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Monday, June 28, 2021

Peg Leg Graham Leaves Message for Confederate Comrades, June 27, 1921

Peg Leg Graham Is In Dying Condition

Rutherford, June 27—Col. Peg Leg Graham continues very ill here. He gave his final message to his Confederate comrades today.

“Tell my comrades in the Charlotte camp I will not meet with them any more. See that I am put away all right. Would like for my Sunday school at Pineville to attend my funeral. I want to be buried in my new Confederate uniform, which the Daughters gave me at Sharon. I will soon cross over the river.”

From The Charlotte News, June 27, 1921. Daughters of the Confederacy organization gave Graham his new Confederate uniform.

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