CIVIL WAR HISTORY RELATING TO LOYAL CITIZENS
(UNIONISTS)
LIVING IN THE SOUTH
Valley
Research Associates are recovering
and publishing
the claims made against the Federal
Government by loyal citizens
(Unionists) of the Shenandoah
Valley against the Government
for losses incurred while Union
troops were camped on and around
their farms: These
Unionists lived in the South
and suffered at the hands
of both the Union Armies as well
as their antagonistic neighbors
who hated them for not supporting
the Confederate Cause. The
true extent and influence of
the Unionists in the South has
not been fully examined by historians. There
were many thousands of them. Over
twenty thousand submitted claims to the
Federal Government.
These
records in the National Archives contain
valuable historical and genealogical information
most of which has never before been made
public or seen the light of day. It
is estimated that the material for Rockingham
County alone will require the publication
of six large volumes; the first was published
in the fall of 2003, the second in the
fall of 2004, the third in
the fall of 2005, the fourth in the
fall of 2007 and the fifth is expected
to be published in 2008.
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Unionists and the
Civil War Experience
In the Shenandoah Valley
- Volume
I - Contains Southern Association Claims descriptions of 37
families of Brethren, Mennonite and other faiths in the Mt.
Crawford and Cross Keys areas of southeast Rockingham County, Virginia
- Volume
II - Highlights the stories of 32 families of Brethren,
Mennonite and other faiths who lived in the Greenmount, Linville
and Edom areas of northwest Rockingham County, Virginia
- Volume
III - Highlights the stories of 57 families of Brethren,
Mennonite and other faiths of the Bridgewater, Dayton, and rural
areas of Rockingham County, Virginia.
- Volume
IV - Highlights the stories
of families
of Brethren, Mennonite and other faiths of
Broadway, Cootes Store and Timberville areas
of Rockingham County, Virginia.
These books
begin to mine the rich social
history pertaining to the Civil
War. Here you will meet some
of the devout, frugal and industrious
folk who nurtured the agricultural
bounty of the Valley only to see the fruit
of this labor confiscated in
random acts of violence and injustice during
the war.
Of particular interest are the families
of Brethren and Mennonite descent, as well as families of the Methodist
Episcopal and German Reformed Churches. Within these attractively bound
hardcover volumes you will find stories of war-engendered suffering,
loss of life and property, miscarriages of justice and struggles of
conscience.
Books compiled and edited by Norman
Wenger, Dave Rodes, and Emmert
Bittinger
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