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William Douglas Hamilton

1832– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By William Douglas Hamilton

In at the death, or, The last shot at the Confederacy

Hamilton, William Douglas, 1832- · 1908 · R. Clark

A Union officer's recollection of the end of the war, detached from volume six of Sketches of War History and printed at Cincinnati in 1908. William Douglas Hamilton, born 1832, writes on the final campaign in North Carolina, and part of the account concerns Chapel Hill. Nine pages, filed with Civil War personal narratives and primary sources.

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