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Box W0083.01

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manuscript

 Item — Box: W0083.01
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This unbound, sixty-eight page manuscript of Robert Duncan Chapman's Civil War memoir, A Georgia Soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865, describes his war experiences from his enlistment in August 1861 until 1865 as a member of the Fifty-fifth Georgia Infantry. Chapman describes his capture at the Battle of Cumberland Gap and his subsequent imprisonment at Johnson's Island, Ohio. Chapman was a prisoner at Johnson's Island for five months when he...
Dates: 1929