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Unknown Confederate Soldier

The original is owned by Carol Owens Spears. It was given to her by Mildred Smith (Mrs. Dea Millspaugh), daughter of Robert Edgar Smith and Ada Rochester Sanders. Sources have identified the uniform as that of an enlisted soldier in a Confederate cavalry unit. Assuming that the man is indeed a relative, is he a Smith, a Skidmore, a Sanders? Could he be Robert Orlando Smith himself or maybe Shadrack Hendricks, first husband of R.O. Smith’s wife, Nancy America Skidmore?

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