Kamis, 27 Juli 2017

Past and Present- CWT December 2012

It’s great-great-grandfather! A widely publicized portrait of an unnamed Confederate has at last been identified, thanks to the Liljenquist collection of Civil War portraits displayed on the Library of Congress website. Tricia Mullinax, of Villa Rica, Georgia, recognized her maternal great-great-grandfather, Stephen Pollard, who served in the 7th Regiment, Confederate Cavalry (Claiborne’s Partisan Rangers). The …

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