Topical History

Topical History

This section includes articles on the variety of topics covering the subject areas below. These articles often span the county boundaries and historical periods used to organize articles in the other sections of this site.

• Biographies

  • Charles R. Adair
  • Hiram Allison Alexander
  • John S. Apperson, M.D.
  • Early History of Thomas Blair
  • William Henry Bramblitt, M.D.
  • John Michael Braun
  • The memoirs of Martha Frances Caudill Brown
  • Parson Brownlow — A Patriot Among the Rebels
  • Elder Thomas Carr
  • Samuel Taylor Copenhaver
  • Cox Family in Pennsylvania
  • Josephus Newton Davis' Diary
  • James Lewis Early, M.D.
  • Tribute to Dr. E. Scott Elliott
  • Andrew Lewis Farrier
  • Thomas B. Fitzgerald
  • Letitia Floyd
  • John Goodson
  • Joseph Arthur Graybeal
  • Arthur M. Hess
  • Lula Esther Reeves Hudler
  • Capt. Samuel Johnson
  • Life Stories of Gallant Americans—The Lanes Cavaliers of the South
  • Frederic Ferguson McElhone
  • Greenberry George McKenzie
  • John A. Messer Sr
  • John A. Messer, Galax Industrialist
  • Whitfield Monroe Parker and the Civil War
  • The Parragin Story
  • James Davis Perkins
  • Paul John Phipps
  • Newton H. Plaster
  • Elder Enoch Reeves
  • Albert Lonsdale Roper
  • Paul B. Senter
  • James Whittaker
  • A Biographical Sketch of Henry A. Wise
  • Rush Floyd Young, M. D.
  • Honorable Jacob Yost
  • Biographical Sketches

• Books and Other Publications

  1600s

  • The Story of Bacon's Rebellion

  1700s

  • The Evacuation of Valley Forge
  • The Father of the American Navy
  • Journal of Captain Charles Lewis
  • Chronicle of a Southern Gentleman: Life in the Old South
  • An Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies
  • Early Revolutionary History of Virginia, 1773-1774
  • The Lancaster Convention, June 25, 1776
  • Orderly Book of Major William Heth of the Third Virginia Regiment, May 15 - July 1, 1777
  • Orderly Book of Captain Robert Gamble of the Second Virginia Regiment
  • The Battle of Kings Mountain
  • A Journey from Watauga to Freedom
  • Historical States Concerning The Battle of Kings Mountain
  • The Battle of Cowpens
  • The Battle of Guilford Court House
  • The Story of the Campaign And Siege of Yorktown
  • Richmond's First Academy
  • Directions for Preventing Calamities by FIRE

  1800s

  • Daniel Sheffey
  • Notes of a Tour from Virginia to Tennessee in the Months of July and August 1838
  • Cornstalk, The Shawnee Chief
  • The Life and Times of Jesse Franklin Black 1858-1915
  • Salt Resources of Virginia
  • The South Since the War - Chapter XIII - Affairs in Western North Carolina
  • The North Carolina Mountains
  • Mount Pisgah, North Carolina
  • The Mountain Region of North Carolina
  • Sketches of Western North Carolina—Wilkes County
  • The Life and Adventures of Wilburn Waters
  • Memoir of General Christopher Gadsden
  • Documents, Chiefly Unpublished, relating to the Hugenot Emigration to Virginia and to the Settlement at Manakin Town
  • Goodspeeds' History of Tennessee
  • Signers of the Constitution
  • The Colonial Virginian
  • Salem, Virginia: Its Advantages and Attractions
  • Memoir of General John Cropper
  • The First Election of Washington to the House of Burgesses
  • The English in Virginia
  • The Pamunkey Indians of Virginia
  • The End of an Era
  • Medical College of Virginia

