Additional Resources

Students interested in pursuing themes and questions posed on this website will find this list of resources helpful. White it is by no means exhaustive, the list comprises many of the important works on which we relied for contextualizing Wash and Mollie’s Civil War experiences.

  • Anderson, John Nathan. “Money or Nothing: Confederate Postal System Collapse during the Civil War.” American Journalism 30, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 65– 86.
  • Atchison, Ray M. “ ‘The Land We Love’: A Southern Post- Bellum Magazine of Agriculture, Literature, and Military History.” North Carolina Historical Review 37, no. 4 (1960): 506– 15.
  • Ayers, Edward L., Gary W. Gallagher, and Andrew J. Torget, eds. Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2006.
  • Barber, Susan. “ ‘The White Wings of Eros’: Courtship and Marriage in Confederate Richmond.” In Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South, edited by Catherine Clinton. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Berry, Stephen William. All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Berry, Stephen William. When Mail Was Armor: Envelopes of the Great Rebellion, 1861– 1865.” Southern Cultures 4, no. 3 (1998): 63.
  • Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002.
  • Boyd, Steven R. Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War: The Iconography of Union and Confederate Covers. Baton Rouge: lsu Press, 2010.
  • Brockway, A. N., ed. Catalogue of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. New York: Council Publishing Company, 1900.
  • Bush, David R., ed. I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island: Life in a Civil War Prison. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2011.
  • Bushong, Millard Kessler. A History of Jefferson County, West Virginia. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 2002.
  • Carmichael, Peter S. The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, And Reunion. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
  • Cartmell, T. K. Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: A History of Frederick County, Virginia from Its Formation in 1738 to 1908. Winchester, Va.: Eddy Press Corp., 1909.
  • Cloyd, Benjamin G. Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
  • Cocke, William Ronald. Hanover County Chancery Wills and Notes: A Compendium of Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Material as Contained in Cases of the Chancery Suits of Hanover County, Virginia. Columbia, Va.: William Ronald Cocke
  • Dabney, Virginius. Richmond: The Story of a City. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 1990. First published 1976 by Doubleday.
  • Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
  • Foster, Gaines M. Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergency of the New South, 1865 to 1913. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
  • Glatthaar, Joseph. Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
  • Harris, M. Keith. Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration among Civil War Veterans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
  • Hesseltine, William Best. Civil War Prisons: A Study in War Psychology. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998.
  • Jabour, Anya. Scarlett’s Sisters: Young Women in the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
  • Kelley, Mary. Learning to Stand & Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
  • Kutzler, Evan. “Captive Audiences: Sound, Silence, and Listening in Civil War Prisons,” Journal of Social History 48, no. 2 (December 2014): 239-263.
  • Link, William A. Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
  • “List of Confederate Prisoner of War Baptisms (1864– 1865) Compiled from St. James Records.” In Military Collections: North Carolina State Archives, 1864– 65.
  • Lystra, Karen. Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
  • Moore II. Robert H. Miscellaneous Disbanded Virginia Light Artillery. Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1997.
  • Morrison, A. J. The Beginnings of Public Education in Virginia, 1776– 1860; Study of Secondary Schools in Relation to the State Literary Fund. Richmond: Davis Pottom, Superintendent of Public Printing, 1917.
  • Nelson, Megan Kate. Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War. UnCivil Wars. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.
  • Ott, Victoria E. Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
  • Page, Richard Channing Moore. Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia. Also a Condensed Account of the Nelson, Walker, Pendelton and Randolph Families. 1893.
  • Phillips, Jason. Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007.
  • Phillips, Jason. “The Grape Vine Telegraph: Rumors and Confederate Persistence.” The Journal of Southern History 72, no. 4 (November 1, 2006): 753– 88.
  • Pickenpaugh, Roger. Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009.
  • Pickenpaugh, Roger. Johnson’s Island: A Prison for Confederate Officers. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2016.
  • Rubin, Anne S. A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861– 1868. Civil War America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
  • Runge, William H., ed. Four Years in the Confederate Artillery: The Diary of Private Henry Robinson Berkeley. Chapel Hill: Published for the Virginia Historical Society by the University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
  • Sodergren, Steven E. “ ‘The Great Weight of Responsibility’: The Struggle over History and Memory in Confederate Veteran Magazine.” Southern Cultures 19, 3 (2013): 26– 45.
  • Starnes, Richard D. “Forever Faithful: The Southern Historical Society and Confederate Historical Memory.” Southern Cultures 2, no. 2 (1996): 177– 94.
  • Sternhell, Yael A. “Communicating War: The Culture of Information in Richmond during the American Civil War.” Past and Present 202, no. 1 (2009): 175– 205.
  • Taylor, James E. With Sheridan up the Shenandoah Valley in 1864: Leaves from a Special Artist’s Sketchook and Diary. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1989.
  • “The Treatment of Prisoners During the War between the States.” Southern Historical Society Papers, 1, no. 3 (March, 1876): 113– 327.
  • Turner, Charles W., ed. The Prisoner of War Letters of Lieutenant Thomas Dix Houston (1863– 65). Verona, Va.: McClure Printing Company, 1980.
  • Varon, Elizabeth R. We Mean to Be Counted: White Women & Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
  • Waugh, Charles G. and Martin H. Greenberg, eds., The Women’s War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War. Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland House, 1999.
  • Whites, LeeAnn. “The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender.” In Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War, edited by Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, 3– 21. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Williams, Timothy J. Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 
  • Wonders, Katarina. “Prisoner of War: George Washington Nelson.” Unpublished manuscript, on the Long Branch Plantation official website, accessed April 23, 2017, http:// www .visitlongbranch .org / history / archives/
  • Wyatt- Brown, Bertram. The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s– 1890s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
  • Wyatt- Brown, Bertram. Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.