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Richmond. His hotel venture failed and he moved through a succession of hotel management positions around Virginia and
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Appomattox Court House. In a letter to her brother in Philadelphia, Mrs. Cobb wrote that her home in Farmville had been occupied by the Northern Army and that all
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