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As recalled by 101-year-old Confederate veteran Julius Howell in a 1947 speech. “We fought for states’ rights,” says the man who enlisted at age 16 after his slightly older childhood friends were killed in the Battle of Williamsburg. He talks about “why we fought” at around 14:30. His Virginia Cavalier accent is probably what Lee and Jefferson must have sounded like, says one comment.
1860s
Julius Howell enlisted at 16 to fight for the Confederacy in 1862. In this 1947 recording in DC, Howell at age 101, recalls his Civil War exploits as a cavalryman at Petersburg and Richmond and his memory of the assassination of President Lincoln from a Union POW camp.
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