December 15, 2025
Tag: The Ballad of Tom Dooley
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The Murder of Laura Foster
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The murder of Laura Foster was in all the papers. Did you miss it? You may have, the murder occurred in 1866. Shortly after a Confederate soldier returned home following his release from a Union Army prison, his girlfriend’s body was found in a shallow grave and Tom Dula was accused.
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March 2, 2022 5 Comments
Postcards of prisons were seldom used as change of address notices, but they do remind us that even in our modern day world, prisons are as necessary as they were centuries ago.