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Tales from a Monk in the Union Army: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign
Part of a series. By the summer of 1864, the war showed no signs of ending for Br. Bonaventure Gaul. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac remained gridlocked in the Siege of Petersburg, while Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s armies stalled outside of Atlanta. To draw Confederate attention away […]
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This is the first of a series. In 1864, the United States army was perhaps as diverse as it ever had been. By then, blacks, whites, Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, and Jews all served side by side in defense of the Union. But one member of the Army of the Potomac, Pvt. Bonaventure Gaul, did […]
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