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Stolen book returned by Union soldiers family

"Nearly 145 years after it was stolen by a Union soldier during a Civil War raid, a missing library book has been returned to the Washington and Lee University library by an Illinois man who inherited it from the soldier’s descendants."

http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/04/16/book0416.html

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David Upton