Elizabeth Van Lew ran a Union spy ring in Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital. James Longstreet was a Confederate general commanding a corps of infantry in Robert E. Lee’s army. After the war Longstreet urged Southern whites to accept the defeat of the Confederacy and come to terms with the emancipation of the slaves.
Examiner and Chronicle
Thursday, Mar 25, 1869
New York, NY
Page: 5
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Hi Jocelyn, I found the newspaper on a site called geneologybank.com
The site is a digitalized collection of 15,000 different newspapers.
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