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David D. Smith, named above, was born in this State in 1822. He married Miss Rachael Studstill, and by her had
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four children, viz .: John H. Smith, Sallie, who married John M. Hodges; Lawrence Smith (dead), and Manning Smith (dead). He lived for many years prior to his death where Mr. G. S. Darley now lives, near Homerville. He died about 1886.
Elbert M. T. Smith, son of Lawrence Smith, was born in Ware County in 1833. He first married a Miss Floyd, later Miss Eunice, and later Edna, daughter of James M. Burk- halter. He lived for many years a few miles south of Homer- ville, but eventually removed to Lowndes County, where he died in 1901 at Hahira. He had ten children.
Sarah Smith, named above, married Hiram Kight, and was born in South Carolina, April 14th, 1812. She married Mr. Kight in Ware County, and to them was born five chil- dren, viz .: James M., Peggie, who married Sherod Smith; John Kight, Mary and Cuyler Kight. Mrs. Kight died about 1875. For many years they lived near Homerville on the Crum place.
Nancy, daughter of Lawrence Smith, who married Elias Williams, was born about 1830, in Ware County. Elias Wil- liams was commissioned a justice of the peace of the 970th district, May IIth, 1852. He was killed about 1865. Mrs. Williams survived him many years.
Another branch of the Smith family in Clinch County is that of the descendants of William Smith, who settled on Red Bluff creek in 1822. He brought with him a big stock of cattle and began farming. He was born about 1765, and his first wife was a Miss Platt. Their children were : William S. Smith, who lived in Liberty County ; Martha, who married Henry Dias; Elinor, who married James Jones ; Nancy, who married John Williams, Sr., and John Smith, who married Cassie Sirmans. After his first wife's death, Mr. Smith mar- ried Miss Neter Stephens, and by this marriage were born : Manning, Jesse, James M., Rebecca, who married Joseph Sirmans; Pollie, who married Newsom Corbitt; Elizabeth,
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who married Rowan Pafford, Naomi, who married Thad- deus Sears, and Fannie, who married Martin Corbitt, Sr.
William Smith was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and a minister of that faith. He was elected justice of the peace of the 586th district in 1830 and in 1833. He died about 1845 and was buried at Arabia Church, which he helped to establish.
Nancy, who married John Williams, Sr., was born in 1798, and among their children were John Williams, who married a daughter of John L. Morgan, Jackson S. Williams, Elias Williams and Hezekiah P. Williams.
John Smith, son of William Smith, was born December 22d, 1802. He married Cassie, daughter of Hon. Benja- min Sirmans, and by her had eleven children: Martha, who married J. W. Swain; William S., Lavinia, who married James Lee, Rachael, who married John C. Sirmans; John W. Smith, Sirmans S. Smith, Charlton H. Smith, Nancy, who married S. G. Saunders ; General J. Smith, Herschel B. Smith, and David J. Smith. John Smith lived in the Mud Creek district and died June 8th, 1867. He is buried at Arabia Church.
Jesse Smith, another son of William Smith, was born August 25th, 1820, on Red Bluff creek. He was in the Indian war of 1836-38, and soon afterwards married Miss Nancy Tomlinson, daughter of Moses Tomlinson, Sr., by whom he had five children: Sherod Smith, Cicero, John L., Fannie C., who married Henry C. Moore, first, later John C. Jones, Matilda Smith, and Nancy, who married J. S. Mattox. Mr. Smith served as representative and as sheriff of Clinch County. He died in 1880, and is buried at the old Red Bluff Church in Clinch County.
James Madison Smith, another son of William Smith, was born about 1830, in what is now Clinch County. He lived here all his life. He lived to be about 60 years of age.
Rebecca, daughter of William Smith, married Hon. Joseph Sirmans, and was born in November, 1811, and died Decem-
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ber 20th, 1852. They had six children. She is buried at the Fender graveyard.
Manning Smith was another son of William Smith, and was born about 1815. He was commissioned a justice of the Inferior Court of Ware County in 1845, and held the same position in Clinch. He married Miss Elizabeth Tomlinson, daughter of Moses Tomlinson, Sr., and had several children, among whom were Moses, Lewis, Elijah, Neter and Sarah Smith.
