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Excerpt from During the War and After the War
The Object of this compilation is to inform my grand children that I, their grand-father, in obedience to an imperitive sense of duty, was engaged throughout its continuance in the albitrament of arms/between the two sections of the Union serving, as best I could, in the army of Northern Virginia, in turn commanded by (fren erals Beauregard Joseph Eggleston Johnston, and final ly the illustrious Robert Edward Lee; also that, as one of the Commonwealth's Attorneys, I was an actor in Vir ginia's memorable encounter in the Federal Courts with her British Creditor - the Coupon Controversy - an event that deserves a place in the memory of every Vir ginian. Its a memento of our Gomrabsbtp I have the the honour to ad dress the Brochure to the glorious Black Horse. In association with whom, before the war, as their First Captain, I learned to handle cavalry. It was prior to the time at which I Offered my sword to President Davis at Montgomery, when the Southern Confederacy was but a germ.
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