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Post by Miss Rose on Apr 15, 2009 12:33:59 GMT -4
By ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON, Associated Press Writer Zinie Chen Sampson, Associated Press Writer – Wed Apr 15, 7:53 am ET RICHMOND, Va. – Washington and Lee University has a missing library book back on its shelves — nearly 145 years after it was stolen by a Union soldier during the Civil War. The 1842 book, the first volume of W.F.P. Napier's four-volume "History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814," was returned recently by a friend of one of the soldier's descendants to the Lexington school's Leyburn Library. See full article and photos: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090415/ap_on_re_us/pilfered_book_returned
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