W.H. Adams reminiscences, 1861-1865 [microform].

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W.H. Adams reminiscences, 1861-1865 [microform].

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The collection consists of a microfilm copy of two manuscript volumes of reminiscences of W.H. Adams from 1861-1865, each volume containing approximately 50 written pages. The reminiscences are in verse, each group of stanzas bearing as a title the name of a place, a river, or a battle, beginning with his home community in Loudoun Valley, "Waunkopin Valley", then running from "First Manassas" through "Appomattox" and ending with "Homeward Bound" and "Waunkopin Valley" again.

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Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Adams, W. H.

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W.H. Adams was a private in the Confederate States of America Army, Virginia Infantry Regiment, 8th, Company D during the Civil War and participated in battles from First Manassas through Appomattox. He lived in or near the Waunkopin Valley in Loudoun County, Virginia. He joined the Champe Rifles (recruited from Middleburg and Aldie) and went with that outfit to Leesburg to become part of the 8th Regiment. There they went into camp and drilled, each of the companies numbering about eighty men, b...