Piedmont, the Maury home [manuscript], n.d.

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Piedmont, the Maury home [manuscript], n.d.

Recollections, n.d., of Jane Maury Maverick, regarding the early days of the University of Virginia; Piedmont, the Maury family home in Virginia; the University and Albemarle County, Va., during the Civil War; racial relations after Emancipation; and stories told her by her father, Jesse Lewis Maury, regarding Hessian soldiers, Thomas Jefferson, Reuben Maury, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Meriwether Lewis.

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