From Collapse To Survival: A Confederate Officer’s Journey After Richmond Fell
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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Charles Minor Blackford is remembered as an officer on Gen. James Longstreet's staff and for his 1894 memoirs, with his wife, Susan, "Life in and Out of the Army in Virginia." In it, Blackford describes the last days in Richmond and the immediate, desperate times in the aftermath of the war.
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