A Message from the Editors [PDF 249K]

“The original purchase was blood, and mine shall seal the surrender”: The Importance of Place in Botetourt County’s Resolutions, 1775 [PDF 426K]
Sarah E. McCartney

The War in Words: Union and Confederate Civil War Military Camp Newspapers in Western Virginia [PDF 684K]
Stewart Plein

Life on Poorhouse Knob: Poor-relief in Montgomery County, Virginia, 1830−1860 [PDF 614K]
Jennifer A. Gallagher

A Summary of Nineteenth-Century Smithfield, Part 2: The Early War Years, 1861−1862 [PDF 681K]
Laura Jones Wedin

Book Review: Facing Freedom Examines Lives of Post-Civil War African Americans in Montgomery County, Virginia [PDF 188K]
Clara B. Cox

Index to Volume 23 [PDF 274K]
Clara B. Cox