To this new revised edition is added a complete index of names in the volume, including bride, groom, bondsmen, parents, witnesses, guardians, ministers and any other person mentioned in the original document. Also an appendix of ministers is added along with the number of marriages conducted by each and an outer date range for the marriages of each minister.
Most records are quite complete and contain a wealth of genealogical information.
1862 was a pivotal year for the region of Orange, Va., with troop movements by both armies and also alarms and skirmishes. Jackson marched through Orange in August of that year on his way to the bloody battle of Cedar Mountain twelve miles north in Culpeper. Miss Fanny Hume brings these events and the people of the village to light and adds a contemporary color and flavor to these long-forgotten episodes. Barbara Vines Little. Orange County was an early parent county for many of the western counties in Virginia, including Augusta and its eighty later subdivisions.