Our Bulletins
The historical journal of the Augusta County Historical Society, Augusta Historical Bulletin, has been published continuously since 1964. From the first issue until 1999, the journal was published semi-annually, in the spring and the fall. Beginning in 2000, the society has gone to a larger, annual publication that is perfect bound, meaning it has a spine. The Bulletin ranges in length from 125-200 pages depending upon the number of manuscripts and illustrations which have been submitted. Bulletin editors are Nancy Sorrells and Katharine Brown - klbrown@cfw.com, and Dan Metreaux). To make an inquiry regarding a potential submission, contact either editor by email. To receive a copy of the Bulletin style sheet, contact the ACHS office manager, P.O. Box 686, Staunton, VA 24402 or augustachs@ntelos.net or click here.

2000 Bulletin

1. Virginia Lincolns by Dr. Philip C. Stone
2. History and Heritage of Fishburne Military School by Joseph Bryon Yount III
3. The Battle of the Bridge, September 28, 1864 by Samuel E. Grove
4. Fine Furniture Reproductions of James Edward “Ed” Hall, Jr. of Greenville and Clifton Forge, Va., 1932-1982 by Keith Hall
5. Diary and message book of Signalman Charles Coatsworth Phillips, II Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States Army
6. The journals of Maggie B. Humphries of Vesuvius, Va., transcribed by William A. Magee
7. “In So Short a Time & To So Much Advantage:” The Rise of the Mathews Family among the Blue Ridge Gentry by Carol Ebel

2001 Bulletin

1. “The Best Thoroughfare in the South” The Valley Turnpike, 1834-1918 by Dr. Kenneth Keller
2. Views on Education and the Free Public School System in Staunton and Augusta County, 1840-1900 by Amy Harris
3. The journals of Maggie B. Humphries of Vesuvius, Virginia, transcribed by William A. Magee
4. Grandma Moses & Alfred Anson: Late Immigrants to Augusta County by the Reverend Edward M. Covert
5. Grandma Moses letter in the ACHS archives
6. History of Marquis’s Battery by Benjamin T.H. Hodges and edited by Robert J. Driver, Jr.
7. The Wood & Glass Families of Frederick County: A Shenandoah Valley Legacy by Leila Boyer
8. Staunton and the Boer War by Richard Hamrick
9. The Valley’s Historic Railroad: Tracing the History of the B&O by Stacey Baker
10. Index to Death Notices in the Staunton Spectator, 1883 Compiled by Anne C. Kidd

2002 Bulletin

1. Reflections of Valley History in the Waters of the Mossy Creek by Dr. Charles W. Blair
2. Daniel Womelsdorff at Mossy Creek, 1795-1804 by Carole Womeldorf Komarek
3. The Struggle for Civil Rights in Staunton and Augusta County by Josie Dull
4. Waynesboro Port Republic Road Historic District by Vera Haley
5. Relic of Two Revolutions by Dr. Turk McCleskey
6. Origins of the Psalmody-Hymnody Controversy in Presbyterian meeting houses in 18th-century Virginia by Dr. Jane Moore Bolen
7. Samuel Carson, the Immortal 600, and Old Providence in the Civil War by J. Susanne Simmons
8. Augusta County, Virginia, Marriages compiled by Anne C. Kidd

2003 Bulletin

1. “Staunton and the Confederate Defense of Richmond in the Spring of 1862,” by William J. Miller
2. “John Craig: Augusta’s Frontier Minister,” by Katharine L. Brown
3. “Abstracted ‘Mc’ Surnames from Augusta County Will Book No. 1,” compiled by Jane Jordan Sherman
4. “Marines in the Valley, 1923,” by Richard M. Hamrick, Jr.
5. “Augusta County’s Historic Bridges,” by Ann B. Miller and Bill Bushman
6. “The Forgotten Natural Disasters of Staunton and Augusta County,” by Alex Davis
7. “Looking Back – A History of a spring: Mount Solon’s Blue Hole,” by Laura Ragland
8. “Rockingham’s Blue Hole,” by Elizabeth Payne
9. “All of ‘em had to be belled”: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of cattle drives and grazing in western Virginia,” by Nancy Sorrells
10. “Early family life in the Valley: Archaeology at an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century farmstead in the Shenandoah Valley,” by Thomas F. Higgins, III
11. “Reminiscences of two Augusta Mills
12. “Death Notices from the Staunton Spectator 1884,” compiled by Anne C. Kidd

2004 Bulletin

1. “The Augusta County Historical Society: A brief history of its first forty years,” by Joseph B. Yount III
2. “Human rights pioneer William Sheppard: An African-American from Augusta County,” by William E. Phipps
3. “The Howardsville Turnpike,” by Robert P. Kyle
4. “The spiritual journal of William Campbell, 1786, “ transcription and introduction by the Rev. James A. Campbell
5. “Henry Miller lived eight years with me in my father’s house”  Henry Miller, Daniel Boone, and the Draper Manuscripts, by Diana Lehman and Bob Stewart
6. “The Corps of Discovery’s Augusta County Blacksmiths,” by Chris Furr
7. “Documents from the David L. Cash collection,” transcribed by John Heatwole
8. “An unknown white waif,” by Pastor Jo Ann Snapp Leifeste
9. “Death Notices from the Staunton Spectator 1885,” compiled by Anne C. Kidd

2005 Bulletin

1. Valley of the Shadow: Life in Augusta County on the eve of war by Dr. Edward Ayers
2. Grandma Moses in the Shenandoah Valley: Nov. 1887-Dec. 1905 by Franklin Johnston
3. The Stonewall Brigade Band celebrates 150th anniversary
4. General Grant’s outspoken comments on Lee, Jackson, and the conduct of the Civil War by  Dr. Daniel A. Métraux
5. The people laughed: Humorous stories from the Uplands of the Virginias by John Heatwole
6. Index to Death Notices in the Staunton Spectator for 1886 compiled by Anne C. Kidd
7. Staunton’s Newtown by Dr. Katharine Brown

