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River Bend had a United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter

by

John J. Dunphy

Originally published in the August 16, 2009 edition of The Telegraph of Alton, IL. Another version of this column appears in Springhouse magazine (26:6) under the title “Sam Davis 803 Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.” This material is also covered in my book Abolitionism and the Civil War in Southwestern Illinois.

John J. Dunphy is the author of Abolitionism and the Civil War in Southwestern Illinois, Murder and Mayhem in Southwestern Illinois, Lewis and Clark’s Illinois Volunteers, From Christmas to Twelfth Night in Southern Illinois and Unsung Heroes of the Dachau Trials: The Investigative Work of the U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group, 1945–1947. He owns The Second Reading Book Shop in Alton, IL.