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Eye of the Storm: The Civil War Drawings of Robert Knox Sneden
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Through his 5,000-page personal memoir, Robert Knox Sneden takes us to the front lines of the Civil War.
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Slavery
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Virginia’s 550,000 slaves constituted one third of the state’s population in 1860.