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Re: Two wounded of 17th Mississippi

Certainly, June, but you don't need my permission. Credit should go to Greg Coco for his outstanding research and legacy - he passed away a few years ago. In Greg's book, A Vast Sea of Misery, he determined that a black tenant farmer, Basil Biggs, lived on and worked the John S. Crawford farm. Biggs was contracted in 1872 to uncover the numerous Confederate dead (principally from Barksdale's Mississippi and Semmes' Georgia brigades) on the farm and put them in coffins for onward transport to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.

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