Incidents in the life of a Civil War child [manuscript] / by Anne A. Banister : her story of the last days of Petersburg, Va, 864-1865, ante 1941.

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Incidents in the life of a Civil War child [manuscript] / by Anne A. Banister : her story of the last days of Petersburg, Va, 864-1865, ante 1941.

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Recollections of Mrs. Pryor describe the death of her father fighting Kautz's raiders; roles played by slaves in defense of the city demonstrating that they loved their masters "more than freedom"; the deaths of two brothers; a visits from Robert E. Lee who took part of a meal to Colonel Marshall; boarding a Yankee commissary and doctor; a photograph from Lee later stolen; the marriage of her cousin to "Rooney" Lee;

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Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891

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William "Rooney" Henry Fizhugh Lee (1837-1891) was a farmer, politician, soldier, and General in the Army of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Lee was the second son of the famous Civil War General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Randolph Custis. ...

Pryor, Anne Augusta Banister.

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Kautz, August Valentine, 1828-1895.

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Banister, Anne A.

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Marshall, Charles, 1830-1902

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