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but from within her borders came many of the bravest men who followed the fortunes of the South.
Her best blood stood in the forefront of most of the battles of the Army of Northern Virginia.
In numbers she may not have furnished her quota, but in heroism and self-denial they were peerless among the troops that followed the colors of the South.
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Table of Contents:
Memoir of
Jane
Claudia
Johnson
.
A paper read by
Charles
M.
Blackford
, of the
Lynchburg Bar
, before the
Tenth
annual meeting of the
Virginia State Bar Association
, held at old
Point Comfort, Va.
,
July
17
-
19
,
1900
.
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