A Yankee Horseman in the Shenandoah Valley: The Civil War Letters of John H. Black, Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The editors wish to acknowledge the Jefferson County Historical Association for permission to reprint the letters of John H. Black of the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry, which were published previously by that organization. We are especially appreciative to John E. Stealey III of Shepherd University for his willingness to initially publish a portion of these letters in article form. We also would like to thank those who made available a photograph of John H. Black. Thanks is also due to an unidentified reviewer of this manuscript for bringing to our attention a letter by John Black in the possession of the Virginia Tech Library. Tim Orr of Old Dominion University also carefully read the manuscript and made invaluable suggestions that significantly strengthened the book. We are grateful for his attention to detail as well as his insights, which enabled us to see in Black’s letters a significance that lay beyond the battlefield. Janet Perkins of Richmond, Virginia, assisted greatly in providing genealogical information on a number of the individuals mentioned in the letters. John Jackson and Aaron Purcell of Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, assisted us in obtaining permission to use a John Black letter from their collection. Scot Danforth has been a great supporter of this work from its inception, and for many years waited patiently for its editors to finally bring closure to the manuscript. ...