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Captain Sanders (Elizabeth City report)

Birth: unknownDeath: unknown28 January 1863 report of death on the 5 th.Given name and identity unestablished; his reported killing is not independently confirmed.

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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.