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served on the Madison County Board of Supervisors.
Two books were featured during the lecture, For Home And Honor, The Story Of Madison County During The War Between The States 18611865, and, The Confederacy’s Forgotten Son, Major General James Lawson Kemper, C.S.A. Governor Of Virginia.
Woodward begins the evening by stepping down off the pulpit (at one time, the bookstore had been a church) and says, “I’ll stand down on this level so I’m not preaching to you....A historian is supposed to be purely objective, but I’m not, so I’m not a historian.”
Woodward talks about his book, “...the first time a book has been done solely on Madison’s involvement in the war.”
There were no major battles fought, but troop movement was extensive through Madison during the war. And in 1861, ten percent of Madison’s population went to
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