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A Most Unusual Wartime Wedding

Four Saunders siblings from Norfolk, Virginia served the Confederacy: three brothers enlisted in the military, and their oldest sister worked for the government in Richmond. Elizabeth Selden Saunders was among hundreds of young women who moved into the South’s capital city during the war. In a wartime memoir, Richmond During the War, Sallie B. Putnam […]