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Edward Buncombe

1742–1778 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Colonel Edward Buncombe, Fifth North Carolina Continental Regiment : his life, military career, and death while a wounded prisoner in Philadelphia during the War of the Revolution : address delivered before the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati at its meeting held in Hillsborough, July 4, 1901

Haywood, Marshall De Lancey, 1871-1933 · 1901 · Raleigh [N.C.] : Published by the Society

Marshall De Lancey Haywood's address on Colonel Edward Buncombe of the Fifth North Carolina Continental Regiment, given to the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati at Hillsborough on 4 July 1901 and published by the Society in Raleigh that year. It covers Buncombe's life, his army career and his death as a wounded prisoner in Philadelphia during the Revolution.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Buncombe, Edward, 1742-1778.

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