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Sources consulted for the biography of:Harrison Holt Riddleberger (1843–1890)
Primary Sources
- Birth and death dates on gravestone, Cedarwood Cemetery, Edinburg, Virginia
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger Papers, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers (1861–1865), War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109, National Archives and Records Administration
- Shenandoah County Marriage Register, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
- Riddleberger Act in Acts and Joint Resolutions Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Virginia during the Session of 1881–82 (1882), 88–98
- Riddleberger, “Bourbonism in Virginia,” North American Review 134 (1882): 416–428
Secondary Sources
- Howson White Cole III, "Harrison Holt Riddleberger, Readjuster" (M.A. thesis, University of Virginia, 1952), noting on p.2 that the family Bible record of his birth was smudged at the time of writing, leaving Riddleberger uncertain whether he was born in 1843 or 1844
- John W. Wayland, A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia (1927), 554–556
Newspapers
- Biographical sketch in Woodstock Virginian, December 23, 1881 (with variant birth date of October 4, 1844)
- Interview with Riddleberger in the New York Herald, November 11, 1883
Obituaries
- Shenandoah Herald, January 31, 1890
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