re: Trending video about Confederate Romanticism in the South

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an August 19, 1864 letter Bird sent his daughter from Camp Walker in Virginia, he wrote, "Tell Allen I think of him often, and how anxious he was to come with me. Sam sends a heap of love to them and is in good health." Sam, who accompanied Bird to Virginia, was his body servant. Allen was another of his slaves. Edgeworth called all his slaves servants. In a September 3, 1864 letter he sent his wife from Four Mile Church, Richmond, Virginia, he wrote, "Ten or fifteen of the negro soldiers in our front have come in the past few days. Two came over this morning. A negro who knows what is for his good will never let the Yanks get him".

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