  1900s

  • Foot Prints on the Sands of Time: A History of Southwestern Virginia and Northwestern North Carolina
  • Historical Sketches of Wilkes County
  • The Colonial Virginia Register
  • Colonial Capitals of the Dominion of Virginia
  • The Scotch-Irish in America
  • The Balsam Groves of the Grandfather Mountain
  • Life in Old Virginia
  • An American's Experience in the British Army
  • The History of Truro Parish in Virginia
  • Battlefield Memorials in the South (Revolutionary War)
  • History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia
  • Evolution of the Mason-Dixon Line
  • Virginia
  • First Native Martyrs in America
  • Portraits of the Founders of America
  • Pilgrimages to American Landmarks - Gunston Hall
  • Historical Sketch of Ann Pamela Cunningham
  • The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
  • The First Explorations of the Trans-Alleghany Region by the Virginians 1650- 1674
  • Chapter VI - Romantic Days in the Early Republic
  • Liquor Legislation in Connecticut Colony
  • The Carolina Mountains
  • Old Mercersburg
  • Our Southern Highlanders
  • The Rooster: Its Origin as the Emblem of the Democratic Party
  • History of Western North Carolina
  • Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County, Virginia
  • Days and Recollections of North Stonington
  • The Revolution in Virginia
  • Virginia at the Close of the Revolution
  • Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings
  • 91st Division American Expeditionary Force, World War I
  • The French and Indian War in the American South
  • Father Tabb
  • A History of Colonial Virginia: The First Permanent Colony in America
  • Historic Elements in Virginia Education and Literary Effort
  • The Glory of Yorktown
  • Memoirs of Daniel W. Cunningham
  • White Top, The Summit of Virginia
  • History of Virginia, Volume VI — Index
  • The Story of an Old Town
  • A Handbook of The Winchester Public Schools (The Handley Schools)
  • Orange County, Virginia 1734-1934
  • A Brief History of Marion College

  Undated

  • A History of Orange County, Virginia
  • The Old French Fort
  • From Tailor Shop to the White House: Life of Andrew Johnson
  • Some Unpublished Facts Relating to Bacon's Rebellion On the Eastern Shore of Virginia
  • The Old Brick Church, Near Smithfield, Virginia—Built in 1632
  • The Albemarle of Old
  • Thomas Hansford: The First Native Martyr to American Liberty

• Business and Industry

  • Thomson's Mercantile and Professional Directory — Virginia — 1851
  • Thomson's Mercantile and Professional Directory — North Carolina 1851—1852
  • Elliott and Nye's Virginia Directory and Business Register — 1852
  • Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia — 1854
  • A Geological Visit to the Virginia Copper Region — 1859
  • Branson's Directory — North Carolina — 1868
  • Statistical and Descriptive Accounty of North Carolina Counties — 1869
  • Agricultural Implements — 1874
  • Resources of South-west Virginia — 1881
  • Chataigne's Virginia Gazetteer and Classified Business Directory 1888 — 1889
  • Cato's Tavern New York — 1900
  • Fifteenth Agriculture Census of the United States — 1930
  • Colonial Monetary History
  • Occupations

• Churches and Religion

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  • General

    • History of American Baptists North Carolina — 1848
    • History of American Baptists Virginia — 1848
    • History of the Blue Ridge Baptist Association — 1920—1934
    • Catholic Church in the District of Columbia — 1909
    • The Catholic Church in Virginia — 1929
    • Catholic World — History of a Conversion — 1887
    • Christian Unity Baptist Association — 1935—1975
    • District of Columbia Baptists — 1848
    • Early Religion in the Upper New River Valley
    • History of the Fisher's River Primitive Baptist Association — 1832—1904
    • The Macedonia Baptist Association — 1910
    • Excerpts From Moravian Diaries — 1804
    • Minutes of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association — 1800
    • Minutes of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association — 1865
    • Minutes of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association — 1872
    • Minutes of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association — 1896
    • Minutes of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association — 1905
    • History of the Mountain Union Baptist Association
    • Minutes of the Mountain Union Baptist Association — 1880
    • Minutes of the Mountain Union Baptist Association — 1890
    • New River Baptist Association — 1871—1977
    • Minutes of the New River Baptist Association — 1881
    • Minutes of the New River Baptist Association — 1901
    • Primitive Baptist Faith and Practices
    • Minutes of the Roaring River Baptist Association — 1887
    • Minutes of the Senter Primitive Baptist Association — 1946
    • History of the Washington District Regular Primitive Baptist Association — 1811—1951

  • North Carolina

    • Churches of Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga Counties, North Carolina
    • Ashe Baptist Association — 1886—1897
    • Ashe Baptist Association — 1898
    • Ashe Baptist Association — 1974 Map of the Churches
    • Beaver Creek Christian Church — 1890
    • History of Buffalo Baptist Church — 1999
    • Minutes of the Carolina Primitive baptist Association — 1928
    • Mount Paddy Church of Christ in Christian Union — 1985
    • Fletcher Memorial Baptist Church — 1982
    • Friendly Grove Baptist Church — 1982
    • History of the Grassy Creek Baptist Church — 1991
    • An Act to Incorporate Greenwood Methodist Church In Ashe County — 1887
    • Minutes of the Jefferson Baptist Association — 1848
    • Minutes of the Jefferson Baptist Association — 1853
    • Minutes of the Jefferson Baptist Association — 1856
    • Minutes of the Jefferson Baptist Association — 1868
    • Minutes of the Jefferson Baptist Association — 1869
    • Minutes of the Lebanon, Jefferson and United Baptist Associations Convention — 1870
    • Maple Springs Primitive Baptist Church
    • New River Baptist Church — 1979
    • A Brief History of North Beaver Baptist Church — 1983
    • Obids Baptist Church — 1979
    • Pond Mountain Primitive Baptist Church Minute Book 1 1881—1933
    • Minutes of the Senter District Primitive Baptist Association — 1879
    • Membership Records of the Senter Primitive Baptist Church 1829—1924
    • Minutes of Stony Fork Baptist Association — 1860
    • Three Forks Baptist Association and Three Forks Baptist Church
    • Wilkes County, Primitive Baptist Association — 1868—1969
    • Minutes of the First Annual Session of the Primitive Baptist Association — 1869
    • A Brief History of the West Jefferson First Baptist Church — 1938

