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SOUND COkTING
CIVIL WAR DIARY 1-1-1
2:35
While Civil War battles are being reconstructed
over the nation to commemmorate the centennial
anniversary of the Civil War, Fort Worth insurance
man Dick Bear has been doing some reconstructing
of his own. A friend, Mrs. Martha Goldsmith,
gets a close up look at a 3-foot cavalry sabre
which Bear's great-great uncle, Captain Thomas
W. Timberlake, used.in action against the Yankees
in the Shennandoah Valley of Virginia.
MED. GIRL AND WOMAN
Bear's wife and his 8-year-old daughter Carolyn
have $N become Civil War buffs, too, since
Bear dug up some old moments of the era on a
family plantation in Virginia. Among them was
a 97-year-old diary in which Captain Timberlake
mesed jotted down day-by-day accounts of action
during the fall of 1864. Timberlake refers
bitterly to the burning of barns and mills by
government troops, calling it "poor revenge for
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Civil War diary], script, August 8, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc940338/m1/1/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.