July 4, 1863

Item sets: The Sphex Club Papers; Jones Memorial Library Manuscripts Collection

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Identifier: JML.MS1133-0188
Barcode: JML.MS1133-0188
Title: July 4, 1863
Description: Text of a lecture delivered to the Sphex Club in Lynchburg. Using eyewitness accounts and commentaties of historians, supplemented by historic and contemporaty photographs, the paper explores the impact and the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg on the village and surrounding Adams County. A subsidiary theme is the experience of Private James Maurice Moore, a member of the Lynchburg Home Guard who was wounded and captured in the battle.
Date: 3 January 2012
Creator: Payne, L. Kimball III
topic: SPHEX Club - lectures; Payne, L. Kimball III; Civil War; Moore, James Maurice; Lynchburg Home Guard; 11th Virginia Infantry Regiment; Union Second Corps Hospital; Ladies Memorial Association (Lynchburg, Va.); Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Va.)
Location: Lynchburg, Va.
Digital Format: pdf
Language: English
Publisher: George M. Jones Library Association
Repository: George M. Jones Library Association
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/; George M. Jones Library Association
Rights Holder: Payne, L. Kimball III; George M. Jones Library Association