Values Corn and Wheat Oats, Rye, and Buckwheat Hay and Forage Crops Miscellaneous Crops, etc. Orchard Fruits, etc. Small Fruits, etc. Flowers, Ornamental Plants, etc. FARM LABOR AND FERTILIZERS Labor Fertilizers EDUCATION AND RELIGION Education Religion Historical Department. FORMATION DERIVATION OF NAME SETTLEMENT AND PERSONNEL EARLY HABITS, CUSTOMS, AND DRESS Habits Customs Dress FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR REPRESENTATION Colonial Assemblies State Conventions THE REVOLUTION Loudoun's Loyalty Resolutions of Loudoun County Revolutionary Committees Soldiery Quaker Non-Participation Loudoun's Revolutionary Hero Army Recommendations Court Orders and Reimbursements Close of the Struggle WAR OF 1812 The Compelling Cause State Archives at Leesburg THE MASON-MCCARTY DUEL HOME OF PRESIDENT MONROE GENERAL LAFAYETTE'S VISIT MEXICAN WAR SECESSION AND CIVIL WAR Loudoun County in the Secession Movement Loudoun's Participation in the War The Loudoun Rangers (Federal) Mosby's Command in its Relationship to Loudoun County Mosby at Hamilton (Poem) Battle of Leesburg ("Ball's Bluff") Munford's Fight at Leesburg Battle at Aldie Duffie at Middleburg The Sacking of Loudoun Home Life During the War Pierpont's Pretentious Administration Emancipation Close of the War RECONSTRUCTION After the Surrender Conduct of the Freedmen CONCLUSION Introduction. I 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 cost--mental, physical, or pecuniary--the 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.