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Fire as Cold Comfort

January 1862 was very cold. The 19th NY Volunteer Infantry suffered on its march from Frederick to Hancock, Md. Here a Seneca County newspaper paraphrases a letter from James Ashcroft, the captain of the 19th’s Company C. Ashcroft or the … Continue reading

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