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Wiregrass to Appomattox: The Untold Story of the 50th Georgia Infantry Regiment, CSA by James W. Parrish, Angle Valley Press, 2008, $39.95 More than 1,400 men from Georgia’s Wiregrass district, which runs adjacent to the state’s border with Florida, made up the 50th Georgia Infantry. The regiment reached Virginia in the summer of 1862, and …
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