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On May 1, 1863, most Confederate troops in the vicinity of Fredericksburg received orders to March toward Chancellorsville, several miles to the west. Left behind to defend the right flank of the Army of Northern Virginia were a Mississippi brigade…

Reuben Goodson (born ca. 1841) farmed with his parents and seven siblings in the Dry Pond community of Lincoln County (now called Denver). He volunteered on March 20, 1862, in a new company called the “Dry Pond Dixies,” subsequently Company G, 52nd…