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1. 06/02/1863 9/22/1859

   Letter headed Gains Cross Roads, Jun 12, 1863 from Gilmer Breckinridge to his wife Julia giving details of a recent "fight" his Brigade was involved in with three men slightly wounded, but his unit was not in the hottest part of the battle. He has seen large bodies of infantrymen walking toward Front Royal [Virginia],"some great move is on foot" [early indications of the Confederate invasion on Pennsylvania]. He tells of recovering Yankee saddleb...

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2. 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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