Unionists and the Civil War Experience Vol 1

David Rhodes & Norman R. Wenger

he first of six volumes publishing the claims made against the Federal Government by loyal citizens (Unionists) of the Shenandoah Valley 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. Volume I contains Southern Claims Commission descriptions of 37 families of Brethren, Mennonite and other faiths in the Mt. Crawford and Cross Keys areas of southeast Rockingham County, Virginia. 

741 p.