South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-01-04
e ounty-, West, Va, January 4, 1881,
-Four Years III the SEuGGWail
Brigade.
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Four Years III the SEuGGWail
Brigade.
by JOHN Q. CASLEE.
Private Co. A. sd =. lhfan.ry, StoncwAil
! Brigade, ls Iiigisfv-: Il. Cory5, Army Of
Northern Virginia
PHE1ACE
II introducinglnj self 10 tie public.
] T want it Gistln3tN understood. that
every word oEth;s History is true. As
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in aIl that I here record, except soile
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