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INDEX TO SERIES I OF AMERICAN LOYALISTS CLAIMS - compiled by Clifford S. Dwyer 1989, iv, 147 pages. Following the American Revolution, the British government established commissions to receive the claims of American Loyalists who had suffered losses of real and personal property as a result of the war. The original records of Gt. Britain [Series I, AO 12, Exchequer & Audit Dept, American Loyalist claims, 1776-1831] include thirty microfilm reels of valuable family and business information of the claimants. In most cases, the state of residence of the claimant(s) is noted. All of these films may be borrowed on interlibrary loan from the Library of Congress by citing proper volume and reel number. This is an extremely valuable addition for research in the late eighteenth century. ----- Item # AMLOYINDEX    Price:  $14.00

GEORGIA REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS' GRAVES - compiled by H. Ross Arnold and Hank Burnham. 1993, viii, 803 pages, 2 volumes. index. One of the most significant publications of Georgia Revolutionary records in recent decades! While the title appears not to fit within the purview of Virginia genealogical research, it is important to note that of the 3,500 soldiers' graves and military records noted in this work, fully one-fifth, or more than six hundred veterans came from Virginia!!! They came to Georgia by the thousands following the Revolution, out of Virginia and the Carolinas--veterans following the new lands opening up in the land lotteries of Georgia. Whether drawn by land or the lure of the new frontier or the burgeoning cotton industry, these veterans eventually settled in Georgia and began families whose descendants continue in the area to this day. This massive work has been long in coming. ------ Item # GAREVSGR    2 volume set, paperback.  Price:  $39.95     

THE TRUE STORY OF ANDERSONVILLE PRISON, A DEFENSE OF MAJOR HENRY WIRZ - by James Madison Page
Published by New Papyrus Publishing Company as a reprint and retypesetting of the 1908 edition, 2003.

Andersonville / Georgia Civil War Record

During the Civil War, James Madison Page was a prisoner in different places in the South. Seven months of that time in 1864 was spent at Andersonville. While there he became well acquainted with Major Henry Wirz, or Captain Wirz, as he then was ranked.
Page's premise, unpopular at the time of its writing but borne out by history, is that Captain Wirz, the prison warden, was unjustly held responsible for the hardship and mortality of Andersonville. It was his belief that the Union authorities must share the blame with their Confederate counterparts. The Union well knew the inability of the Confederates to meet the reasonable wants of prisoners of war; the Confederates lacked a supply for their own needs. More importantly, Union authorities failed to exercise a humane policy in the exchange of those captured in battle.

5 ¼" x 8 ¼" format, 220 pages, color cover, illustrations, Paperback. ------ Item # ANDPRIGA    Price:  $10.00

GEORGIA REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS & SAILORS, PATRIOTS & PIONEERS - compiled by H. Ross Arnold and Hank Burnham. 2001, viii, 803 pages, 2 volumes. index. Originally published as Georgia Revolutionary War Soldiers' Graves [1993], this work has been significantly upgraded in the past decade to reflect new grave sites, as well as the losses incurred by the French soldiers in the siege of Savannah.
One of the most significant publications of Georgia Revolutionary records in recent decades! While the title appears not to fit within the purview of Virginia genealogical research, it is important to note that of the 3,500 soldiers' graves and military records noted in this work, fully one-fifth, or more than six hundred veterans came from Virginia!!! They came to Georgia by the thousands following the Revolution, out of Virginia and the Carolinas--veterans following the new lands opening up in the land lotteries of Georgia. Whether drawn by land or the lure of the new frontier or the burgeoning cotton industry, these veterans eventually settled in Georgia and began families whose descendants continue in the area to this day. This massive work has been long in coming

-----Item # ANDPRIGAPB    2 Volume Set, Paperback   Price:  $49.95       

-----Item # ANDPRIGAHB    2 Volume Set, library binding   Price:  $75.00

SELECTED FINAL PENSION PAYMENT VOUCHERS, 1818 - 1864: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - abstracted by Alycon Trubey Pierce, C.G. x, index. The original records abstracted for this publication belong to the Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury (Record Group 217). The National Archives description for this specific collection of Third Auditor records is "Entry 722: Selected Final Payment Vouchers, 1818-1864." See Virginia Final Pensions above for full description. ------ Item # PPVLA    Price:  $9.95

SELECTED FINAL PENSION PAYMENT VOUCHERS, 1818 - 1864: NATCHEZ & JACKSON MISSISSIPPI - abstracted by Alycon Trubey Pierce, C.G. x, index. The original records abstracted for this publication belong to the Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury (Record Group 217). The National Archives description for this specific collection of Third Auditor records is "Entry 722: Selected Final Payment Vouchers, 1818-1864." See Virginia Final Pensions above for full description. ------Item # PPMSS   Price:  $9.95

REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS:

ANOTHER VISIT TO VALLEY FORGE - by Arthur E. Chapman. 2003, paper, 127 pages, introduction. In the American Revolution, five incidents stand out as defining moments. These are the decision to declare independence from Britain, Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga, the attack on Trenton and Princeton, Cornwallis' defeat at Yorktown, and the Valley Forge Encampment. Of the five, it is the Valley Forge Encampment — the men and women who were there — that created the first true American army. The army formed by the Encampment became the primary safeguard of our nation throughout the years to come and it is the focus of this study.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I The Road to Valley Forge
CHAPTER II Endured Suffering
CHAPTER III Housing and Shelter
CHAPTER IV Subsistence, Food, and Drink
CHAPTER V Clothing
CHAPTER VI Causes of Shortages
CHAPTER VII Special Units - The Life Guards
CHAPTER VIII Medical Care
CHAPTER IX The Defenses
CHAPTER X Organization, Training, and Weapons
CHAPTER XI Punishments and Crime
CHAPTER XII Conclusions
Appendix A The Search for the Encampment Site
Appendix B. Duportail and Engineers
Appendix C. George Washington's Christmas Eggnog
Appendix D. Regimental Manning Levels
Appendix E. Units
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SELECTED FINAL PENSION PAYMENT VOUCHERS, 1818 - 1864: CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA - abstracted by Alycon Trubey Pierce, C.G. x,   index. The original records abstracted for this publication belong to the Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury (Record Group 217). The National Archives description for this specific collection of Third Auditor records is "Entry 722: Selected Final Payment Vouchers, 1818-1864." See Virginia Final Pensions above for full description. ------ Item # PPVSC    Price:  $25.95

SELECTED FINAL REVOLUTIONARY PENSION PAYMENT VOUCHERS, 1818 - 1864: RICHMOND & WHEELING VIRGINIA - abstracted by Alycon Trubey Pierce, C.G. 2 vols., 789 pp., index. The original records abstracted for this publication belong to the Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury (Record Group 217). The National Archives description for this specific collection of Third Auditor records is "Entry 722: Selected Final Payment Vouchers, 1818-1864." The final payment is the record of the "final" payment paid to the heirs of a pensioner after his death. If the heirs did not file for the money that was due the pensioner from the time of the receipt of his last pension payment until the time of his death, there is no final payment, only a "last" payment. The removal of the final or last payment vouchers was a time-consuming and involved project, requiring thousands of staff-hours of work. From the registers of payments to United States pensioners (available on microfilm as T718), the name of every Revolutionary War veteran paid under the acts of 1818, 1828, and 1832 was placed on a 3 x 5 index card. The following information obtained from the registers was also included on the card: place where the pension agent was located, the act under which payment was made, date of death, and date either of the final or of the last payment. The date of the last payment to the pensioner was recorded only if there was no indication in the register that a final payment had been made to his heirs. The accounts of the appropriate pension agent were then searched. If the voucher was located, it was removed and placed in an acid-free envelope, the proper index card was then annotated with the asterisk (*) to indicate that the voucher had been located and withdrawn. The same procedures were followed for widows and invalid pensioners; only if the ledgers indicated that a final payment had been made after their death. No search was conducted for the last payment vouchers for these individuals. The Entry 722 vouchers for the Virginia pension agencies in Richmond (dating from 1818) and Wheeling (dating from 1837) number approximately 3,000. Those pension offices served pensioners living in the counties of Virginia including those in what is today northern West Virginia as well as in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. The fact that these accounts were settled in Virginia does not mean that the pensioners served in Virginia. Soldiers from New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and North and South Carolina appear in these payment records. The amounts paid in these final payments range from several thousand dollars down to 27¢, and payments were made from 1818 up to the Civil War. Some offspring seeking to collect their shares of arrears due to their deceased pensioner parent had long removed from the Commonwealth of Virginia, and their powers of attorney reveal their out-of-state residences in locales as far flung as Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, and Iowa Territory. ------ Item # PPVVARW   Price:  $49.95  2 volume set, paper

BROTHERS & COUSINS: CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS & SAILORS OF FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA - by William Page Johnson II. xviii, photos, index. This book attempts to record all the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors of Fairfax County. Included herein are men who were born in Fairfax County and resided there (before and/or after the war). Also included are those who died there (during and after the war) and those who are buried there. The material is presented in alphabetical order by soldier/sailor name. ------ Item # FFXVABRO   Price:  $20.00

LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA MILITIA REGISTERS, 1793 - 1829 - by Don Blincoe, Sr. 1993, ix, 495 pages (8½x11), indices. A careful and exact transcription of the militia registers for this most important county. Contains over 20,000 references to men who served during this period. Extremely valuable, since every able-bodied male over sixteen years was liable for service unless exempted by age or infirmity. Also important for families who moved away, since often in the registers it notes their destinations. The Loudoun County militia journals list the names of hundreds of men who lived there from 1793 until 1824. There are company rosters naming the officers, sergeants, corporals, drummers and clerks. Officers of higher rank and assignment are frequently mentioned. One can also find the names and locations of home and tavern owners who provided space for companies to muster and rooms for boards to convene in. Although there is little family information, some militiamen are further identified by the listing of their fathers' or masters' names beside their own. There are many rosters which include father and son or several brothers, all in the same companies. ------ Item # LOUVAMIL   Price:  $39.95

THE FANNY HUME DIARY OF 1862: A YEAR IN WARTIME ORANGE, VIRGINIA - edited by J. Randolph Grymes, Jr. 1994, index. 1862 was a pivotal year for the region of Orange, Va., with troop movements by both armies and also alarms and skirmishes. Jackson marched through Orange in August of that year on his way to the bloody battle of Cedar Mountain twelve miles north in Culpeper. Miss Fanny Hume brings these events and the people of the village to light and adds a contemporary color and flavor to these long-forgotten episodes. ------ Item # FHUMDRY   Price: $15.00

VIRGINIA SOLDIERS IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY, 1800 - 1815 - compiled by Stuart Lee Butler. 1986, paper, introduction, index. This volume contains the abstracted service records of 5,193 Virginians who enlisted in the regular United States army during the period 1800-1815. Material is taken from the Register of Enlistment's now in the custody of the National Archives. The list contains, wherever possible: full name; unit to which he was assigned; occupation prior to enlistment; county of birth; age; place and date of enlistment, and status at the end of his term of services (i.e., date and place of discharge, desertion, death, or other record. This book will become a major reference tool for genealogists in this period of Virginia history. Many of the pioneer families in the mid-west were descended from these cashiered soldiers at the end of the war. ------ Item # VASUSA   Price:  $17.00

A GUIDE TO VIRGINIA MILITIA UNITES IN THE WAR OF 1812 - Stuart Lee Butler 1988, [iv], index, maps, photos. The primary sources of information for this book are found among the massive holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC. In addition, materials have been drawn from numerous other state and local archival collections to present a balanced, scholarly account of the Virginia militia and its role in this war. This book is intended as a guide to the militia units raised in Virginia. The book is divided into three parts: Part I describes the organization of the Virginia militia, i.e., its regiments, battalions, and companies, and explains in what manner it was to be called up during an emergency. Part II frames a brief history of the role played by the Virginia militia during this conflict. Part III, the largest portion, is a county-by-county listing of the units, with the naming of the regimental commanders, company commanders, and the action of the unit in the war. The book includes the name of the company or unit commander, not every soldier who served within that unit. Researchers who have secured copies of CMSRS [compiled military service records] from the National Archives or other sources will be able to determine the unit in which a soldier served, where and when that unit operated, and, in most instances, ascertain the soldier's county of origin. A complete index of unit commanders and place names completes this standard reference work. ------ Item # VAMUW   Price:  $27.50

PRELIMINARY INVENTORY OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT COLLECTION OF CONFEDERATE RECORDS (RECORD GROUP 109) IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES - compiled by Elizabeth Bethel. 1957 (reprinted 1981, 1994). Now indexed by Craig R. Scott. 8½x11 300 pp. For the first time, this landmark reference has been retype set into a more usable form, and provided with an index and microfilm listings. This volume is the treasure trove from which sources for most Confederate records are extracted. Most significant records of the Confederate government reside in Washington, DC where they are part of Record Group 109 in the National Archives. ------ Item # INVCFEDARC    Price:  $33.00

VIRGINIA REVOLUTIONARY WAR LAND GRANT CLAIMS, 1783 - 1850 (REJECTED) - compiled by William Lindsay Hopkins. 1988, iv, 293 pages, index. 6x9 format. Abstracted from materials in the Virginia State Library, Richmond, these records often contain information about the veteran, his descendants and other affidavits from other living veterans who may never have asked for pensions or Bounty land in their own right. The book concerns the applications made for bounty land after the war which was rejected usually because the veteran had not served the requisite time or documents were missing to prove he had ever served at all. ------ Item # VAREVLGCRJ    Price:  $35.00

