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The Sure 'Nuff Truth About the Civil War
A memoir fragment recounts enslaved people aiding a farm on Sand Mountain and staying after emancipation. It notes a family move to Texas in 1891, a dogtrot mansion, and lingering hard soil plus malaria. The author recalls grandfathers fighting on opposite sides at Shiloh and Donelson, concluding truth can be stranger than fiction.
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Texas
Wellesley Caperton
Panhandle
DeKalb County
Alabama
Sand Mountain
Tennessee
Capertons
TVA
Shiloh
Donelson
Fort Henry