Another branch of the Smiths in Clinch County was that of Abraham E. Smith, and his brothers, Kit, Jackson and John Smith. They came from Barnwell district, S. C., and settled in then Ware County, about 1845. Abraham E. Smith was born November 30th, 1824. In 1848 he pur- chased two lots of land near where Homerville now is (lots 499 and 513, in the seventh district), of Thomas Hilliard. He lived on them for many years. He married and had sev- eral children. He died January 4th, 1899.
Kit Smith was born in 1812 and died in 1874. His wife, Nancy, was born in 1814. Jackson Smith was born January 27th, 1814, and died about 1875. John W. Smith was born in 1834, and his wife, Rebecca, in 1841. He died September 3d, 1867, and his wife in 1899.
John J. Smith was a son of Abraham E. Smith, and the oldest son. He was born November 10th, 1846, and mar- ried Mary, daughter of Dixon Bennett, in 1863. They had a large family of children. Mr. Smith joined Co. "H" 4th Georgia Reserves under Captain Peeples, in 1863, and served until 1865, when he was mustered out at Wilmington, N. C.
There are other small families of Smiths who have lived in this county. William D. Smith was born in North Caro- lina in 1821, and his wife, Ann R. Smith, in 1834.
Peter Smith, as stated above, married Katie, daughter of Lawrence Smith, Sr. Mr. Smith was born in 1817, in North Carolina and settled here about 1840. He died August 8th, 1887, and is buried on his old home place.
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THE CORBITT FAMILY ..
Isham Corbitt was the ancestor of that branch of the Cor- bitts who now live in the northern part of Clinch County. He was a native of Tennessee, and came with his family to this section about 1840. His wife was Millie Stokes and their children were: Harbird, Marshal, Newsom, Martin, Wil- liam, Wealthy, Sealie and Hillman Corbitt, the last named dying in his youth. Isham Corbitt died about 1855, and is buried in Berrien County.
Harbird Corbitt was born in Tennessee, January 2d, 1802, and married Reinie, daughter of Benj. I. Boyett. Their chil- dren were: Reubin, Daniel, Irwin, Harbird, Warren, Reinie, Elizabeth, Newsom and James. Harbird Corbitt, Sr., died about 1865.
Marshal Corbitt was born in Tennessee about 1805, and married a Miss Guthrie. Their only child was Diana, who married John Newbern, of Coffee County. After his first wife died, Mr. Corbitt married Martha Curry and had three children, Angeline, Isaac and Charles Corbitt.
Newsom Corbitt was born in Tennessee in 1808, and mar- ried Pollie Smith. Their children were: William, Fannie, Wealthy, Martin S., Manning, Madison, Neter, Rebecca, Mary, Elizabeth, and John Corbitt. Newsom Corbitt Sr., later married Jane Lewis, but had no children by her. Mr. Corbitt served one term as State senator from Clinch County, 1868-9, and was several years a justice of the peace.
Martin Corbitt was born in Tennessee in 1810, and mar- ried Lydia Curry, a daughter of Isaac Curry. Their chil- dren were: William, M. L. ("Jewel"), Queen, Newsom, Elias, Lewis, Millie and Elizabeth Corbitt. Mr. Corbitt was first married to Fannie Smith, but she died leaving no children.
William Corbitt was born in Tennessee in 1818 and mar- ried Rhoda Griffis, a sister of Juniper Griffis. Their children were: Catherine, Martha, Polly, Sealy, Nancy, Jasper, Ma-
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riah, Eliza Ann, Reina Ann, and Charles Corbitt. Later he married the widow of Manning Cowart, Sr., but had no other children.
There is another family of Corbitts in Clinch County that is very distantly related to the above. They are the descend- ants of Daniel Corbitt, who was born in South Carolina in 1804. He came to this section about 1845, and married Polly Bennett, and their children were: Richard, Henry, John, David, Matilda, who married David Geiger; Fannie, who married Joseph Crews ; Nancy, who married T. L. Boyd, and Mary, who never married, and Junior Corbitt, who was killed in the Civil War.
