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196. BARNES FAMILY PAPERS

76 items, 1775-1873
Correspondence and business papers relating to this Lynchburg family, consisting mainly of letters from Charles F. Barnes and Edward Barnes, Confederate soldiers, to their mother, Mrs. R. A. Barnes. Two letters from Charles Barnes describe a race riot in west Florida in 1865. A 1775-79 account book of Richard Dabney, Jr., from the Richmond area includes entries for births and deaths of slaves.
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