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let’s be guided by his spirit

at least the spirit of President Lincoln’s second inaugural I’m pretty sure The Seneca Falls Reveille (in Seneca County, New York) was a strongly pro-Democrat newspaper during the Civil War. 150 years ago today it published an editorial on the … Continue reading

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at winter quarters

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1864: From the First Veteran Cavalry. Camp Piatt – Kanawha Salt Works – Coal and Oil – Politics in the Army. CAMP PIATT, W.Va., Oct. 12, 1864. FRIEND STOWELL: – It is … Continue reading

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