Richard Corbitt was born in 1835, and married Nancy Geiger. He died February 17th, 1903, and is buried at Providence or Camp Branch Church. A son, Randall Cor- bitt, served as treasurer of Clinch County, 1913-1915.
THE MATHIS FAMILY.
Hillery P. Mathis was brought to this section by his uncle, James Edmondson, as an orphan and was raised in Lowndes County. Later he settled in Clinch County and par- ticipated in the Indian wars. He was born in 1821 and mar- ried Martha, daughter of Samuel Register. To them were born eleven children: Wealthy, who married Moses Tom- linson ; James A. Mathis, Bryant G. Mathis, John S. Mathis, Virginia, who married J. E. Jackson; Hillery C. Mathis, Daniel W. Mathis, and four others who died in infancy. Mr. Mathis was born in Bulloch County and died about 1895.
Another branch of the Mathis family that moved to this section in pioneer days, was that of John, Edmund and James Mathis, brothers, who moved first to Bulloch County from North Carolina. After living in Bulloch some years they came on to this section, John and James settling in what is now Berrien County, where their descendants now live, and Edmund Mathis settled on the edge of the territory of Flor- ida, later removing to what is now Clinch County.
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Edmund Mathis married Unity, daughter of Samuel Reg- ister, and by her had three sons, viz .: Tyre, Bunn and John Mathis, Jr. Mr. Mathis was one of the first members of Cow Creek Church when it was first organized in 1847, as was also his wife. When Prospect Church was constituted, in 1859, he became one of the original members of that church also, moving his membership there.
John Mathis, Jr., married Jemima, daughter of Joshua Lee, and by her had several children, among them being Ezekiel Mathis. The elder Mathis served Clinch County as coroner several years. He died about 1865, and is buried at Prospect Church in Hamilton County, Fla. He was born in Bulloch County.
Tyre Mathis married Nancy, daughter of Joshua Lee. He was a justice of the Inferior Court of Clinch County, 1853- 1854, and is buried at Prospect Church in Clinch County. He was born in 1806 and died January 8th, 1891.
Another branch of the Mathis family was Thomas Mathis, who married Eady, daughter of Samuel Register. He was born in 1808. Mrs. Mathis died February 10th, 1869. Among their children was David G. Mathis. After his first wife's death, Mr. Mathis married Roxie Morgan, widow of Elihu Morgan.
THE TOMLINSON FAMILY.
Perhaps one of the oldest and most important families of Clinch County to-day is the Tomlinson family. The first Tomlinson to come here came in 1822, at the same time the Sirmans family came. They came from Bulloch County.
In Bulloch County resided John Tomlinson, who was prob- ably a soldier of the Revolution. His wife was Miss Lucretia Hardeman, a daughter of Thomas Hardeman, of Virginia. There was born to them the three sons who later settled in what is now Clinch County, in 1822.
In this connection it might be said that Thomas Harde- man had seven daughters, all of whom married into promi-
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nent families. One of them married Jack Jones, and they had a son, Jack Jones, Jr., who married Mary, a daughter of Gen. David Johnson. To the latter were born two sons, Harrison and Mitchell Jones, who both became identified with Clinch County. Another daughter of Thomas Harde- man was Winnie, who married John Moore. To them was born John, Elias and Vinson Moore. Another daughter, Artie, married Josiah Sirmans, who was born in 1767, and to them was born those Sirmans brothers, who in later years became leaders in this county.
Moses, William and John Tomlinson, Jr., were sons of John and Lucretia (Hardeman) Tomlinson, and emgirated to this section in 1822. They settled in the Mud Creek dis- trict, and it is their descendants who to-day form the Tom- linson family in Clinch County.
