Papers of the Blackford family [manuscript], 1965-1969.

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Papers of the Blackford family [manuscript], 1965-1969.

Collection includes a 1969 clipping from the "Lynchburg News" on the death of Charles Minor Blackford IV, and a printed political sheet condemning lawyers. Of interest is a letter, 1965, from Judge William Moscoe Huntley to James Baylor Blackford telling Blackford that Augustus C. Buell's biography of John Paul Jones is a fraud.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7920294

University of Virginia. Library

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Huntley, William Moscoe, 1902- ,

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Buell, Augustus C., 1847-1904

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Augustus Caesar Buell was born in 1847, and fought in the Civil War as a member of Company L of the 20th New York Cavalry, having enlisted in August 21, 1863. Although he was promoted to corporal the following November, by April 1864 he had been demoted back to private. He was mustered out of service at the end of July 1865 and returned to New York. Buell was living in the area of Chittenango and Utica in upstate New York, near Syracuse, when he kept his diary/sketchbook, which contains entries ...

Blackford, Charles Minor, 1945-1969.

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