John Preston Sheffey and the Civil War in Southwestern Virginia
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2005
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Montgomery County Branch Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Pocahontas Press, Inc.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of History
Pocahontas Press, Inc.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of History
Abstract
Sheffey wrote a long sequence of revealing letters that were only recently discovered and published. The article is particularly appropriate for this journal because John Preston Sheffey was the great-grandson of Colonel William Preston and his wife Susana, the founders of Smithfield.
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History, Southwest Virginia, Blue Ridge