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1. Beauregard at Drewry's Bluff & Petersburg - April 12, 1893

   Johnson Hagood was born in South Carolina, educated at the South Carolina Military Academy (The Citadel), practiced law, and was a member of the state militia. He entered the Confederate service at the start of the Civil War and in 1862 was ranked as a Brigadier General. In early 1864 he was in charge of the Seventh Military District of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, commanded by Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard. When Beauregard wa...

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2. George Jefferson Hundley recollections - April 29, 1895

   George Jefferson Hundley was born near Mobile, Alabama in 1838. On his mother's side he was the great-great-grandson of Peter Field Jefferson, who was an uncle of President Thomas Jefferson. Orphaned at an early age he was reared by relatives in Amelia County, Virginia. He studied law in Lexington, Virginia, and was licensed to practice in 1860. Hundley enlisted as a private in the 19th Virginia Infantry, where he was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant....

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3. Letter from William Mahone to George S. Bernard - July 1895

   Letter written by William Mahone to George S. Bernard pertains to the Battle of the Weldon Railroad, in which Mahone's Division participated when it arrived on the scene August 19, 1864. The nine pages are extremely fragile and are crumbling. Where they were folded, the pages are now splitting apart. The letter is unsigned, but, on the reverse of page four, Bernard has made a faint notation that it was from General Mahone. The letter begins by d...

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