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Mahone, William |
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Bernard note - 1894
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Cameron Memoranda for Biography - 1892-1896
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Closing Days of the Army of Northern Virginia by William Mahone - July 25, 1895
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Crater Legion Membership Card - November 1, 1903
Membership Card titled "Headquarters Grand Bivouac, Crater Legion" issued to Robert Frigna, Company K, 12th Virginia Regiment, of Mahone's Brigade. The member is entitled to a Medal of Honor that will be presented on the battlefield, November 6, 1903. There is a name at the bottom of the card that can not be determined. The name begins with J. M. the last name begins with an L.
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Delevan Bates Letter - July 9, 1892
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Early Days of the War. - July 1895
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Elmodam Nathaniel Poarch letter on Malvern Hill/Second Manassas - November 9, 1895
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Fight at Malvern Hill - Article written by George S. Bernard - September 23, 1897
This article, printed in the September 26, 1887 issue of the Petersburg Index Appeal, was written by George S. Bernard on September 23, 1887. The newspaper is in pieces and some lines can not be read. The article is very detailed. Many paragraphs were taken from the reports of the officers (Northern and Southern) directly involved in the battle. To help summarize the article the names of the individuals who gave a report or relate their recoll...
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Fredericksburg to the Valley of Virginia. - November 1893
George S. Bernard spoke to the R. E. Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans, in Richmond on November 3, 1893, about his experiences during the Gettysburg Campaign. His talk was published in the newspaper. Bernard used his wartime diary and notebooks as source material for the talk. After the Battle of Chancellorsville, Mahone's Brigade made camp at Salem Church, and then marched to Fredericksburg to relieve Barksdale's brigade. After a week, the reg...
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George Jefferson Hundley recollections - April 29, 1895
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James Kemp - June 24, 1894
Fort Steadman is also spelled Stedman. This newspaper clipping was written by James Campbell Kemp, who lived in Petersburg and witnessed (from a distance) the fall of Fort Steadman on March 25, 1865. Kemp was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and came to America in 1852. He was a bookkeeper for a wholesale grocer, later becoming a bookkeeper-cashier for a tobacco manufacturer. From 1888 until 1892, he was the clerk for the mayor of Petersburg. The ar...
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J.E.L. (John E. Laughton) Jr. Post Card - June 17, 1891
J.E.L., Jr., gives Bernard a series of names, what units they were attached to, and some of their actions. J.V.L. McCreery was a sergeant in the 1st Company of the Richmond Howitzers. He says that the artillery supported by Mahone's Brigade on May 2nd, 1863, was Manly's North Carolina Battery, commanded by Captain Manly (Manly was the son of an ex-governor of N.C.), the 1st Co. of the Richmond Howitzers, commanded by Capt. Ed. S. McCarthy, Lieuts...
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John E. Laughton letter of June 20, 1892 - June 20, 1892
Note from Laughton to Bernard explaining the situation of the Richmond Howitzers. The First (1st) Company of Richmond Howitzers was the battery engaged with Mahone's Brigade at Chancellorsville. The 2nd and 3rd Companies were attached to Jackson's Corps and never connected with either Anderson's Division or A. P. Hill's Corps. The companies were separated at the start of the war, and assigned to different Corps, and never re-united in the same...
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John E. Laughton talks to the George Pickett Camp - 1895
Capt. John Laughton gave a talk to the George Pickett Camp of Confederate Veterans about his experiences while attached to the Sharpshooter Battalion of Gen. William Mahone's Brigade. The talk was printed in the Richmond newspaper. The paper was folded and has damage at the fold. A small piece of newsprint is missing at the beginning of the article. While in winter quarters near Gordonsville, Virginia, in 1864, General Mahone conceived the ide...
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John Thomas Parham talks before the A. P. Hill Camp of Confederate Veterans - September 6, 1894
John Thomas Parham was born in Prince George County. At age 18, he joined the 32nd Virginia Infantry regiment, Company "C". Eventually, he was detailed as a color sergeant. In 1864 he was commissioned 1st lieutenant. He survived the war. Later in life, he became a member of the Petersburg City Council, a deputy collector of customs, Deputy Sergeant of the City of Petersburg, Virginia, and in 1896 was a newspaper editor. Background. The Marylan...
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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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