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Artillery Experiences at Petersburg & Elsewhere by Dr. Joseph W. Eggleston - January 3, 1895
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Biography of John T. Parham - 1896
Ensign John T. Parham was born in Prince George County, Virginia, October 26, 1843, and educated in Petersburg at the classical school of Professor William T. Davis. At the start of the war, Parham was a clerk in his father's store, the late Henry Parham, once the clerk of Prince George County, but at that time a merchant of York County, Virginia, doing business as a merchant at the half-way house between Williamsburg and Yorktown. Parham enliste...
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Booklet - April 28, 1913
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Correspondence - December 31, 1860
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Letter - August 14, 1842
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Letter from Calvin Utz to John Breckinridge, January 26, 1858 - January 26, 1858 01/25/1858 19/15/1853 /1853 08/10/1853 08/10/1835
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Letter from Emma Breckinridge to her son, John Breckinridge - October 1, 1858
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Letter from Gilmer Breckinridge to his mother, Emma Breckinridge - January 30, 1859
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Lines on the Back of a Confederate Note: Poem - 1862-1920
A poem "Lines on the Back of a Confederate Note" by Major A. S. Jonas, typed on poster board. On the left side is an illustration of entwined Confederate flags along with a Confederate States of America emblem, drawn by M. V. Wilton. Above the poem is pasted an 1862 Confederate note for 100 dollars.
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