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Obituary in the Alexandria Gazette published on the day Blackford died.

A satire critiquing the lack of work and progress in the U.S. Congress; interestingly, one of the talking points of the fictitious Congressmen in the story was building Confederate monument to “sisters who nursed in the Civil War.”

A story describing a Southern man who served in the U.S. Navy falling in love with a Southern woman before the Civil War and deciding to fight for the South.

A photograph of the tablet memorializing Episcopal students who died fighting for the Confederacy

A sketch of the Confederate Lieutenant General Wade Hampton

An article describing Episcopal's commencement exercise in 1902. Rev. Robert Strange gave an sermon on "What is your life?", followed by the valedictory address of Oscar De Wolf Randolph on the "character and example of Robert E. Lee." The Fairfax…