Moses Tomlinson was born in 1793 and married Char- lotte or Lottie Monk, a sister of Malachi Monk. She was born in 1797 in South Carolina. To them were born : Lucre- tia, who married Jonas Driggers; Aaron, who married Lavinia Sirmans; Elizabeth, who married Manning Smith; Nancy, who married Jesse Smith; Martha, who married Martin Fender; Thomas, who married Mary Sirmans; Re- becca, who married Henry Joyce; Sherod, who married Sarah Ann Burkhalter, and Enoch, who married Jemima Gid- dens, and two other sons, Needham and Joseph, who never married and were killed in the Civil War.
William Tomlinson was born in 1781, and married Nancy Register, a sister of Samuel Register, Sr. To them were born : Harris, who married Rebecca Driggers; John, who married Zilpha Register; Candacy, who married John T. Roberts; Rebecca, who married James Harvey Mizell; Marcus and Levin Tomlinson. Also there was another son of William Tomlinson, named William S. Tomlinson, who served three terms as representative from Clinch County. The latter mar- ried Matilda Giddens. William Tomlinson, Sr., died in
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1866. His wife, Nancy, was born in 1782, and died about 1873. They are the grandparents of Hon. Moses Tomlin- son, ex-ordinary of Clinch County.
John Tomlinson, Jr., brother of Moses and William Tom- linson, was born December 11th, 1784, and died February 17th, 1858. He never married and was crippled and could never walk; he amassed a considerable amount of property, such as cattle, slaves and land, besides much cash money. He spent his life among his relatives chiefly, and was carried from place to place by his slaves. He is buried at Prospect Church in this county.
Grand-children of John and Lucretia (Hardeman) Tom- linson :
Aaron Tomlinson, son of Moses Tomlinson, Sr., was born in 1818, and married Melvina, daughter of Tiner Corbitt, and to them were born Sallie, who married Jesse Lee; Nancy, who married Leonard Fender; Viola, Josiah, Moses, Eliza- beth, who married George Kinard, and later Daniel Brady; Lucretia, who married John Watson ; and Candacy, who mar- ried Cornelius Dawson; and Melvina, Charlotte, Rachael and Lorena Tomlinson. Mr. Tomlinson died about 1875.
Eliazbeth Tomlinson, daughter of Moses Tomlinson, Sr., married Manning Smith, and Nancy married Jesse Smith. (See Smiths.)
Martha Tomlinson, daughter of Moses Tomlinson, Sr., married Martin Fender, and to them were born Leonard, Bartlett, Rebecca, Sarah An, and Samantha Fender. She died about 1865.
Thomas Tomlinson, son of Moses Tomlinson, Sr., married Mary, daughter of Hon. Joseph Sirmans. Their children were Rebecca, who married George Pierce ; Harris, who mar- ried Melvina Kinard; Charlotte, who married Lucius Her- ren ;' Aaron, Jr., who married a daughter of William Bennett, and Needham who likewise married a daughter of William Bennett and Mary Tomlinson. Thomas Tomlinson was born
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June 26th, 1828, and died August 14th, 1897, and is buried at the Fender graveyard.
Sherod Tomlinson, son of Moses Tomlinson, Sr., married Sarah Ann Burkhalter, daughter of Hon. R. H. Burkhalter. She was born in 1827. Their children were : John P. Lucius, Joseph (deceased), Moses, Matthew, Augustus M., Velpo, William H., Annie, who married Moses C. Register; Amos B., and Ciby, who married Ratio Bridges. Sherod Tomlin- son was born February 6th, 1826, and died December 26th, 1885. He served a short while as a justice of the Inferior court, also as coroner.
Enoch Tomlinson, son of Moses Tomlinson, Sr., was born in 1834, and married Jemima Giddens. To them were born Duncan V., Joseph P., W. J. or Jasper, Enoch E., Lucretia, who married James A. O'Steen, and Jerushia, who married Bryant O'Steen.
Harris Tomlinson, son of William Tomlinson, Sr., was born in 1828, and married Martha Driggers. To them was born John, Caroline, Harris, Jr., Staten B., Levin, Jonas, James, William, Jr., Rebecca, Lucretia, Sallie and Nancy, Martha and Zilpha Tomlinson. Mr. Tomlinson was born December 8th, 1828 and died May 4th, 1899.
