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A FITTING EPITAPH

hat does a good historian do when a cache of unexamined Civil War letters is handed to him? He does what John Simpson did. He writes a book. is the saga describing the intertwined lives of two Ellithorpe brothers and two of their brothers-in-law in the Civil War as told through 180 lovingly preserved

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