From the attics and shoeboxes of Virginia, a trove of historical gold – Washington Post


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From the attics and shoeboxes of Virginia, a trove of historical gold
Washington Post
The opening line still hurts across the years. “Dear Mother — I am here a prisoner of war & mortally wounded.” John Winn Moseley was writing home from the Gettysburg battlefield on July 4, 1863. He was a 30-year-old Confederate from Alabama being

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