As promised, I am posting two articles from Confederate newspapers that reported on Col. Robert Lowry’s raids on Smith and Jones County, Mississippi. Note (as in both the letters previously posted) the prominence of Unionist Ben Hawkins […]
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- 34th Massachusetts POWs and Harrisonburg Unionists July 23, 2014
- Letter from Botts, laying “bare the tyranny of Jeff. Davis”, November 21, 1863 December 11, 2013
- Hensley-Lamb (Rockingham & Page County) refugees, documented in Gettysburg newspaper August 11, 2013
- In the case of Mr. Nicholas Breeden, Rockingham County, Virginia February 19, 2012
- When a Confederate soldier came-a-courtin’ a Southern Unionist’s daughter December 2, 2011
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