CONFEDERATE PROPERTY & MATERIEL SUPPLIERS IN VIRGINIA, 1861 - 1865 - by Thomas M. Spratt. The author continues his voluminous works on Confederate Virginia in this listing of all known property held by the Confederate government, from office space to training camps. The listing also includes the names of major suppliers of war materiel to the government. The list is arranged by county/city. 5 ¼" x 8 ¼" format, 49 pages, color cover, bibliography. Paperback. ------ Item # CONFPRMTVA    Price:  $10.95

ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA IN THE WORLD WAR, 1917 - 1918 - 1931, Published by the Rockingham Post No. 27, The American Legion (Harrisonburg, Va.). (reprinted 1993). 128 pages, figure, 2 photos, index. This is a complete study of the 1,226 veterans who were officially credited with active service in the Great War both abroad or at home. Included is information about units of service, brief biographies of those killed in action, and notes on awards given to Rockingham soldiers. This most thorough work will prove handy for genealogists. ------ Item # RCKVAWW    Price:  $9.95

VIRGINIA'S CIVIL WAR CASUALTIES: A ROSTER, VOLUME 1 - compiled by Thomas M. Spratt. 8½x11 457 pp. This work seeks to record all of the casualties incurred by the men in Virginia regiments during the civil War in a single source. In addition, Virginia-born men who served in other regiments and commands are also included. Volume one includes the following units:
1st Virginia Infantry
1st Battalion Virginia Infantry
2nd Virginia Infantry
3rd Virginia Infantry
4th Virginia Infantry
5th Virginia Infantry
6th Virginia Infantry
7th Virginia Infantry
8th Virginia Infantry
9th Virginia Infantry
10th Virginia Infantry
11th Virginia Infantry
12th Virginia Infantry
13th Virginia Infantry
14th Virginia Infantry
15th Virginia Infantry
16th Virginia Infantry
17th Virginia Infantry
------ Item # VACWCASRS1    Price:  $35.00

VIRGINIA'S CIVIL WAR CASUALTIES: A ROSTER, VOLUME 2 - compiled by Thomas M. Spratt. 8½x11 458 pp. This work seeks to record all of the casualties incurred by the men in Virginia regiments during the civil War in a single source. In addition, Virginia-born men who served in other regiments and commands are also included. Volume two includes the following units:
18th Virginia Infantry
19th Virginia Infantry
20th Virginia Infantry
21st Virginia Infantry
22nd Battalion Virginia Infantry
22nd Virginia Infantry
23rd Virginia Infantry
30th Virginia Infantry
31st Virginia Infantry                                                                                                  ------ Item # VACWCASRS2    Price:  $35.00

VIRGINIA REVOLUTIONARY "PUBLICK" CLAIMS - As Continental forces and Virginia militia units were engaged in winning independence, American quartermasters and provisioners struggled to provide these units with all the necessities of life, from meals and guns to meat, fodder for horses, the horses themselves, firewood, and every other type of material. Much of this was requisitioned from the civilian population and certificates were issued payable in either continental or state funds, depending on the units supplied, upon presentation to court authorities. Thousands of these certificates issued to Virginians were duly entered by the courts, and they provide a fascinating insight into the period of the Revolution. These "Publick" Claims booklets contain interesting and useful information about the contributions of ordinary people to the Revolutionary War. They provide some details of people's service in the militia or as guards for prisoners of war; they indicate where some bodies of troops were at particular times; and they identify providers of horses, wagons, cattle, grain, or other supplies. Much of the information in these booklets cannot be found anywhere else, which makes the surviving records particularly valuable. Also remarkable is the fact that records survived from virtually every county in the state at that time with the exception of the newly formed Kentucky counties. This makes the collection even more valuable in covering areas which heretofore in this time period have suffered from a lack of personal data. The "Virginia Publick Claims" are published by counties. In addition to a faithful transcription by Janice Luck Abercrombie and the late Richard Slatten, a complete index is provided for each county booklet. This series is an extremely important genealogical tool for searchers in Revolutionary-era materials.

INDEX TO THE  REVOLUTIONARY "PUBLICK" CLAIMS - Item # VARVINXPUB  Price:   $20.00

INDIVIDUAL COUNTY BOOKLETS:

VIRGINIA REVOLUTIONARY "PUBLICK" CLAIMS - now available in a deluxe library binding 1131 pages, 3 volume set. The entire set of seventy county booklets listed above, in three volumes, with a single comprehensive index at the end of volume 3. Purchased separately, the county booklets would cost ca. $450. The hard-bound version, printed on high quality, acid-free in a durable and attractive library binding with gold leaf. ------ Item # VAREVOLS3   PRICE:  $200.00

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