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		<title>When a Confederate soldier came-a-courtin&#8217; a Southern Unionist&#8217;s daughter</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/when-a-confederate-soldier-came-a-courtin-a-southern-unionists-daughter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Moore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Addison Windle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ann Jemima Windle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George W. Hillyard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joseph W. Hodge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While shuffling through some family history notes lately, I came across a story that I had forgotten about. A distant cousin (half first cousin, three times removed), George W. Hillyard, who served in the 12th Virginia Cavalry, and was a native of Winchester, Virginia, found time during the war to find romance with a young [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5109966&amp;post=628&amp;subd=southernunionistschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rebecca Wright: Winchester Unionist and Sheridan&#8217;s &#8220;Little Quaker Girl&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Moore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Women Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amos Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battle of Opequon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clear Brook Virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frederick County Virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General George Crook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General James W. Forsyth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenwood Cemetery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hopewell Meeting House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millwood Virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Sheridan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quakers in the Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Lupton Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca L. Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca McPherson Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samuel M. Janney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Loyal Girl of Winchester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodore W. Bean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Laws]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[William Carpenter Bonsal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January, 1867, while serving as the head of the Department of the Gulf, in New Orleans, Gen. Philip Sheridan penned a letter to Rebecca Wright, in Winchester, Virginia, regarding affairs in which she had played part, less than three years before. &#8220;You are not probably aware of how great a service you rendered the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5109966&amp;post=613&amp;subd=southernunionistschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The reign of terror in Loudoun, Va.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/the-reign-of-terror-in-loudoun-va/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Moore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hagerstown Maryland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herald of Freedom & Torch Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Letcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society of Friends]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following comes from the July 24, 1861 issue of Hagerstown, Maryland&#8217;s Herald of Freedom and Torch Light: A gentleman from Waterford, Loudoun county, Virginia, of a party of twelve Union men who escaped across the Potomac on Sunday night and reached here yesterday, represents the reign of terror in that county as unprecedented. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5109966&amp;post=606&amp;subd=southernunionistschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for photos of Galvanized Yankees</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/looking-for-photos-of-galvanized-yankees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Moore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Administrative Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Galvanized Yankees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While photos of Galvanized Yankees in blue uniforms might be near impossible to find (or haven&#8217;t been identified), I&#8217;m still on the hunt for them&#8230; as well as photos of these same fellows in postwar years (or, for that matter, even of them in gray!). Additionally, if there are any photos of the junior officers, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5109966&amp;post=603&amp;subd=southernunionistschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reuben Kite&#8217;s story</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/reuben-kites-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 14:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Moore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Southern Unionist refugees]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[James Lee Gillespie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Shields]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lydia Ann Koontz Kite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Page County Virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reuben Kite]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not that I&#8217;ve found a great deal about Kite, but, I do know that he was one of four men from Page County, Virginia to actually be bold enough to vote against secession during the referendum. Kite, a 34-year-old farmer, with $6,000 in real estate, not only voted against secession, but stuck it out in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5109966&amp;post=592&amp;subd=southernunionistschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New markers in Waterford, Va. highlight Southern Unionism there</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/new-markers-in-waterford-va-highlight-southern-unionism-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 13:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Moore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Southern Union soldiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loudoun County Virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loudoun Rangers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the Loudoun County Civil War Roundtable site, blogosphere pal Craig Swain makes mention of the events of May 21, in Waterford, Virginia. The folks up that way are giving a good deal of attention to the Loudoun Rangers, and it&#8217;s great to see. Meanwhile, I hear that another blogosphere friend, Ron Baumgarten has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5109966&amp;post=589&amp;subd=southernunionistschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who thinks that that only Lincoln did this? Silly goose&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/who-thinks-that-that-only-lincoln-did-this-silly-goose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Moore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Examples of acts against Southern Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Proctor Kane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[habeas corpus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Henry Winder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Minor Botts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martial law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norfolk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portsmouth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southern Unionist post-worthy is the fact that 149 years ago, on this day, Jefferson Davis suspended habeas corpus and declared martial law in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia because of Union threats. Two days later, the same was done in Richmond, Virginia; Gen. John H. Winder being declared military governor of the city. Part of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5109966&amp;post=579&amp;subd=southernunionistschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>150 years ago today, the majority in Tennessee said &#8220;no&#8221; to secession convention&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/150-years-ago-today-the-majority-in-tennessee-said-no-to-secession-convention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Moore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tennessee Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Parson" William Brownlow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Morris Potter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 9, 1861, Tennessee said her peace&#8230; 69,387 voted against secession, while 57,798 voted in favor (I&#8217;ve seen stats that challenge these exact numbers, but the percentage is about the same).  Now, some folks are quick to point out that it was quite a narrow margin, however, as David Morris Potter points out in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5109966&amp;post=572&amp;subd=southernunionistschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virginians feel S.C. is dragging her into war&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/virginians-feel-s-c-is-dragging-her-into-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Staunton Spectator, February 5, 1861: As there is some conservatism in Virginia, and we seem anxious to secure an honorable settlement, South Carolina is about to apply the spur again. She first rejects unanimously the resolutions of Virginia. She secondly declares that her secession is final. Lastly, she is going to force a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5109966&amp;post=568&amp;subd=southernunionistschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Fighting for the Union&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As published in the Staunton Spectator, January 17, 1861 (courtesy of the Valley of the Shadow site, this page). It is a matter of surprise that any serious apprehensions as to the stability of the Union should now be felt in any quarter. With the exception of the insignificant faction of ultra abolitionists at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5109966&amp;post=550&amp;subd=southernunionistschronicles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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