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1. Biography of John C. Griffin - 1896

   Captain John C. Griffin was born February 22, 1832, in Charlotte County, Virginia, where his father, Capt. Spencer Calicote Griffin, a farmer, lived. He moved with his father to Granville County, North Carolina, where he started his education. He later was a student at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. At age 20 his grandmother, Mrs. Thomas Nelson of Nottoway County, appointed him as farmer in charge of a large farm near Burkville Junction, Vir...

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2. Captain John Griffin in Dinwiddie County - 1894

   This letter by Capt. John C. Griffin is about life in Dinwiddie County in the vicinity of the opposing armies during the last years of the war. The 37 pages are typewritten and on the first two pages are glued a brief biography of Griffin. The line stating his date and place of birth are unreadable, but the next line refers to Virginia. The family moved to North Carolina where Griffin was educated. He attended Hampden Sydney College in Virginia, ...

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