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

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

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