Annals of Augusta County Virginia from 1726 to 1871

This is the standard history of Augusta County Virginia which at one time extended from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Mississippi River east and west and from the Great Lakes on the north to the northern boundary of the present state of Tennessee on the south. Waddell arranges Augusta County's history according to its political milestones thus we have chapters on the county's first settlement first courts Indian wars Augusta County in the Revolution and of course a number of chapters on Augusta County in the Civil War. Genealogists will most appreciate the discussion of the migration trail out of Augusta County and interspersed throughout the work genealogical and biographical sketches of the following Augusta County families: Adams Alexander Anderson Baxter Bell Blackburn Bowyer Breckenridge Brown Cameron Campbell Christian Craig Crawford Cummings Cunningham Doak Fleming Floyd Gamble Graham Hamilton Harrison Hays Jones Lyle McClanahan McDowell McKee McLaughlin McNutt Madison Mathews Moffett Moore Nelson Poage Preston Smith Stuart Tate Trimble Waddell Warwick and Wilson.