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SSlater · (This post was last modified: 03-25-2015 02:59 PM by SSlater.)

(03-24-2015 07:40 AM)Gene C Wrote: Is this the book you are referring to - "The Rebel Scout" by Capt. Thomas Nelson Conrad?
https://archive.org/stream/rebelscoutthr...0/mode/2up

Yes, Gene, that's one of them. The other is "A Confederate Spy". Both books are very similar. (how could they be different, if they cover the same subject?) He probably made a few changes, just so it would sell. Thomas Nelson Conrad was a noted figure after the war. He wrote articles for newspapers, about his experiences. He became the President of "Virginia A & M", (now known as "Virginia Tech.). His political support was a group called the "Adjusters". That group was protesting the "Tax" that the Federal government placed on the Confederate States, in their effort to pay for the war. Since West Virginia was part of Virginia before the war, they should be made to pay part of Virginia's bill. I'll have to look up whether or not they paid.

(03-25-2015 02:58 PM)SSlater Wrote:
(03-24-2015 07:40 AM)Gene C Wrote: Is this the book you are referring to - "The Rebel Scout" by Capt. Thomas Nelson Conrad?
https://archive.org/stream/rebelscoutthr...0/mode/2up
Yes, Gene, that's one of them. The other is "A Confederate Spy". Both books are very similar. (how could they be different, if they cover the same subject?) He probably made a few changes, just so it would sell. Thomas Nelson Conrad was a noted figure after the war. He wrote articles for newspapers, about his experiences. He became the President of "Virginia A & M", (now known as "Virginia Tech.). His political support was a group called the "Adjusters". That group was protesting the "Tax" that the Federal government placed on the Confederate States, in their effort to pay for the war. Since West Virginia was part of Virginia before the war, they should be made to pay part of Virginia's bill. I'll have to look up whether or not they paid.

I forgot to mention, he's buried in Blacksburg.