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    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="creation" era="ce" normal="1861/1865" type="inclusive">Inclusive 1861-1865</unitdate>
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      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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<p>The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.  Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections.</p>  </userestrict>
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<p>Preferred citation: [Identification of item], David Lawrence Hopkins Papers, WLU Coll. 0279, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA. <p>In some cases the citation format may vary. Please contact Special Collections staff to verify the appropriate format.</p></p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Blue sheet prepared by Betty Kondayan (March 6, 2003)</p>  </processinfo>
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    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>David Lawrence Hopkins was a Lexington, Virginia native and a Confederate captain during the American Civil War.</p>  </bioghist>
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<p>The papers of Captain David L. Hopkins, include 12 letters to his wife, Lou, all but one from his post in Lynchburg, Virginia, concerning their Lexington, Virginia farm, food supplies, mutual acquaintances, and occasionally the war, in particular the Battle of Lynchburg as well as several other family letters and Confederate money.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/996779" source="fast">Correspondence</subject>
    <geogname source="fast">United States -- Confederate States of America</geogname>
    <subject source="fast">Social history</subject>
    <geogname source="fast">Virginia -- Lexington</geogname>
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