Courting Miss Nellie Print Style:50 Artist's Proof Paper Giclées My granddaughter Laura posed as

My granddaughter Laura posed as the girl with the apple and her mother is my wife Deborah

Captain Thurman Thomas of the 13th Mississippi Volunteers

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Style Image Size Archival Paper 25 1/2" x 17" Signature Edition 27" x 18" Classic Edition 32" x 21" Premier Edition 39" x 26" Collector's Edition 56" x 37"

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Courting Miss Nellie Print Style:50 Artist's Proof Paper Giclées My granddaughter Laura posed asNellie Grandstaff Koontz Edinburg Mill Virginia, 1862 Nellie Ellen Koontz was born in Edinburg, Virginia on January 13, 1845. She was a beautiful, precocious, and strong willed child, being raised by her parents William J. Koontz and Elizabeth Ann Grandstaff. Nellies mother was the daughter of Major George Grandstaff, an old US Army veteran of the Mexican War and owner of the Edinburg Mill. As the American Civil War raged throughout much of the