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• West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• West Virginia -- History -- Periodicals
• West Virginia -- History -- To 1950
• West Virginia -- Biography
• West Virginia -- Church history
• West Virginia -- Genealogy
• West Virginia -- History, Local
• Berkeley County (W. Va.) -- History
• Grant County (W. Va.) -- History
• Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History
• Mineral County (W. Va.) -- History
• Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History
• Episcopal Church -- West Virginia -- History

• Prominent Men of West Virginia (Wheeling, WV: W. L. Callin, 1890), by Geo. W. Atkinson and Alvaro F. Gibbens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• "The Spirit of 1861": History of the Sixth Indiana Regiment in the Three Months' Campaign in Western Virginia (Madison, IN: Courier Print, 1875), by Andrew J. Grayson (multiple formats at Indiana)

• The Valley Campaigns: Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant While Between the Lines in the Shenandoah Valley During the War of the States, by Thomas A. Ashby (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• War Memoirs: Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States (Civil War centennial series; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, c1960), by Jubal Anderson Early, ed. by Frank E. Vandiver, contrib. by R. H. Early (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1912), by Jubal Anderson Early, ed. by R. H. Early
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• War Memoirs: Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States (Civil War centennial series; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, c1960), by Jubal Anderson Early, ed. by Frank E. Vandiver, contrib. by R. H. Early (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1912), by Jubal Anderson Early, ed. by R. H. Early
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• West Virginia History (partial serial archives)

• Index to West Virginiana (Charleston, WV: Education Foundation, Inc., c1960), by Robert F. Munn (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chronicles of Border Warfare: or, A History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in That Section of the State; With Reflections, Anecdotes, &c. (new edition, with a memoir of the author; Cincinnati: R. Clarke Co., 1895), by Alexander Scott Withers, ed. by Reuben Gold Thwaites, contrib. by Lyman Copeland Draper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Rending of Virginia: A History (with new introduction; Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2000), by Granville Davisson Hall, contrib. by John E. Stealey (PDF at Tennessee)
• A History of Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory (1906), by David E. Johnston (HTML at kinyon.com)
• Plain Facts: Being an Examination Into the Rights of the Indian Nations of America to Their Respective Countries (Philadelphia: Printed and sold by R. Aitken, 1781), by Samuel Wharton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• View of the Title to Indiana: A Tract of Country on the River Ohio (ca.1775), by Samuel Wharton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• View of the Title to Indiana: A Tract of Country on the river Ohio (Philadelphia: Printed by Styner and Cist, 1776), by Samuel Wharton (HTML at Evans TCP)
• View of the Title to Indiana: A Tract of Country on the River Ohio (Williamsburg: Printed by J. Dixon and T. Nicolson, 1779), by Samuel Wharton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Prominent Men of West Virginia (Wheeling, WV: W. L. Callin, 1890), by Geo. W. Atkinson and Alvaro F. Gibbens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A History and Record of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of West Virginia, and, Before the Formation of the Diocese in 1878, in the Territory Now Known as the State of West Virginia (1902), by Geo. W. Peterkin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of West Virginia, by Episcopal Church Diocese of West Virginia (partial serial archives)
• Official Journal and Minutes of the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by Methodist Episcopal Church, West Virginia Conference (partial serial archives)

• Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: A History of Frederick County, Virginia (Illustrated) From its Formation in 1738 to 1908 (Winchester, VA: Printed by the Eddy Press Corp., c1909), by T. K. Cartmell (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Mt. Storm Community (in Grant and Mineral Counties, West Virginia) (1927), by D. W. Idleman (HTML at wvculture.org)

• Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: A History of Frederick County, Virginia (Illustrated) From its Formation in 1738 to 1908 (Winchester, VA: Printed by the Eddy Press Corp., c1909), by T. K. Cartmell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Histories of 58 West Virginia Communities, ed. by WebRoots Inc. (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Chronicles of Old Berkeley: A Narrative History of a Virginia County From its Beginnings to 1926 (Durham, NC: Seeman Press, 1938), by Mabel Henshaw Gardiner and Ann Henshaw Gardiner (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Mt. Storm Community (in Grant and Mineral Counties, West Virginia) (1927), by D. W. Idleman (HTML at wvculture.org)

• The Natick Resolution: or, Resistance to Slaveholders the Right and Duty of Southern Slaves and Northern Freemen (Boston: Printed for the author, 1859), by Henry Clarke Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Correspondence Between Lydia Maria Child and Gov. Wise and Mrs. Mason, of Virginia (Boston: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860), by Lydia Maria Child, contrib. by Henry A. Wise, Maria Jefferson Carr Randolph Mason, and John Brown
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Testimonies of Capt. John Brown, at Harper's Ferry, With His Address to the Court (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860), by John Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Report [of] the Select Committee of the Senate Appointed to Inquire into the Late Invasion and Seizure of the Public Property at Harper's Ferry, by United States Senate Select Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion (page images at MOA)
• Young Howells and John Brown: Episodes in a Radical Education (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Edwin Harrison Cady (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Anti-Slavery History of the John-Brown Year: Being the Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society (with two distinct title pages; New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1861), by American Anti-Slavery Society (multiple formats at Google)
• The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked. By a Virginian (Richmond: Smith, Bailey & Co., Sentinel Office, 1865), by William McDonald (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• History of Mt. Storm Community (in Grant and Mineral Counties, West Virginia) (1927), by D. W. Idleman (HTML at wvculture.org)

• A History of the Valley of Virginia (third edition; Woodstock, VA: W. N. Grabill, 1902), by Samuel Kercheval (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Massanutten, Settled by the Pennsylvania Pilgrim, 1726: The First White Settlement in the Shenandoah Valley (Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, c1924), by Harry M. Strickler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: A History of Frederick County, Virginia (Illustrated) From its Formation in 1738 to 1908 (Winchester, VA: Printed by the Eddy Press Corp., c1909), by T. K. Cartmell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Valley Ulsterman: A Chapter of Virginia History, by Armistead C. Gordon (HTML at libraryireland.com)

• Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of West Virginia, by Episcopal Church Diocese of West Virginia (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Index to West Virginiana (Charleston, WV: Education Foundation, Inc., c1960), by Robert F. Munn (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The West Virginia Hand-Book and Immigrant's Guide (Parkersburg: Gibbens Bros., 1870), by J. H. Diss Debar
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Resources of West Virginia, by West Virginia State Board of Centennial Managers (page images at MOA)

• Resources of West Virginia, by West Virginia State Board of Centennial Managers (page images at MOA)

• Ring of Fire II (included on a Baen CD image; 2008), ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
• 1634: The Baltic War (included on a Baen CD image; c2007), by Eric Flint and David Weber
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• 1634: The Ram Rebellion (included on a Baen CD image; c2006), by Eric Flint and Virginia Easley DeMarce
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• 1632, by Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• Ring of Fire, ed. by Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)

• West Virginia Imprints, 1790-1863: A Checklist of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals, and Broadsides (West Virginia Library Association publication #1; 1958), ed. by Delf Norona (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Public Addresses, etc., of Geo. W. Atkinson, Governor of West Virginia, During His Term of Office (Charleston, WV: Public printer, 1901), by Geo. W. Atkinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Recollections of a '49er, by Edward Washington McIlhany (HTML at LOC)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.