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1. Booklet - May 1963

   A booklet titled "The Norfolk and Western and The Confederacy, Predecessors Of The N&W Rails In The Civil War," written by Ben Dulaney in May 1963.

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2. Booklet - May 1963

   Booklet titled "The Norfolk and Western and The Confederacy" written by Ben Dulaney in May 1963.

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3. 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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4. Closing Days of the Army of Northern Virginia by William Mahone - July 25, 1895

   Bernard has cut and pasted the first two pages of Mahone's transcribed letter, and has inserted a biography of Mahone, along with a third page (inserted by Bernard) to finish the biography. The letter then continues for 29 pages, where at the bottom of the page an addendum is inserted. The last two pages are by Bernard. Mahone was born in Southhampton County on December 1, 1826; he was educated at VMI, graduating in 1847. He taught school for ...

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5. Cockade City's Surrender by J. P. Williamson - June 17, 1894

   The first four pages are newspaper strips that have been glued to scrap paper. The paper is from Bernard's old legal cases; the typing on the reverse is visible through the paper. At the bottom of the first page is a biography, written by Bernard, of Mr. Williamson. Inserted between the cut newspaper articles are photo images that are referred to within the text. Following the first four pages are four pages, titled "Addendum", that pertain to an...

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6. James P. Jackson and Bradford's Battery - June 13, 1895

   The paper is very brittle, tears easily, and page 5 is missing. James P. Jackson was born in Petersburg, Virginia the 27th of July, 1848 and was educated there. Too young to enlist when the War first started, he waited until the winter of 1864-1865, when he joined Captain W. D. Bradford's battery. After the close of the war, Jackson was a clerk in the office of his father, who was treasurer of the South Side railroad. In 1876 he and his father...

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7. Map of Petersburg Entrenched Lines - 1864

   Printed sketch map of the Petersburg entrenched lines and environs. Surveyed under the direction of Colonel Nathaniel Michler.

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8. 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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