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Colonel DeForest

Birth: unknownDeath: unknown3 January 1864 letter.Given name unestablished in the letter.

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.