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1. Flowers for Dead Heroes by Rev. William H. Platt - June 10, 1894

   The twenty-eighth observance of Memorial Day is the basis of this newspaper article. The paper is badly damaged and split at the folds where it was folded and stored. The first part of the article pertains to the ceremony itself and is followed by the oration of the Reverend Platt. Petersburg was attacked thirty years ago by the Union cavalry of General Kautz, held at bay by 125 citizen soldiers under the command of Colonel Archer until reinfo...

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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. Newspaper article on Elliott's Brigade at the Crater - March 5, 1899

   This newspaper article takes up two full pages with the first part on the front page, continuing on the reverse. The paper is deteriorating, which has resulted in some empty spaces. Four images make up the front page and four images the reverse. The first two images are advertisements and have no connection to the story. The story of Elliott's Brigade begins at the bottom half of the front page and continues on the whole of the reverse side. The ...

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4. Recollections of Walter N. Jones - 1894

   The 14 typed pages comprise the address delivered to the A. P. Hill Camp of Confederate Veterans of Petersburg, on April 5, 1894, by Walter N. Jones, who claimed to be the youngest Confederate to surrender at Appomattox Court House, There is a page 3 1/2 inserted. On the reverse of the last page is a handwritten note by Jones and a written notation by George S. Bernard. Jones, in 1864, was a 13 year-old boy who lived in Dinwiddie County, Virginia...

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5. Table of Contents - 1895

   These pages appear to be George Bernard's various attempts to create a rough draft of the table of contents for the second volume of War Talks of Confederate Veterans. Typed and handwritten pages, front and back, with cross-outs and other revisions, appear first, followed by a later draft typed on the front only.

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6. "War Talks" - Prospectus of Volume ll - May 26, 1896

   George S. Bernard distributed this flyer to subscribers. He informs the reader that Volume II is ready to go to press, just as soon as he has enough subscribers who will forward $1.50 for the book. The book will be similar to his first volume; it will have 400 pages and contain 27 chapters with portraits, illustrations, and photographs. He lists individuals who have contributed war- time accounts, both civilian and military. This book, like the f...

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