  • Virginia

    • Virginia Primitive Baptist Churches
    • History of Abingdon Presbytery — 1936
    • Coulson Church of the Brethren
    • Grayson County and Galax Churches
    • Planting of the Presbyterian Church in Northern Virginia — 1794
    • Pohick Episcopal Church
    • St. Clair's Bottom Primitive Baptist Church Covenant — 1791
    • Surviving Members of the St. Clair's Bottom Church — 1831

• Government

  • Miscellaneous Southwest Virginia Land Grants
  • Virginia Agricultural Council of Safety — 1917—1919

• Medical

  • The Red Cross Magazine July 1917
  • Civil War and 19th Century Medical Terminology
  • Old Remedies
  • Upper New River Valley Medicine
  • Constitution and By-Laws of the Southwest Virginia Registered Nurses' Association

• Natural History and Geography

  • Forest Conditions in Western North Carolina — 1911
  • Regional Maps ca. 1920
  • Common Forest Trees of Virginia — 1928
  • Natural Resources of New River Valley

• Organizations

  • Virginia School Commissioners — 1846
  • Virginia Public Guard — 1847
  • Catalogue of Shoemaker College, Gate City, Virginia
  • Virginia Legal Advisory Boards 1917 — 1919
  • American Legion Posts of Virginia — 1924 Index
  • Virginia Masonic Lodges — 1933
  • Grayson County, Virginia Masonic Lodges — 1933
  • Southwestern Virginia Masonic Lodges — 1933
  • Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. M. of Virginia

• People

  • Upper New River Valley Ethnicity
  • Indian Tribes of the Mid-Atlantic States

• Wars and Military

  • Virginia Adjutant General's Report — 1847
  • Uniform & Dress of the Army of the United States — 1851

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  • Revolutionary War

    • The Draper Papers — Upper New River Valley References
    • New River Valley Revolutionary War militia
    • Jesse Toliver Revolutionary War Pension Application
    • Thomas Epperson Revolutionary War Pension Application (S4282)
    • Mary Hammons Johnson Revolutionary War Pension Application
    • Battles of the American Revolution
    • Capture and Rescue of Benjamin Cleveland

  • War of 1812

    • Principal Events of the War of 1812
    • Ashe County, 5th North Carolina Militia
    • 56th Virginia Militia — 1814—1816
    • The Petersburg Volunteers 1812—1813

  • Spanish American War

    • Battery A, Pennsylvania Volunteer Artillery — 1898
    • First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry
    • 14th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry — 1898
    • 15th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry — 1898
    • U.S. Warships of the Spanish American War

  • World War I

    • "With the American Ambulance in France"
    • American Battle Casualties in World War I
    • The First to the Front — World War I
    • Floyd County, Virginia Military Service During World War I
    • Forgotten Fights of the A. E. F.
    • Glossary, World War I Terminology
    • The Red Cross Magazine
    • Divisional Statistics for American Forces — World War I
    • Meuse-Argonne Begins
    • North Carolina Military Deaths in World War I
    • Order of Battle — American Forces — World War I
    • Order of Battle (Unit Structure) — American Forces — World War I
    • World War I Training Facilities
    • Plattsburg, New York Training Camp, 1917
    • Smyth County, Virginia World War I Enlistments
    • Virginia Communites in War Time
    • Virginia — Draft Registration Boards — World War I
    • World War I — Virginia — Government Appeal Agents
    • World War I — Virginia — Medical Advisory Boards
    • Muster Rolls of the Virginia Volunteers 1917-1920
    • Personnel of the First Virginia Council of Defense — 1917
    • Grayson County, Virginia, World War Memorial

  • World War II

    • Grayson County, Virginia, World War Memorial
    • Northwest North Carolina World War II Deaths
    • Virginia World War II Deaths