2602. Launcelot Minor Blackford, 1894–

Blackford, an Atlanta, Georgia, doctor, is a descendant of Mary Blackford. His life of her, while depicting a woman of character who was far from the clinging vine of historical romances, shows some of the way of life in Virginia and a sample of the anti-slavery sentiment that existed in the South during the Civil War and pre-Civil War period.

2603. Mine eyes have seen the glory; the story of a Virginia lady, Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford, 1802–1896, who taught her sons to hate slavery and to love the Union. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1954. 293 p. 54–5018 F230.B65B6