Valley of the Shadow: two communities in the American Civil War

The Valley of the Shadow is an electronic archive of two communities in the American Civil War--Augusta County, Va. and Franklin Co., Pa. The Valley Web site includes searchable newspapers, geographic information systems data, maps, population;census data, agricultural census data, manufacturing census data, slaveowner census data, and tax records. The Valley Web site also contains letters and diaries, images, maps, church records, and military rosters. The Valley of the Shadow will be;published in CD-ROM version by W. W. Norton & Co. in three parts. The first part Web site focuses on the coming of the Civil War, the second on the Civil War battles and homefront, and the third part on Emancipation and Reconstruction after the;war. The Valley project is a University ofVirginia research project funded in part by the National Endowment of the Humanities.