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Charles Henry Veil, John Reynolds, and the Johnstown Flood

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Chris Mackowski

Following the death of Maj. Gen. John Reynolds on the first day of the battle of Gettysburg, staff member Charles Henry Veil was tasked with recovering Reynolds’s body. Veil’s involvement in that mission would end with a strange postscript, years … Continue reading →

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