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1. A Trooper's Reminiscences by Benjamin Boisseau Vaughn - May 27, 1894

   Object ID 2009.75.220 is a duplicate of this newspaper article. Object ID 2009.75.026 - The content of the object ID referred to is a one-page entry that is in pieces, but is part of this same newspaper article, which is the same as page 5. Page 3 and 4 are duplicates, but the second image has more of the article on the right top. The newspaper is split into smaller portions where it was folded. Vaughan was a trooper in the 1st Virginia ...

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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. Letter from William Mahone to George S. Bernard - July 1895

   Letter written by William Mahone to George S. Bernard pertains to the Battle of the Weldon Railroad, in which Mahone's Division participated when it arrived on the scene August 19, 1864. The nine pages are extremely fragile and are crumbling. Where they were folded, the pages are now splitting apart. The letter is unsigned, but, on the reverse of page four, Bernard has made a faint notation that it was from General Mahone. The letter begins by d...

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4. Newspaper Article - May 1894

   Undetermined newspaper with a date of May 1894 (May 26, 1894 date found with a Mortuary Report on the reverse). The newspaper clipping has deteriorated, with the top in pieces. The author is unknown but relates his experience at "Yellow Tavern" on 11 May 1864. Background: On the morning of 11 May, 1862, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalrymen reached the abandoned stagecoach inn "Yellow Tavern" only 6 miles from Richmond. Outnumbered, Stuart depl...

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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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