A gentleman and an officer
Cavalry operations
Confederate states of america, biography
United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, personal narratives, confederate
Confederate Personal narratives
Confederate States of America. Army
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Confederate States of America
United States Civil War, 1861-1865
Armed Forces
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Biography
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In 1861, James B. Griffin left Edgefield, South Carolina and rode off to Virginia to take up duty with the Confederate Army in a style that befitted a Southern gentleman: on a fine-blooded horse, with two slaves to wait on him, two trunks, and his favorite hunting dog. He was thirty-five years old, …
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