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Pickett (military report)

Birth: unknownDeath: unknown16 May 1864 rumor.Reported killed in a wartime rumor; this does not establish his death.

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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.