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SHENANDOAH, Virginia in the 1860s: 1 through 6 of 6

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  1. Southern Women's Involvement in Charitable Organizations
    date February 10, 1862map SHENANDOAH, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, War, Women

    In 1862 Sigismunda S. Kimball, from Shenandoah County, Virginia was suddenly, like so many other women of the South, thrown into a completely different world as the Civil War raged through the South. Mrs. Kimball was put in charge of her family's plantation while her husband was away at war and she kept the plantation records in a journal which she wrote in everyday. In this journal she wrote about...

  2. Southern Women's Involvement in Charitable Organizations
    date February 5, 1862 to February 20, 1862map SHENANDOAH, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, War, Women

    In 1862 Sigismunda S. Kimball, from Shenandoah County, Virginia was suddenly, like so many other women of the South, thrown into a completely different world as the Civil War raged through the South. Mrs. Kimball was put in charge of her family's plantation while her husband was away at war and she kept the plantation records in a journal which she wrote in everyday. In this journal she wrote about...

  3. West Augusta Guardsman Troubled by Enemy's Lack of Respect for Wounded Soldiers
    date March 25, 1862map SHENANDOAH, Virginiatags Wounded Soldiers, Battle, Shenandoah Valley

    Jedediah Hotchkiss wrote home to his wife, Sara Hotchkiss, on Tuesday, March 25, 1862 after a skirmish with the Union army, around Woodstock, Shenandoah County in Virginia. Hotchkiss had just received news that one of his children had passed away. He longed to be at home with his family, but said, "It is forbidden of me & it is now too late to reach you before the crisis has passed." He...

  4. Southerners Interactions With Northern Soldiers
    date March 14, 1862 to July 7, 1862map SHENANDOAH, Virginiatags Crime/Violence, War, Women

    On March 14, 1862 in Shenandoah County, Virginia three Union soldiers marched to the door of Sigismunda S. Kimball, the wife of a southern planter, and demanded supplies. The soldiers threatened Mrs. Kimball saying they had plenty of ladies prisoners and continued to torment her. On July 6, 1862 two Yankee soldiers came up to the house and demanded for the key to the corn house, saying they had orders...

  5. Bread in the South During the 1860s and 1870s
    date July 31, 1863map SHENANDOAH, Virginiatags Agriculture, Arts/Leisure, Economy

    Levi Pitman was a respectable southern gentleman living in the southern county of Shenandoah in Virginia during the Civil War. Levi kept a careful diary in which he would write the day to day activities he participated in and observed. In 1863 the Rebel soldiers were camped near Levi's home and he could go and watch them march for their leader. He and his wife met some of the soldiers and his wife...

  6. Australians Fix Privateer Ship C.S.S Shenandoah.
    date February 18, 1865 to August 20, 1865map SHENANDOAH, Virginiatags War, Navy, Shenandoah Valley

    Built in Glasgow, Scotland, with the name Sea King, the C.S.S. Shenandoah would continue the Confederate fight long after the Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered. Named after the valley and county in Virginia, the C.S.S. Shenandoah had a C.S.A letter of Marque to sail towards the Indian Ocean to seek out, capture, or destroy Union military and commercial vessels. It was hoped that the C.S.S....