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“I am a poor colored soldier…” – Finding Private Anthony Wren
ECW welcomes back guest author Jon-Erik Gilot Several years ago the historical society in my hometown of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, received a donation of books, photographs, and papers relating to Pinkney Lewis Bone. Bone was something of a local celebrity … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, USCT
Tagged 52nd Ohio, 9th United States Colored Heavy Artillery, Anthony Wren, civil war veterans, Department of Cumberland, disabled Civil War veterans, Grand Army of the Republic, Jon-Erik Gilot, Mount Pleasant Ohio, Nashville, Ohio, Pinkney Bone, quakers, Short Creek Cemetery, USCT
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Hood Remembered: Meg Groeling
It is not two years since the sight of a person who had lost one of his lower limbs was an infrequent occurrence. Now, Alas! there are few of us who have not a cripple among our friends if not … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Personalities
Tagged aftermath of battle, amputations, Battle of Gettysburg, civil war dearhs, Confederate army, Confederate veterans, disabled Civil War veterans, emergency amputations, General Hood, Gettysburg, Hood, Hood-Remembered, Jefferson Davis, John Bell Hood, medicine, Memory, Oliver Wendell Holmes, prosthetics, Sally Preston, Union veterans, veterans' benefits Civil War, wounded warriors
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