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The Civil War Letters of the Pierson Family

Baptists and the American Civil War: October 1, 1862

Disappointment permeates the Confederacy following General Robert E. Lee’s unsuccessful foray northward. Now back in Virginia following the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam), Reuben Allen Pierson of Mount Lebanon, Louisiana is serving as a sergeant in Company C, Ninth Louisiana Infantry in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Mount Lebanon had been established in 1837 primarily by…

October 1, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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