John Tomlinson, Jr., son of William Tomlinson, was born December 17th, 1804, and died November 8th, 1863. He married Zilpha, a daughter of Samuel Register. She was born February 4th, 1807, and died August 4th, 1883. Their children were William, who married Caroline Stalvey; Har- ris, who married Martha Stalvey; Elizabeth, who married Absalom Smith; Sallie, who married Benj. S. Stalvey; Guil- ford, who married Sarah Walden; Kittie, who married George W. Stalvey; Nancy, who married Moses Stalvey; Moses, who married Wealthy E. Mathis; Samuel, who mar- ried Elizabeth Mikell; Levin, who married Katie Moore; Penelope, who married D. C. Lancaster; John, who married Georgia Alderman, and Zilpha (never married).
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Candacy Tomlinson, who married John T. Roberts, was born in 1811, and their children were Moses, John, Isham, William, Tharp, Sallie, Rebecca, Lavinia and Matilda Roberts.
Rebecca Tomlinson, daughter of William Tomlinson, Sr., who married James Harvey Mizell, had several children, among whom were William Mizell and a daughter who mar- ried Jas. Roberts.
William S. Tomlinson was born in 1822 and married Ma- tilda Giddens. To them were born John G., Kizzie, Isbin, Matthew, George F., Mary and Alice Tomlinson. John G. Tomlinson was born January Ist, 1846, and died July 18th, 1893. Isbin Tomlinson was born in 1852, and died in No- vember, 1891.
THE BENNETT FAMILY.
John Bennett came from Sampson County, N. C., about 1830 and settled about two miles north of where Stockton now is in this county. He died about 1851, age about 80 years. He married Sallie, a sister of Samuel Register, and to them were born Dixon, Felix, Abraham, Wiley, Redding, Polly, Bettie and Dicy Bennett.
Dixon Bennett was born in 1810, and died May 6th, 1871, He married Sallie Driggers, and their children were John, William, Mark, Matthew, Sallie, who married Ezekiel Mathis, and Mary, who married John J. Smith.
Felix Bennett married Rebecca Smith, and their children were John, Felix, Redden, Dixon, Hansford, James, Rai- ford B., and Abraham Bennett. Felix Bennett, Sr., was born in 1813 and died in 1863.
Abraham Bennett was born about 1820, and married Katie McGill. Their children were Dixon, Jasper, Marion, Abram, Andrew, Lovedy, Tracie, Eliza and Flora Bennett.
Wiley Bennett was born November 10th, 1825, and mar- ried Luraney Harnage, daughter of George Harnage. To them were born Sarah Ann, who married D. J. Jeffords ;
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Abram, who married Sarah J. Taylor; Jerry, who married Ida Maine; Lucinda, who married Henry Fender; Guil- ford, who married Mattie Tomlinson; Redding, J., who married Mary Whilden; Dicy, who married T. J. Smith; Henry, who married Minerva Harnage; Levi, who mar- ried Ola Bennett; Wiley; Nellie, who married Jesse Cham- bers; Ben S., who married a Miss Chambers. Wiley Bennett, Sr., died December 7th, 1896. His wife was born in 1836, and died in 1873.
Redding Bennett was born January 19th, 1829, and mar- ried Annie Harnage, daughter of George Harnage. Their children were Sallie; Christina, who married Henry Guthrie; James Seward, who married Malinda Register; Ambrose, who married Matilda Guthrie; Wiley, Levin, Mahala, Bethany, Minerva, Emaline, and Annie Bennett. Mr. Bennett died February 8th, 1905, and is buried at Cow Creek Church.
There are other branches of the Bennett family in Clinch County, but they are not numerous. They are descended from Richard A. Bennett, who married Lavinia Newman, and who was many years a justice of the peace in Clinch County, and from John P. Bennett, who was born in 1819, and died December 12th, 1907.
THE DAME FAMILY.
This family came from Cheshire, England, where they have been freeholders since the reign of Edward the Fourth, a period of about five hundred years. Where they formerly lived is now known as the parish of "Leighton-Cain Minshal Vernon," in the town of Nautwick in Cheshire.
