The Stronghold: A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People

PART III--NINETEENTH CENTURY

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ROBERT E. LEE

_The Lees of Virginia_, by Burton J. Hendrick.

_The Life of General Robert E. Lee_, by James D. McCabe, Jr., published 1866.

"Stratford Hall," by Henry F. and Katharine Pringle, _Holiday Magazine_, January, 1953.

"W & L's 'Maybe Portrait'," by Sally Leverty, _Richmond Times-Dispatch_, Sunday Features, June 7, 1953.

SMITH POINT LIGHT

Blunt's _American Coast Pilot_, 1804 and 1833 issues, (courtesy of Robert H. Burgess, The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va.).

U. S. Coast Guard, Public Information Division, Washington, D. C. (Historically Famous Lighthouses.)

Capt. Clem F. Haynie, Reedville, Va.

Capt. Henry Haynie, Reedville, Va.

Miss Maggie Gough, Sunny Bank, Va.

THE RAIDERS

"Memoirs of Judge Samuel Downing," published in _Northern Neck Historical Magazine_, 1951.

_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.

"Old Virginia Bottles," by Walter J. Sparks, published in _Richmond Times-Dispatch Sunday Magazine_, 1938.

_Virginia Methodism_, by W. W. Sweet.

_Chesapeake Bay_, by M. V. Brewington, 1953.

_Virginia_, W. P. A., 1946.

Hale's _United States_, 1844.

"The Chesapeake's Million Years," by Harold A. Williams, published in _The Baltimore Sun_, October 18, 1953.

STEAMBOATS

Civil War letters (unpublished).

_The Chesapeake Bay Country_, by Sampson Earle.

_Chesapeake Bay_, by M. V. Brewington, 1953.

HANNAH AND THE FALLING STARS

As told to the writer in 1932, by: Hannah Crockett (1817-1933). A native of Northumberland County, Virginia.

_Virginia Cavalcade_, Winter, 1955.

The Diary of Governor John Floyd, of Virginia, 1833. (Virginia State Library.)

_Northern Neck News_, Warsaw, Va., February, 1931.

THE BLOCKADE

Unpublished Civil War letters (private collection).

"Annals of the War," by Col. Joseph Mayo, Hague, Va., published in _Philadelphia Public Ledger_, 1880.

Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, (correspondence).

S. Florence Covington Jett (1854-1926).

_Historically Famous Lighthouses_, published by U. S. Coast Guard.

_Chesapeake Bay_, by M. V. Brewington, 1953.

THE HOME GUARD

A notarized statement written in 1927 by a former member of the Northumberland Home Guard, Bertrand B. Haynie, Reedville, Va., addressed to the Virginia Pension Office in Richmond, and later transferred to the Archives of the Virginia State Library, Richmond. (This document was brought to the attention of the writer by Miss Eva Jett, Reedville, Va.)

"Rev. C. T. Thrift," Durham, N. C., in the Voice of the People, _Richmond Times-Dispatch_, April 5, 1952.

Incidents related to the writer by Hon. Theodore Augustus Jett (1850-1920), a member of the Northumberland Home Guard.

THE MYSTERY OF HORSE POND

As related to the writer by Hon. C. O. Hammack, Sunny Bank, Va., a grandson of Sardelia Evans.

SCHOONER IN A MILL-POND

As told to the writer in 1953 by two of Capt. Jehu's sons: Capt. Henry Haynie and Capt. Clem F. Haynie, both of Reedville, Va.

WAR BONNETS

S. Florence Covington Jett (1854-1926), a native of Northumberland County.

Estelle Betts Haynie, Reedville, Va., 1955, a native of Northumberland County.

AMANDA AND THE YANKEES

Olivia Frances Jett Williams (1874-1940).

Hannah Crocket (1817-1933). Interviewed by writer in 1932.

Bible records, letters, documents, etc.

THE HORSEHAIR RING

Olivia Frances Jett Williams (1874-1940).

Confederate Army records, Bible records, letters, obituaries, etc.

Tangible Proof: the Horsehair Ring and Confederate Note.

MIRACLE AT KETCHUM'S CAMP

S. Florence Covington Jett (1854-1926).

Hon. Theodore Augustus Jett (1850-1920), a member of the Northumberland Home Guard.

DESPERATE PASSAGE

"Rappahannock Ferry," by Turner Rose, published in _Washington Post_, March 13, 1938.

_Historic Northern Neck_, by H. Ragland Eubank.

"On the Trail of an Assassin," by Benjamin Herman, published in _Baltimore Sun Sunday Magazine_, 1954.

"America's Greatest Unsolved Murder," by Joseph Millard, published in _True Magazine_, February, 1953.

_Virginia_, W. P. A., 1946.

_The Chesapeake Bay Country_, by Sampson Earle, pp. 96-97.

AFTER THE WAR

Hon. J. J. McDonald, in _Northumberland Echo_, 1923.

S. Roland Hall, in _Northumberland Echo_, September 28, 1934.

Hon. Theodore Augustus Jett (1850-1920).

S. Florence Covington Jett (1854-1926).

SPEECH

_Warwickshire Dialect_, by Appleton Morgan.

_The Cradle of the Republic_, by Lyon G. Tyler.

Writings of Rev. Hugh Jones, A. M., 1722.

SHOPPING TRIPS

S. Florence Covington Jett (1854-1926), a native of Northumberland County, Va.

MENHADEN

_Works of Capt. John Smith_, edited by Arber.

_Economic History of Virginia in the 17th Century_, by P. A. Bruce.

_The Menhaden Industry of the Atlantic Coast_, by Rob Leon Greer, Bureau of Fisheries Document No. 811, Washington Government Printing Office, 1917.

_An Account of the Reed Family_, written by the late George N. Reed, Reedville, Virginia.

_American Fisheries: A History of The Menhaden_, by G. Brown Goode and W. O. Atwater. New York, Orange Judd Company, 245 Broadway. Pub. 1880. (The fifth annual report of the Commissioner of Fisheries.)

Capt. Henry Haynie, Reedville, Va.

W. Harold Haynie, Reedville, Va.

THE OLD STONE PILE

Miss Maggie Gough, Mrs. Ruth Dodson, Capt. Clem Haynie and Capt. Henry Haynie, all natives of Northumberland County, Va.

1939 issue of the _Light List of the South Atlantic Coast_, (courtesy of Robert Burgess, Mariners' Museum).

KEEPERS OF THE LIGHT

_Light List of the South Atlantic Coast_, 1939 issue.

Capt. J. R. Moore of the Wicomico River Light, 1952.

Miss Maggie Gough, Sunny Bank, Va., and Mrs. Ruth Dodson, Edwardsville, Va.

THE HEADLESS DOG

From many traditional accounts.

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