Author: Gary Walker
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Keywords: valleys, viginia, raid, fiery, hunter
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2008-02-29
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1589805755
ISBN-13: 9781589805750

"I am impressed with the author’s research, and his ability to capture the times. I could smell the burning homes and feel the wrath of the civilians caught in the scorched-earth policy of Union general ’Black Dave’ Hunter." --The Midwest Book Review Union general David Hunter redefined warfare in the South during the Civil War and helped make the War Between the States one of America’s bloodiest conflicts in history. He was known throughout the Confederacy as "the Northern general all Southerners love to hate," and this was a title he earned to the fullest. Befor

Author: United States Bureau of the CensusUnited State Bu
Publisher: Clearfield Co
Keywords: viginia, records, state, enumerations, year, states, families, first, census, united, heads
Number of Pages: 189
Published:
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0806303441
ISBN-13: 9780806303444

No other official record or group of records is as historically significant as the 1790 census of the United States. The taking of this census marked the inauguration of a process that continues right up to our own day--the enumeration at ten-year intervals of the entire American population. In its very continuity the census is a mirror image of the evolution of the American republic, and the census of 1790, the first official enumeration of all heads of household residing in the infant republic, is the true starting point of this process, the place where we can point a finger and say with con