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  1. History Mystery: Painting of Woman in Black Dress (United Daughters of the Confederacy?)

    History Mystery: Painting of Woman in Black Dress (United Daughters of the Confederacy?)

    For this month’s History Mystery, we have something a little different: a painting from our portrait collection!   KHS needs your help in identifying this painting of a woman, who is wearing in a high-necked black dress, and a jeweled cross brooch.  Both the dress and cross appear to be black,...

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  2. Book Notes – Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy

    Book Notes – Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy

    Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy. By Roger Pickenpaugh.  (2013.  Pp. 320.  $49.95.  Hardcover. Lexington: University of Alabama Press.  Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0380. http://www.uapress.ua.edu/) ISBN: 978-0817317836. A follow-up to Pickenpaugh’s earlier publication, Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union (2008), this book uses soldier diaries, newspaper...

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