Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston (Mark H. Dunkelman - AG) quiz Two decades after the end

Two decades after the end of the Civil War

by Lois Lembo and Leon Reed

The First Edition

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Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston (Mark H. Dunkelman - AG) quiz Two decades after the endGettysburg's Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death & Celebrity of Amos Humiston By Mark Dunkleman Lying dead in Gettysburg in 1863, a solitary Union soldier lacked any standard means of identification. Only a single clue was clutched in his fingers: an ambrotype of his three young children. With this photograph, the single clue to his identity, a publicity campaign to locate the soldier's family swept the North. Within a month, his grieving widow and