History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia

History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia

know not when I first planned this work, so inextricably is the idea interwoven with a fading recollection of my earliest aims and ambitions. However, had I not been resolutely determined to conclude it at any costmental, physical, or pecuniarythe difficulties that I have experienced at every stage might have led to its early abandonment. The greatest difficulty lay in procuring material which could not be supplied by individual research and investigation. For this and other valid reasons that will follow it may safely be said that more than one-half the contents of this volume are in the strictest sense original, the remarks and detail, for the most part, being the products of my own personal observation and reflection. Correspondence with individuals and the State and National authorities, though varied and extensive, elicited not a half dozen important facts. I would charge no one with discourtesy in this particular, and mention the circumstance only because it will serve to emphasize what I shall presently say anent the scarcity of available material. Likewise, a painstaking perusal of more than two hundred [10]volumes yielded only meagre results, and in most of these illusory references I found not a single fact worth recording. This comparatively prodigious number included gazeteers, encyclopedias, geographies, military histories, general histories, State and National reports, journals of legislative proceedings, biographies, genealogies, reminiscences, travels, romancesin short, any and all books that I had thought calculated to shed even the faintest glimmer of light on the County's history, topographical features, etc. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 17485
Author: Head, James William
Release Date: Jan 9, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English