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Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901.

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Frances Lightburn Cressman, Author, "A Great Civil War Has Come Upon Us"

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4088
Overview Civil War history book titled "A Great Civil War Has Come Upon Us - The Lives and Times of Union Brig. Gen./Reverend Joseph A.J. Lightburn and His Friend, Confederate Lieut. Gen. Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson: A Two-Volume Presentation in Observance of the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War". The book contains a biography of General Joseph A.J. Lightburn; a biography of "Stonewall" Jackson; accounts of major battles and campaigns in the Civil War; and an account of the formation of...
Dates: 2015

Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn (1824-1901) Letter

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Collection Number: A&M 0034
Overview

Typescript copy of a letter written by General Lightburn, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Division, XV Army Corps, to "My dear George." There is mention of the siege of Vicksburg and the strength of the defensive positions of the town; battle losses; and a request that his letters not be published "as I am down on newspaper puffing."

Dates: 1863

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Civil War - West Virginia. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 1
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