HIS 282 - Supplements
Click here for an essay in which Patrick Reed tried, some years ago, to find meaning in his own Confederate connections.
Patrick Reed wrote two sections of Fairfax County, Virginia: A History, published by the Board of Supervisors in 1978. They are reprinted with permission.
We should try to exploit the following website, which includes a link to University of Virginia Professor Edward Ayers's "Valley of the Shadow" project, for which his staff and students are compiling a massive amount of material about two communities' (Staunton, Virginia, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania) involvement with the Civil War:
Class member Dick Shaw has again located several relevant websites, these featuring documents about slavery, including Nat Turner's rebellion and the reaction of Virginia Governor John Floyd:
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1826-1850/slavery/confesxx.htm
http://www.gc.cc.va.us/~gcadamj/hjch12.htm
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html#01b
In 1979, Patrick Reed published an essay in The Landscape of American History: Essays in Memoriam to Richard W. Griffin. His study of Nativism in Virginia in the 1890s is available for the interested..
Subsequent research extended this study to include Nativism in Virginia, 1900-15.
These studies were updated and expanded in New Immigrants in the New South: A Bibliographical Essay.