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Richard Eppes
Surgeon
1824 – 1896
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Who was Richard Eppes?
Richard Eppes was a prominent planter in Prince George County, Virginia and a surgeon in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Eppes is notable for his having kept extensive journals about his plantation and life; the journals for 1849 and 1851-1896 are held by the Virginia Historical Society and have been invaluable to historians of the antebellum South.
His Appomattox Manor was used as a base by Union general Ulysses S. Grant during his siege of Petersburg, Virginia.
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