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Corporal Corpulent?

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in April 1863: A Young Corporal. The Rochester Union says that a private letter from an officer in the 20th Reg. N.Y.S.V., to a friend in that city states that a Corporal in … Continue reading

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Florence Nightingales

150 years ago this week Harper’s Weekly published the following image of women at work helping the Union war effort: Son of the South also has the accompanying article: The war has produced scores of Florence Nightingales.

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