Reading List

Southside Virginia in the Civil War. Anthony J. Gage, Jr. The Virginia Regimental Histories Series; 1999, H. E. Howard, Inc., Appomattox, VA. ISBN-1-56190-103-2.
Dixie After the War, An Exposition of Social Conditions Existing in the South, During the Twelve Years Succeeding the Fall of Richmond. Myrta Lockett Avary.
A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865: Being a Record of the Actual Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate Officer: Electronic Edition. Ed. by Myrta Lockett Avary.
Saunier, Paul, Jr. "87-Year-Old Tombstone Maker Mixes Own: Finds Market for Homemade Markers Good." Richmond Times-Dispatch. September 13, 1946.
Charlie Tyson. "Now 95, Saunier Reflects on Efforts to Expand U.Va.'s Black Enrollment." UVA Today. July 7, 2014. Web Link
Jamieson, Ross W. "Material Culture and Social Death: African‐American Burial Practices." Historical Archaeology 1995 29(4): 39-58.
Reyes, Angelita. "The Slave's Cabin: From the Back of the Big House to the National Register of Historic Places" in Visualizing Slavery in Contemporary American Popular Culture. Marlene Alan, Ed. McFarland Pubs. 2012. 22 pp.
______. "Writing Among the Dead: The Craft of "PRS" (1854-1950), an African American Tombstone Maker in Virginia." Research paper. Virginia Forum 2013. Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia. March 2013.