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Is that Janice?

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William T. Kemper Jr, son of the wealthy Kansas City banking family, selected as one of America’s 20 Best Dressed Men by the National Association of Merchant Tailors. Dressed here for sport & working the family farm. (Feb 1939).

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The young boy is identified as William Purdy. There was a local Korean War veteran of some honor by that name but I don’t think the age & dates work for it to have been him.
 
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George Michael Neese, New Market, VA. (1839-1921)

Served in the Army of Northern Virginia beginning in 1861 in a local militia before becoming a ***ner in Chew's Battery of Stuart's Horse Artillery. The unit saw plenty of action & Neese was captured at Fisher’s Hill, VA in Oct 1864. He was sent to the Federal prison at Point Lookout, MD where he was eventually paroled after signing the Oath of Allegiance to the Union & arrived home on July 4th, 1865. Neese kept a journal throughout the war, only missed writing an entry on a few days. His journal was published in book form in 1911 titled "Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery."

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