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Leon Edmund Basile (#46949851)
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Bio Photo Leon Basile suffered a left carotid dissection, causing a permanent cognitive disability and aphasia.

Favourite Quotation
"I runne to death,
and death meets me as fast,
And all my pleasures are like yesterday."
- John Donne (1573-1631), HOLY SONNETS, I

Background
Bachelor of Arts (a double major in history and English), University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1977.

Certificate in Archives Administration from the Georgia Dept. of Archives & History and the Emory University Division of Librarianship, 1978.

Master of Arts (history - American), University of Georgia, 1979. Thesis: "Attala County, Mississippi, 1850-1860: A Social History" (1979).

Attended Officers Candidate School, United States Marine Corps (Quantico, Va.), but did not complete it and was honorably discharged in 1980.

Publications

Books

Edited THE CIVIL WAR DIARY OF AMOS E. STEARNS, A PRISONER AT ANDERSONVILLE (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1981).

Author of A UNION TOWN DURING THE CIVIL WAR: WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS, Volume I (Woburn Historical Society/Sonrel Press, 2012).

Contributed articles to such scholarly journals and magazines as CIVIL WAR HISTORY, LINCOLN HERALD, THE JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPPI HISTORY, THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY MAGAZINE, NORTH SOUTH TRADER, and THE ANTIQUES JOURNAL.

Honour
Jefferson Davis Medal in Gold, awarded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy for "Outstanding Research in Southern History," 1976.

Memberships
Marine Corps Assn. & Fdn.; Marine Corps Heritage Fdn.; Medal of Honor Historical Soc. of the United States; USO Sponsoring Member; Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Assn. (Sustaining Member); The University of Georgia Alumni Assn.; Woburn (Mass.) Historical Soc.; Honorary Citizen of Boys Town.

Additional information
As an historian, has concentrated mainly in the social history of the antebellum and Civil War periods.
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Libby Talley
Gen Morris David Vance
(((HUGS))) I'm sorry for your health problems. I hope you are getting better daily. I want to thank you for the photo of General Vance and all of the information you have provided. I just got some more information about him, his parents.

Libby
Added by Libby Talley on May 24, 2013 10:16 AM
Anne Cady
August Parker
I added the transcription of the marker to the record per your request.
Added by Anne Cady on May 07, 2013 7:32 PM
Kahi McClellan
RE: Hugh O'Reilly, Schofield Barracks Post Cem.
You're welcome! Let me know if you have anymore for Oahu.
Added by Kahi McClellan on Apr 08, 2013 7:49 PM
Eve
Poppenheim
Thank you so much for adding the photo of Mary Barnett Poppenheim to her Memorial. :)

Eve
Added by Eve on Mar 31, 2013 2:20 PM
Lisa R. Franklin
Thank you
Just wanted to say thank you for your postings on findagrave and to say God Bless you. Having suffered a right carotid dissection myself 8 years ago I empathize with you and wish you the best. I will say that I am happy to have learned that you do still have small gains even after so many years have gone by since my stroke.
~hugs~
Lisa
Added by Lisa R. Franklin on Sep 17, 2012 6:18 AM
 

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