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Roanoke Valley in the Great War: Resources for Researchers

General Virginia Sources

• Virginia Military Dead database

• Virginia World War I Commission Questionnaires

• World War I Memorials in Virginia

• Richmond Times Dispatch from Chroniciling America

Virginia Unit and Regimental Histories

• John A. Cutchins, History of the Twenty-ninth Division, "Blue and Gray," 1917-1919 (Philadelphia: MacCalla and Co. Inc, 1921)

• United States Army, History of the 318th Infantry Regiment of the 80th Division (Richmond: The William Byrd Press, 1919)

• Russel L. Stultz, History of the Eightieth Division A.E.F. in World War I: The Blue Ridge Division (Roanoke, Virginia: Jamont Communications, 2004)

• Henry F. Seal, Jr., “Ever Forward:" History of the 116th US Infantry Regiment 29th Division Organized from the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Infantry Regiments, Virginia National Guard (Adjutant General of Virginia: 1953)

Local Histories

• Works Progress Administration in the State of Virginia, Roanoke: Story of County and City (Roanoke, Virginia: Stone Printing Co., 1942)

• Clare White, Roanoke, 1740-1982 (Roanoke, Virginia: Hickory Printing, 1982)

• Deddie Kagey, When Past is Prologue: A History of Roanoke County (Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Press, Inc., 1988)

• Norwood C. Middleton, Salem: A Virginia Chronicle (Salem, Virginia: Salem Historical Society, 1986)

• John S. and Emily J. Salmon, Franklin County Virginia, 1786-1986: A Bicentennial History (Rocky Mount, Virginia: Franklin County Bicentennial Commission, 1993)

• Marshall Wingfield, Franklin County, Virginia: A History (Berryville, Virginia: Chesapeake Book Company, 1964)

• Amos D. Wood, Floyd County: A History of its People and Places (Radford, Virginia: Commonwealth Press, Inc., 1981)