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A Senator’s Wife Sees Her Husband Arrested for Lincoln’s Murder
Virginia Clay was there when her husband was arrested by the Union forces after the surrender of the Confederate armies in 1865. She was married…
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Dying in the Last Months of the Civil War a Confederate Former Senator Conceals His Grave from Sherman
On November 13, 1864 Senator Hammond died at the age of fifty six years old. Hammond was lionized in Secessionist circles in the South for…