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Richmond and the Reunion vivid Confederate journey diary
A Richmond correspondent recounts a May 28 arrival and a reunion tour with veterans. Highlights include the Stuart monument unveiling, battlefield visits to Petersburg and the crater, the emotional reconnections of old comrades, the Confederate Museum in the White House, and visits to Blandford church and the Veterans Home, with stormy weather and lightning strikes adding somber color.
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Richmond
U. S
News Leader
Broad St
Capitol
Old House of Burgesses
Lord Dunmore
Virginia
J. E. B. Stuart
South
Jackson
Harnetts
Petersburg
Blandford
North Carolina
Mississippi
Alabama
Wytheville
Confederacy
Capt
Russell
John D. Cooke
White House of the Confederacy
Zebulon Baird Vance
Vance