2006 Bulletin

1. Virginia Facing Reality: The 1959 Perrow Commission by George M. Cochran
2. Frontier forts of western Virginia by Drs. W. Stephen and Kim A. McBride
3. The process of a local history internship: Searching for Mattie Jordan by Kimberly McCray
4. Montgomery Hall Park turns sixty years old by the Daily News Leader staff writers
5. Elliott Knob Firetower by Nancy Sorrells
6. Native American Writers in Augusta County by Susan Blair Green

2007 Bulletin

1. Treasures under foot: Henry C. Mercer’s Moravian tiles in Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta County by Dr. Kenneth Keller
2. “Inhabitant with good people:” The early residents of Virginia by Nancy Egloff
3. William Alphonso Murrill and the natural history of Staunton at the end of the nineteenth century by Madison Brown, YuLee Larner, and Mark Gatewood
4. The quest for a higher ideal: Abolition or saving the union? The debate over the great Compromise of 1850 by Dr. Daniel A. Métraux
5. The Tye River and Blue Ridge Turnpike by Robert P. Kyle
6. Finding Landmarks in old Uniontown village by Julius W. Gaines
7. Book reviews: (all by Dr. Daniel A. Métraux):

Godfrey Hodgson, Woodrow Wilson’s Right-hand Man: The Life of Edward M. House
Joe Nutt, Historic Houses of Augusta County, Va.
Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through his Private letters
James L. Huston, Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democracy and Equality
Edward P. Crapol, John Tyler: Accidental President
Logan Ward, See you in a hundred years

2008 Bulletin

1. All Men are Created Equal: Thomas Jefferson and 'The Weaker Sex' By Jon Kukla
2. 'The Great Unappreciated Man': A Survey of the Life and Times of Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart By Scott H. Harris
3. History's Mysteries By Charles Culberston
4. An introduction of the Cast Iron Plow into Virginia By Robert P. Kyle
5. What Happened to the Apple Industry in Augusta County? By Keith S. Yoder
6. Virginia Valley Orchard Co., Inc., Stuarts Draft, Virginia By Vera Hailey
7. The Campaign for Eugenics in Virginia: The Influence of Dr. J.S. DeJarnette By Amanda D. Brocato
8. Book Reviews (By Daniel A. Métraux)

(All reviews by Daniel A. Metraux unless noted)
1) Ann Smart Martin, Buying Into the World of Goods....118 (Review by Ed Covert)
2) James O. Lehman and Steven M. Nolt, Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War...119 (Review by Ralph H. Ruedy)
3) Miriam Joan Kinkead Hendricks, Our Early American Kinkeads (Review by Patricia Thompson)...121
4) John R. Hildebrand, The Life and Times of John Brown Baldwin...124
5) John Kukla, Mr. Jefferson's Women...128
6) Charles Culbertson, Staunton, VA: Another Treasury of Historic Tales...129
7) Gordon Barlow (ed.), Following the Tradiition: Celebrating the Artisans of the Contemporary Long Rifle Association...131
8) Alan Pell Crawford, Twilight at Monticello...132
9) Stephen Budiansky, The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox...134
10) Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering...137
11) Dorothy Boyd-Bragg (ed.), Portals to Shenandoah Valley Folkways...139
12) Joseph Wheelan, Mr. Adam's Last Crusade...141
13) Orville Vernon Burton, The Age of Lincoln...144
14) Cathryn J. Prince, Burn the Town and Sack the Banks: Confederates Attack Vermont...145
15) Rody Johnson, In their Footsteps: Explorers, Warriors, Capitalists and Politicians of West Virginia...147
16) Owen Harner and Wayne Garber, The History of New Hope, VA...148

Reviews in Brief (By Daniel Metraux...150
Raymond Robetson, More Tales from the Trenches; Laton McCartney, The Teapot Dome Scandal; Kenneth Ackerman, Boss Tweed; Joseph Persico, Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherford, and Other Remarkable Women in his Life
 

2009 Bulletin

1. Commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Birth by the Augusta County Historical Society
2. The Lincoln Years in the White House: By Dr. William Seale
3. Why Lincoln Matters: By Dr. Phillip C. Stone
4. Notes on Trips to Virginia by Herbert Kellar: Discovered and transcribed by Robert Kyle
5. "In the Attic": Gilpin Willson Jr.: By Beth Huffer
6. The Barbour Democratic Convention in Staunton in June of 1832: By Dr. Daniel A. Métraux
7. Augusta County Ironmaking: By Chris Furr
8. The Twilight of the Valley Campaign: The Battle of Waynesboro: By N. Douglas Payne Jr
9. Camp Rattlesnake: An Integrated Camp in a Segregated Society: By Sally Zaragoza
10. Book Reviews (By Daniel A. Métraux)

Harold Holzer, Lincoln President Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession  Winter, 1860-1861
Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American  Family
Edmund D. Potter, A Guide to Historic Staunton, Virginia
Deidre Hiner, Voices of Small Town Business: Portraits of Monterey,  Virginia
Alice Davis Wood, Dorothea Dix and Dr. Francis T.    Stribling
Julius W. Gaines, Old Uniontown--Glances     Backwards
Joe Nutt & Marney Gibbs, Historic Houses of Staunton, Virginia
Nicolaus Mills, Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan
Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Mr. & Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth Century Family Moved out of Slavery

ACHS Bulletin Index 1965-1984

ACHS Bulletin Index 1985-1999