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“Recalling” Ford’s Theatre - a personal indulgence in Civil War “memory”
I didn’t learn about Edwin Arthur Emerson until about a year or so ago. I think the thing that most intrigued me was that, while I had been fascinated with the soldier family members who had served in the war, I did not realize that I had a family member present, on stage, on the [...]
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