Alexandria: A Towne in Transition, 1800-1900, Alexandria Bicentennial Commission, 1977

A Confederate Lady Comes of Age: The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, 1863-1888, Ed. Mary D. Robertson, Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1992

A Woman's Civil War, Cornelia Peake MacDonald, Ed. Minrose C. Gwin, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1992

Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., Univ. Press of Virginia, 1995

The Civil War: A Narrative, (three-volumes) Shelby Foote, Random House, 1974

The Civil War Source Book, Philip Katcher, Facts on File, Inc., NY, 1992

Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service, H.H. Cunningham, Louisiana State University Press, 1958

Echoes of Glory Series (Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA, 1991): Arms & Equipment of the Confederacy

Echoes of Glory Series (Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA, 1991): Arms & Equipment of the Union

Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War

Eighth Virginia Infantry, John E. Divine, The Virginia Regimental Histories Series, H.E. Howard, Inc., Lynchburg, VA, 1983

Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutes on the Southern Homefront, Mary Elizabeth Massey, Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1952

The Everyday Clothing of Rural Women at the Time of the Civil War, Ary Vansteamburg, Mariah Furnace Press, Catonsville, MD, 1993

Growing Up in the 1850s: The Journal of Agnes Lee, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1984

Harpers Ferry, Stephen D. Brown, Little Brown House, Harpers Ferry, 1974

The Highland Clans, Sir Iain Montcreiffe, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., NY, 1967

The Illustrated Confederate Reader, Ed. Rod Gragg, Harper & Row, 1989

Journals of Amanda Virginia Edmonds, 1857-1867, Nancy Chappelear Baird, Commercial Press, Stephens City, VA, 1984

The Life of Billy Yank, Bell Irvin Wiley, Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1952

The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley, Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1943

Loudoun County and the Civil War, Loudoun Co. Civil War Centennial Commission, 1961

Lucy Breckinridge of Grove Hill, The Journal of a Virginia Girl, 1862-1864, Ed. Mary D. Robertson, Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1994

Mosby's Rangers, Jeffry D. Wert, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1990

The Negro's Civil War, James M. McPherson, Ballantine Books, 1965

Recollections of 92 Years (1824-1916), Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, EPM Publications, Inc., McLean, VA, 1958

Rough-Riding Scout: The Story of John W. Mobberly, Richard E. Crouch, Elden Editions, Arlington, VA, 1994

The Spy of the Rebellion by Allan Pinkerton, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1989

To Talk is Treason: Quakers of Waterford, Virginia, John E. Divine, Bronwen C. Souders & John M. Souders, The Waterford Foundation, 1996

Women in The Civil War, Mary Elizabeth Massey, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1966

Weevels in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves, Ed. Charles L. Perdue, Jr., Thomas E. Barden and Robert K. Phillips, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1976

Who Wore What? Women's Wear 1861-1865, Juanita Leisch, Thomas Publications, 1995

The Wonderful World of Ladies' Fashion: 1850-1920, Ed. Joseph J. Schroeder, Jr., Follett Publishing Co., Chicago, 1971

Ye Meeting Hous Smal, a Short Account of Friends of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1732-1980, Werner and Asa Moore Janney, 1980

From the Thomas Balch Library of Loudoun County History, Leesburg, VA:

The Democratic Mirror (Loudoun County Civil War-era newspaper)

Manuscript: The Diary of Miss Mary E. Lack, 1861-1862

Manuscript: The Diary of Miss Virginia J. Miller, 1861-1862

Hillsboro: Memories of a Mill Town, The Hillsboro Bicentennial Committee, 1976

Legends of Loudoun, Garrett and Massie

Civil War File: Letter from Carrie Taylor, 1864

Civil War File: Letter from Tom, August 1863

From the Author's Collection:

Dictionary, 1823

Inquire Within: 3,700 Facts for the People, Garret, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1857

Martine's Handbook of Etiquette, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1866 (Note: Martine's was re-published in 1988 by R.L. Shep Publishing, Mendocino, CA)