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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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Clara Jones: A Civil War Nurse

Posted on October 30, 2017 by ECW Guest Post

Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author John Lustrea While only roughly 20% of all Civil War nurses were women, several notable women occupy a prominent place in our modern imagination when we think of Civil War nurses. Dorothea Dix, Clara … Continue reading →

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