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Bibliography

The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 volumes prepared under the direction of the secretary of war by Robert N. Scott (1985 edition)

Graham T. Dozier, comp. Virginia's Civil War: A Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society (1998) [Guide available online]

Stephen V. Ash. When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861–1865 (1995)

Stephen V. Ash. "White Virginians under Federal Occupation, 1861–1865," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 98 (1990): 169–92

Lou Athey. "Loyalty and Civil Liberty in Fayette County during the Civil War," West Virginia History 55 (1996): 1–24

Edward L. Ayers. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859–1863 (2003)

James G. Barber. Alexandria in the Civil War (1988)

Ira Berlin, et al. Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War (1992)

Ira Berlin, et al. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867, Series I, Volume 1, The Destruction of Slavery (1985)

Heidi Campbell-Shoaf. "Siege of Petersburg: The City and Citizens Were Impacted from the Start," Civil War Times (August 2004)

Peter S. Carmichael. "'This was one of the cruel necessities of war': The Destruction of Fredericksburg," Civil War 66 (1998): 40–48

Roy Bird Cook. "The Civil War Comes to Charleston," West Virginia History 23 (1962): 153–67

Stephen Cresswell, ed., "A Civil War Diary from French Creek: Selections from the Diary of Sirene Bunten," West Virginia History 48 (1989): 131–41

Paul Randolph Dotson, "'Sisson's Kingdom,' Loyalty Divisions in Floyd County, Virginia, 1861–1865" (MA thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997)

Richard R. Duncan. Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861–1865 (2007)

Drew Gilpin Faust. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996)

Drew Gilpin Faust. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008)

Shelby Foote. The Civil War: A Narrative (1958–74)

Ernest B. Furgurson. Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War (1996)

Joe Geiger, Jr. "The Tragic Fate of Guyandotte," West Virginia History 54 (1995): 28–41

A. Wilson Greene. Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War (2006)
[Purchase this book online]

Mary Elizabeth Kincaid. "Fayetteville, West Virginia, during the Civil War," West Virginia History 14 (1953): 339–64

Claudia Lynn Lady. "Five Tri-state Women during the Civil War: Day-to-Day Life," West Virginia History 43 (1982): 189–226, 303–21

George C. Rable. "Fire in the Streets, The Assault on Fredericksburg," North and South (August 2000), 74–86.

William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton. Lee and Grant (2007) [Purchase this book online]

John W. Shaffer. "Loyalties in Conflict: Union and Confederate Sentiment in Barbour County," West Virginia History 50 (1991): 109–28

Ellen Wilkins Tompkins, ed. "The Colonel's Lady, Some Letters of Ellen Wilkins Tompkins, July–December 1861," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 69 (1961): 383–419

Daniel E. Sutherland. Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861–1865 (1995)

Gary Walker. The War in Southwest Virginia, 1861–1865 (1985)

Thomas J. Wertenbaker. Norfolk: Historic Southern Port (1931)

Brian S. Wills. The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia (2001)

John S. Wise. "Deserter-Hunting," Putnam's Monthly (February 1909), 599–602

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