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38488
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This is a narrative of how Martha Walker Trent and her family survived the Civil War and later bought the McLean House, at Appomattox Court House. The first battle of the Civil War and the final surrender took place on this land. She sold the McLean House, to a Northern man, who took it down to move, but never did.
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36145
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His memories lasted for the war’s duration, from his enlistment at 17 to release from service in July 1865. His military service included the Battle of New Bern (1862); encampment at Goldsboro; imprisonments at Fort Delaware and Point Lookout. Alluded was how religion and humor helped to soften the otherwise hard experience of combat. Harshness not hinted were the economic fallout of Reconstruction for the South and life on his family’s plantation.