In my previous Cannonball blog post, I presented the transcript from an article that appeared
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, as Civil War veterans aged and reflected on
In Part 1 of this brief two-part series, we looked at some photos I took
The Grand Army of the Republic was the largest, and perhaps best known, of the
At one time, an impressive equestrian statue of a Union cavalry trooper from the Civil
English immigrant Johnnie Sisson ran away from home to join the army multiple times but was denied until 1864 when he joined the 51st Ohio.
John A. Martin, like many other local veterans of the Civil War, made plans in
In our last two Cannonball blog posts, we looked at the preparations in the city
In my last post, I shared an old 1913 newspaper account of the preparations in
On Sunday morning, June 28, 1863, Confederate Brigadier General John Brown Gordon and more than