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Gettysburg Magazine #47 freedom The CSS Virginia was aJuly 2012 Articles written by Edwin Bearss, Thomas J. Ryan, R. L. Murry, Joseph Stahl, John B. Whiteford, Cooper H. Wingert, Sonny Fulks, Richard E. Clem, Todd Jones, and Silas Felton.