Project

The Valley of the Shadow Project

Division of Education Programs

Robert E. Lee portrait by Vic Arnold.
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Robert E. Lee portrait by Vic Arnold.

Courtesy of Library of Congress

See the Civil War from the perspective of two American communities-- one Northern and one Southern-- through the letters, diaries, newspapers, census, and church records left by men and women in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

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