The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Diana L. Dretske - UA) swords Stuart left Virginia acting on

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Abraham Lincoln often captured “his best thoughts

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William "Extra Billy" Smith

The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Diana L. Dretske - UA) swords Stuart left Virginia acting onby Diana L. Dretske When curator Diana L. Dretske discovered that the five long gone Union soldiers in a treasured photograph in the Bess Bower Dunn Museum were not fully identified, it compelled her into a project of recovery and reinterpretation. Utilizing an impressive array of local and national archives, as well as private papers, the authors microhistorical approach records events that often go unnoticed, such as a farmer enlisting in the middle