Posted on March 24, 2008 by cenantua
The following is from Chapter 12 of the History of the Twelfth West Virginia Infantry (by William Hewitt) which is available on Linda Cunningham Fluharty’s fantastic website about that regiment.
… regarding the war from a moral and political standpoint, it sometimes seems as if the war did not last long enough. It took years of the terrible [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by cenantua
Thanks to a recent comment, I’ve been made aware of an error. Well, at least it appears to be an error. There are two headstones in the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia that are mix-match in nature when it comes to data and design. Really, this is no great surprise. As I mentioned in [...]
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