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Gen. McLaws’s furlough

The Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade’s division commander, Gen. Lafayette McLaws, had been denied a furlough back in February. But he apparently received one sometime in March. On April 2, 1863, he wrote his wife, Emily, at home in Georgia, that his … Continue reading

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