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We were just drove in to the slotter [sic] pen... our men fell like grass before the sythe. - S.F. Buchanan, 48th Virginia Infantry - Pearce Collection Letters


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Civil War Round Table of Dallas Members Visit the Grand Opening of The Pearce Collections at Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas on October 11, 2003

Civil War Round Table of Dallas Member Frank Braswell (center) with Darrell Beauchamp (Dean of Learning Resources and Special Collections) and Julie Holcomb (College and Special Collections Archivist).

Form more information about the Pearce Civil War Collection, click on the following links:
http://www.navarrocollege.edu/library/civilwar/index.htm
Corsicana Daily Sun Article 1

Corsicana Daily Sun Article 2

Frank Braswell and Ed Hemphill. Other members present at the opening were Edna Hemphill, Dean Hosier and Gerry and Polly York.


Sculpture Entitled: "Letter From Home"
The Confederate soldier is holding a letter in his right hand. He is sitting on the hub of a broken wagon wheel.

Close-up of the sculpture which sits in the rotunda at the entrance doors to the Pearce Collections.




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