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Gilmore, James Roberts

merchant, journalist, author, was born Sept. 10, 1823, in Boston, Mass. In earlier life he was a shipping merchant in New York city, but during and since the civil war a journalist and miscellaneous writer. He is the author of Among the Pines; My Southern Friends; Down in Tennessee; Life of Garfield; Among the Guerrillas; Adrift in Dixie; On the Border; Patriot Boys; The Rear Guard of the Revolution; John Sevier as a Commonwealth Builder; and The Advance Guard of Western Civilization. He