The Jack Ackerly Civil War Library
Located on the top floor of the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation headquarters at 9386 S. Congress Street in New Market, The Jack Ackerly Civil War Library includes:
Over 5,000 volumes of books specializing in Shenandoah Valley and Virginia Civil War history
More than 6,000 periodicals from the 1860s to the present with current journals such as the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society and Shenandoah University’s Journal of the Shenandoah Valley During the Civil War
A specialized Shenandoah Valley Research Room
Searchable online databases (available below)
Hours
Open Monday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
*Other times may be available for individual researchers on a case-by-case basis. Please feel free to reach out to us should you need services.
Contact Us
Call: 540-740-4545
Email: cwlibrary@svbf.net
Volunteering for the Library
Assist the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Jack Ackerly Library by inventorying, accessioning, and cataloguing the rapidly growing library of books and magazines all pertaining to to the American Civil War. One can also assist by transcribing, researching, documenting, cataloguing, and photographing the thousands of letters, documents, photographs, and physical objects in the Foundation’s collection. To volunteer, email us at cwlibrary@svbf.net.
Search Our Library
You can search for library items by keyword using the search box below. Click on the “plus” icon left of each row to reveal more information about that item. Click on the column headers to filter by data type. For example: Clicking on “Author Last Name” will organize by last name A-Z, clicking again will organize Z-A.
The first database below is dedicated to library books, further down you will see a second database dedicated to articles related to the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley.