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Manuscript Collection 1375

Ledger book contains material copied ca 1920 from various Confederate sources pertaining to Civil War events in and around Camden, Arkansas, including obituaries, biographical sketches, speeches, cemetery lists, and social notes. Some entries describe battles at Jenkins Ferry, Prairie Grove, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, Vicksburg. Loose leaves and fragments are laid in. Gift of Mrs. Martha Bragg Crowder, September 1996.

Some passages are "copied from Mrs. J. N. Bragg's Scrap Book," from the "Bugle Call," and from correspondence of members of the Bragg family, especially Dr. Junius Newport Bragg, surgeon in the 33d Arkansas Regiment, CSA.
 

RESTRICTIONS APPLY.  Original is fragile. Use photocopy filed with original.