American, and world history. In Images of America: Smyth County, take a journey back through time and visit the town recently named the "Most Historical Spot in America." Travel across the homestead of the first Virginians, who fought the first recorded battle of the new land, and find out how Smyth County is rewriting the history books. See the racetrack in Smyth County where the "Babe Ruth of NASCAR" took the checkered flag. Tour Civil War sites and homes where Stoneman's Raiders took refuge during battles for the most valuable site of the Confederacy.
Smyth County Revisited
Author: Kimberly Barr Byrd
Publisher: Gremese Editore
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780738544090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA companion to Images of America: Smyth County, this volume, Smyth County Revisited, depicts some of the history of the area. Come examine the first land tracts surveyed west of New River. Learn of the vast amount of history surrounding Fort Kilmackronan, which still stands today. Explore the Indian Fields, and learn of the ghosts that still haunt them. Visit the many Civil War sites in this area and tour the localities where Civil War uniforms and supplies were manufactured for the Confederacy. Find out why Smyth County became “the hub of the herbal industry” and how it went on to become the world’s largest distributor of these medicinal remedies. Discover why the county’s first library was located in the ladies’ room of the courthouse. Come survey the many other sites and memorable events that entertained so many generations for decades.
Saltville
Author: Jeffrey C. Weaver
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780738542119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSaltville, Virginia, lies on the banks of the North Fork of the Holston River on the border between Smyth and Washington Counties. Its history began very long ago; in fact, archeological evidence suggests extensive human habitation there for more than 14,000 years. Saltville was named because it was a source of salt,-and by the end of the 18th century, a thriving industry was born. During the Civil War, Saltville attained considerable importance to the Confederate government as a supply of salt. A large Confederate army garrison was maintained there, and extensive fortifications were constructed. After the Civil War, the town led the way in industrialization of the South. Flip through the pages of Images of America: Saltville to learn why Saltville is one of the most historic places in the world.
Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County, Virginia
Author: Benjamin Floyd Nuckolls
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0806306408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrayson County is famous in southwestern Virginia as the cradle of the New River settlements--perhaps the first settlements beyond the Alleghanies. The Nuckolls book is equally famous for its genealogies of the pioneer settlers of the county, which, typically, provide the names of the progenitors of the Grayson County line and their dates and places of migration and settlement, and then, in fluid progression, the names of all offspring in the direct and sometimes collateral lines of descent. Altogether somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 persons are named in the genealogies and indexed for ready reference.
Grand Fathers
Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999-06-15
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780805054842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of varied tributes to grandfathers, reflecting their special roles in families.
The Scotts of Southwest Virginia
Author: LaVerne Thomas
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepairing the "March of Mars"
Author: John Samuel Apperson
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 684
ISBN-13: 9780865547797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"There are many collections of letters and Civil War memoirs available today, but very few offer in-depth information about the medical treatment of wounded soldiers. In Repairing the "March of Mars": The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson, Hospital Steward in the Stonewall Brigade, 1861-1865, editor John Herbert Roper provides an important supplement to this largely ignored aspect of the Civil War." "Apperson's diary is a sensitive and painstaking observation of the details of medical treatment during and after battle. For all periods of the war, his detailed personal records supplement and correct official army hospital records, and for certain periods, his diary provides the only medical information available. For example, Apperson was present at the amputation of Stonewall Jackson's arm, and his diary shows that Jackson died of postoperative pneumonia, and not of a botched surgery."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Soldier of Southwestern Virginia
Author: James I. Robertson, Jr.
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2007-08-01
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0807148024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFar more than a documentation of the horrors and banality of the Civil War, John Preston Sheffey's literate and witty writings demonstrate his ardor for battle, his love of Virginia, and his passion in waging a most arduous and suspenseful campaign: to win Josephine Spiller as his wife. Superbly edited by James I. Robertson, Jr., Sheffey's letters are the first published correspondence by a member of the 8th Virginia Cavalry. A native of Marion, Virginia, Sheffey provides an invaluable picture of socio-military affairs in the overlooked western and southwestern regions of the state. His combination of intimate minute-to-minute, day-to-day recording and larger insight into the dynamics of men, terrain, supplies, and protocol make this collection unique. Sheffey's more than ninety letters are a singular source of interest for revealing the paradoxes and tragedies of isolated but vital Civil War skirmishes in southwest Virginia.
