This volume is largely a source book of genealogical and historical materials, compiled from the public records of Rockingham, Augusta, Greenbrier, Wythe, Montgomery and other counties of Virginia, with valuable contributions from various other parts of the United States.

This book is considered to contain supplementary and additional materials to those contained in the author's History of Rockingham County, Virginia, published in 1912 by the Puebush-Elkins Company, Dayton, Virginia.

Explores the moral dilemmas faced by various religious sects and how these groups struggled to come to terms with the effects of wartime Americanization-- without sacrificing their religious beliefs and values.