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A Sesquicentennial Speakers Bureau program will be presented at 7:00 p.m., Friday, August 3, at the Pearl Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro. Dr. Kenneth Bailey will give a talk entitled “Scratch ‘em and Sue ‘em: Post Civil War Legal Issues.” The talk is free and the public is cordially invited to attend. The Pearl Buck Birthplace and the Friends of Hillsboro Public Library are working with the Humanities Council to present the program in Hillsboro. For several years following the war much of West Virginia’s court system was consumed by war-related legal issues. Former Confederates were “scratched” from the voting rolls and sued for alleged wrongs on civilians during the war. Historian Kenneth Bailey discusses legal cases dealing with the reconstruction era questions of voting, false arrest, belligerent rights, property disputes, acts of Confederate county officers, value of Confederate money, etc. from the end of the war until the “let up” restored rights to former rebels in this former border state. Images of individuals and documents are used to illustrate topics covered and to enhance the lecture.