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Daniel G. Clark reviews newspaper accounts of the 1st Iowa African regiment (which included Alexander Clark) during the Civil War.
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Daniel G. Clark reviews newspaper accounts of the 1st Iowa African regiment (which included Alexander Clark) during the Civil War.
The park will be named Oglesby Park after Benjamin Oglesby, an enslaved man who was brought to the area from Virginia in 1837.
The latest Women of Taunton explores the life and work of Emily Elizabeth Parsons, Civil War nurse and founder of Mount Auburn Hospital.
Trolling through newspaper archives for the good stuff can take months or years. The quirky, the weird, the offbeat is always buried in the backlog,...
Pvt. Martin Brockway, 4th Michigan Infantry, could be considered a typical Civil War soldier. He was young, a farmer and likely felt a need to serve.