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By ALEX HORTON | The Washington Post | Published: March 11, 2021 It was early September 1864 when Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan, with a reputation among Southerners as a swashbuckling gentleman, was surrounded by federal soldiers outside a Tennessee mansion. Morgan fled across the lawn. A Union bullet shredded the general's heart, a member of his staff wrote to Morgan's wife, ending his campaign of ambushing and capturing U.S. troops. Nearly 160 years later, Morgan's legacy lives within 1st Battalion, 623rd Field Artillery Regiment of the Kentucky National Guard, which traces its lin...

Donald L Mosher Sr. 89, passed away peacefully at Newport Hospital after a brief battle. His body was tired but his spirit never failed. “MOE” was a native Newporter. He was born in Newport, Rhode Island to Erford L Mosher and Cornelia M (Hull) Mosher on September 5th 1931 during the Great Depression. He was one of thirteen children; Erford Leslie “Big Moe” Mosher; Lloyd Mosher; Arthur Mosher; Milton “Little Moe” Mosher; Nettie Mosher; Irving “Moe” Mosher; Malcolm Mosher; Chester Mosher; Earl Mosher; Phyllis (Mulligan) Mosher; Leonard “Lenny” Mosher; Charles Mosher. He is ...

to tell you something about julius becton. we are former comrades in arms. meeting first and september, 1967 at fort campbell, kentucky. when he and i were newly designated commanders in the 101st airborne division. the division was preparing to move by air to vietnam to join its first brigade, already there, which we did that december. . . earned by members of the second brigade task force, during the month of heavy fighting, in which with our vietnamese friends, we drove out the north vietnamese army units that on january 30, had launched the at the time owe -- tet offensive and br...