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Benjamin Franklin Butler

Birth: unknownDeath: unknownDelegation described in 3 January 1864 letter.Full name identified in the VMI editorial notes.

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AI-generated illustration of handwritten letters, a dip pen and an inkwell beside a window overlooking a coastal creek.

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Letters from Indian Ridge: A Currituck Father Writes to His Son

From Indian Ridge, Joseph B. Morgan sent his son news of raids, illness, harvests and home. Read five complete letters from 1863–1864, reproduced with permission of the VMI Archives.

Historic waterfront photograph captioned Saw Mill at Indiantown Creek in the original article

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Dr. Gideon Marchant

The physician of Indiantown Creek, his family, and the stories that survived the war.