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With a condition: If the North should win the war his inheritance would be "confiz-_cate_ '" and there would be nothing to begin life on but the poor child's burned down home behind Mobile, unless, for mutual protection, nothing else, -- except "one dollar and other valuable considerations," -- he should preconvey the Brodnax estate to the poor child, who, at least, had never been "foun 'out" to have done anything to subject property of hers to confiscation.
Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884
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