The valley of the shadow deals with digital history detailing experiences of confederate soldiers from Augusta country, Virginia and the Union soldiers from the Franklin country, Pennsylvania. The daughters of the Confederacy in Maryland held a common and fruitful bazaar in the fifth regiment armory, Baltimore, December 2nd. The valley of the shadow explains the history the citizens especially the blacks had to go.
The church tells of a spiritual life of a community to connections and dissonances. They kept records of the members making notes of the marriage, baptism, births, and death. They detailed excommunication and extraordinary events in lives of their parishioners, while some churches never kept any records.
Most of the churches did not own buildings instead they gathered when a traveling priest came in their area. In 1995-1996, the valley project searched churches of Franklin and Augusta counties for the book record. All the religion and politics gets represented by the contributors to the monument funds (Emerson 45).
Evans-Siberts family lived in Augusta country, Virginia. The family practiced iron business through which they earned their daily bread. Mary Ann who was also called Mollie, eventually married David Evans in 1870 and they proceeded to live with their family in Mount Solon.
During the Eve of the War three, letters to Mollie exposed the concerns of the young adults. Ella used to write to wrote to Mollie as a mutual friend meanwhile, Samuel Coyner tells used to tell his precedent follies and the current sobriety and his experience in the company. The family underwent a lot of problems because of being free blacks. Discrimination of the blacks rose with time as their elimination got higher.
In the course of the war, Clinton Hatcher used to write several letters to Mary Anna Sibert, discussing the hatred between the northern and southern groups of abolitionists. He expressed his readiness to kill the union soldiers. Later he discussed Sibert’s life in mount Solon mutually with an explanation on her family as well as her character for flirtatiousness (Mohr 55).
The free blacks got reminded of their status within the slave society. The state legislature commanded them to register at the courthouse in January 1803. The second law designed to control the free black population that required freed slave depart the state within one year of their liberation.
This law got modified to give a chance to the local courts and grant persons permission to remain. The free blacks needed to record their age, name, color and visible birth marks. Unlike the census, the burden laid on free blacks included of registering as well as to pay a fee for registration.
The order from General J.E Johnston’s to captain Ashab Johnson commanded Harper’s having relieved Colonel (Brigadier-General 76). Ashby at the Belgin Bridge the order of June 8, 1861 directed Harper to be burned. Johnsons evacuated Harper’s for carrying out his duties efficiently. The life of soldier before and during the war dictated the life of the community. May 1862 the first Maryland Infantry under the Major-General Elwell joins Jackson at this time. (Lida 17)
Slave-owner census in Augusta County counted the number of slaves using their gender and color without recording their names. The owner’s name got recorded as well as database for all information which enclosed the slave owner’s survey. Data base information got recorded in the newspaper transcription. The newspaper kept a record of the entire event that took place in before and after valley of the shadow (Conrad 31).
The free black found in Shenandoah Valley got treated in an inferior way of life and status. The occupational opportunity differed between the two communities that included the white and the blacks. However, free Africa-America got confined to manual jobs.
The whites, on the other hand, involved themselves in white color jobs and to cover this unfairness they employed few free blacks to work together with them. The free blacks got shut out from the defenses of the semi-skilled profession notable exception occurred. Robert Campbell, a black citizen found successful employment as a barber in Staunton. This shows that black citizens, in some part of the Northern end of the valley emerged to be successful (Jefferson 90).
Free black citizens in the valley of Shenandoah got regarded as invisible in member of the community. Government records of the two countries confirm that free blacks did not enjoy occupational or material opportunity. In Franklin the population of the blacks approximately added to 1,222 citizens in the 1860 census (Bender 12).
The rest of the members lived as slaves and depended on the pay they got in their day to day work. The free blacks got involved in farming as this constituted a large part of the valley prosperity and wealth. In 1860 census, 1,411 people listed in Frankin country involved themselves in farming (Arthur 14).
Staunton and Chamberburg listed in Franklin country as the most agricultural productive region. Franklin involved itself in agricultural production and the products sold the outside communities. The blacks offered ready labor to the farms both semi-skilled and unskilled laborers.
Work Cited
Arthur, Ware, S. Augusta Street United Methodist Church. Augusta: U.P. 2003. Print.
Bender, Welsh. Troops from both the North and South Trod Streets of Waynesboro During the Hectic War Years. Virginia: U.P. 2000. Print.
Conrad, William G. A History of Blacks in Greencastle, Pennsylvania. 2003. Print.
Emerson, Nancy. Memoranda of Events, Thoughts. UK: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Print.
Jefferson, Peter. Census for Augusta County. Virginia: U.P. 2006. Print.
Lida, Wihoy. Agricultural Societies in Franklin County. Virginia: Pittsbur Press.2004. Print.
Mohr, Richard C. The Cormany Diaries: A Northern Family in the Civil War. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. Print.