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Confederate
Veteran.

VOL. XVIII.
JANUARY, 1910.
NO. 1.

MRS VIRGINIA FAULKNER McSHERRY, PRESIDENT GENERAL U. D. C.

Mrs. McSherry is an eminent representative of Southern womanhood. Richly gifted by education at home and abroad, she is well equipped for her exalted position in the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Mrs. McSherry is the daughter of Charles J. Faulkner, Member of Congress and Minister to France in the sixties. He was arrested on his return—suspected of "disloyalty". Her brother is U.S. Senator Faulkner, of Martinsburg, W. Va. She is the wife to Doctor McSherry, a successful physician of Martinsburg.