Ernest Franklin Dukes, Jr. Memoirs Project

E. Franklin Dukes witnessed first hand American farm life in the early twentieth century, life on the American frontier with the US Cavalry, the Great Depression, American imperialism in the Philippines, World War II, postwar Europe, Jim Crow, and the birth of the atomic age. His story is contained in his memoirs. They are fascinating reading. A copy of the memoirs, all four-hundred and some pages, can be downloaded from this website. There are both illustrated and plain versions, the plain version takes much less time to download. Each version is fomatted in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) and compressed postscript (.ps.gz). To read the .pdf version you will need a copy of Adobe Reader (Adobe Acrobat), which is free and can be found here.

Illustrated version: [.pdf] (48.8 MB) [.ps.gz] (111.1 MB)
Plain version: [.pdf] (4.0 MB) [.ps.gz] (2.3 MB)

Note:

Last modified: 27 March 2008.
Editing and illustrating the memoirs is a work in progress. If you find a mistake, please send the correction to the editor, E. Craig Dukes, at craigdukes at virginia.edu.
Should you want a copy of the memoirs on a CD, please send me an email.

Additional Information

Images from the Slingluff Bible family record, with marriage, birth and death information from 1807:

Page 677, Marriages:
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Page 678, Births:
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Page 679, Births/Deaths:
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Page 680, Deaths:
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Extra birth record:
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The August 1948 Infantry Journal article of E. Franklin Dukes, Jr.
Images from the funeral of E. Franklin Dukes, Jr.