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Samuel Simon Schmucker
Photographer: Karl Stelly
Taken: July 8, 2013
Caption: Samuel Simon Schmucker's Bible
Additional Description: A Confederate soldier retrieved Schmucker's Holy Bible from the pile of debris and then carefully placed it upon his bookcase, having written "J. G. Bearden of the reel army...this is the Holy Beile (sic) I pick up out of the...and has placed on the case again." inside the cover.
Submitted: July 13, 2013, by Karl Stelly of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p247148
File Size: 0.668 Megabytes

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