One of the most interesting stories of the English family is about Thomas Dame (or Damme, as it was sometimes spelled) who lived to a very great age. He was born in the year 1494, and died in 1648, age 154 years. He was buried in the churchyard of the parish of Church Minshal near Middlewick in Cheshire. The register of his death is still
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in existence, and is marked around with ink to call attention to the remarkable age. This is a copy of it :
Thomas Damme, of Leiggton, buried ye 20th of Ffebbruarie, being of the age of seven score and fourteen, 1648.
His wife is also buried in Church Minshal. He is said to have danced a hornpipe at the celebration of the opening of the present bridge over the river Weaver at Church Minshal, he then being 104 years old.
As nearly as can be found out, most of the family emi- grated during the Puritan troubles in England in the seven- teenth century, part going to Holland, where they are said to have established the Van Dam family, some to France, es- tablishing the Daime family, one becoming a French General, and part coming to America.
The first settlers of the name in America were John Dame, who settled in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1633, and be- came the ancestor of the Dame family in the New England States, and John Dame, who settled Virginia in 1638. John Dame, a lineal descendant of the original settler in Virginia, was an officer in the Continental army in the Revolutionary War, and commanded the Maryland Flying Corps.
The Dame family in Georgia is descended from George Dame and Mary Greene, his wife, who lived in Christ Church parish, Middlesex County, Virginia. Their children were Mary, who married John Jarvis, and George, born March 9th, 1784, and John Dame.
George and John Dame were soldiers of the War of 1812, with England. George was a private, first in Capt. John Waller's company of the 9th Regiment of Virginia Militia, and later in Capt. Tom Faulkner's company of the 9th Reg- iment, and later served in the 61st Regiment. John Dame
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was a private in the 21st Regiment of Virginia Militia, Gloucester County. After the War of 1812, they moved to Georgia, John settling in Jones County, and George in Mont- gomery County. The latter married Catherine Carter, a daughter of Elmore Carter and his wife, Delilah West, who were descended from the eminent Virginia families of those names.
The children of George Dame and Catherine Carter were : Delilah, who married Fiveash; Elizabeth, who married Higgs; George Appling, who married Sarah Thigpen, Nancy, who married O'Quin; Margaret, who married Five- ash; Matilda (died single) ; Charity, who married Gibbs; Emaline, who married, first, W. H. Clifton, and then R. B. Johnson; James W., who married Fannie Minshew, and Martha, who married Hutto.
After the war between the States, George Dame moved to Clinch County, but soon afterwards died at the age of eighty-four, and with his wife is buried at the old Dame homestead near Dames' Mill, in this county.
George Appling Dame married Sarah Thigpen, of Mont- gomery County, who was the daughter of Melancthon Thip- pen, and Barbara Ricks. Melancthon Thigpen was the son of Travis Thigpen and Hannah Hardy. Barbara Ricks was the daughter of Richard Ricks and Elizabeth Herren. These were all great slave-holding families of Middle Georgia.
George Appling Dame, having strong religious scruples against the waging of war, but loyal to his State and having deep sympathy for the distress of her citizens, was put on detail duty, and gave practically all he had for the relief of the widows and orphans of his neighbors. He moved to Clinch County in 1864, and died in 1882. He is buried at Prospect Church near DuPont. The children of Mr. Dame and his wife, Sarah, were: Arlia, who married Harris Tom- linson ; George Melancthon Dame, who married Linnie Har- greaves ; William Henry Dame, who married Caroline Cor-
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nelius; John Thigpen Dame, who married Olivia Brown, Kate Harwell, and Emma Smith, and Charles Elmore Dame, who died single.
James W. Dame, brother of George A. Dame, married Fannie Minshew, and was the father of five children : Lillian, George Tecumseh, John Minshew, Christopher Columbus, and James Willoughby Dame. Mr. Dame was born Sep- tember 15th, 1836, and died May 23d, 1891. He served in Company "H" 29th Georgia, in the Civil War.
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