Randy Cabell said: Ed Ayers at UVA did some excellent work some years ago, but I don't think it was recognized nor the ideas picked up as they should have been. --- Have you looked lately at Ed's Website? http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/ Impressive collection of data on two counties in the Shenandoah Valley, including some maps. If you want to know anything at all about Augusta Co, VA, or Franklin Co, PA, in the Civil War era, it's there. Much of it is on a CD-ROM published by W.W. Norton under the title _The Valley of the Shadow_. Ed will have a new book out, probably sometime in 2001, same title, I think. Kathleen Much [log in to unmask] To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html.