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288. DAVIS FAMILY PAPERS
3 items, 1839-65
Memoirs of W. F. Davis of Charlottesville and a diary kept by his father,
J. H. Davis, during the Civil War. J. H. Davis noted a local
force organized in Charlottesville at the beginning of the war to
control the black population. The diary notes that a family slave, Thornton, traveled with W. F.
Davis during the war and on May 15,
1864, returned home to report that he had been captured.
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