A child's recollection of Baron Heros von Borcke [manuscript], 1939.

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A child's recollection of Baron Heros von Borcke [manuscript], 1939.

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Mrs. Cleneay recalls the Prussian officer's visit to her home in 1864 to recover from a wound. Von Borcke served on J. E. B. Stuart's staff with Mrs. Cleneay's uncle Chiswell Dabney.

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Stuart, Jeb, 1833-1864

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James Ewell Brown (Jeb) Stuart, soldier, was born 6 February 1833, on "Laurel Hill" plantation, Patrick County, Virginia. He died 12 May 1864 and is buried in Richmond, Virginia. Stuart graduated from the U.S. Military Academy (1850); received his commission (1854); and transferred to the Cavalry (1855). He married Flora Cooke, a colonel's daughter, in 1855, and the couple had three children. Stuart became Robert E. Lee's aide (1859) and resigned from the U.S. Army to be commissioned a lieutenan...

Cleneay, Bessie L. Taylor.

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Borcke, Heros ˜vonœ 1835-1895

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Dabney, Chiswell.

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