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Publisher
Becker County Museum
Publication Date
2021
Physical Desc
253 pages : black and white portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Nearly 400 Civil War veterans made their way to Becker County; settling our towns and building our industries. Their names remain on our streets, buildings, townships, and the families of those who took root and stayed. Without them, Becker County would not have grown to be a county with a diverse cultural heritage and strong history. This book gives a brief glimpse into the lives of these veterans so their stories and service will never be forgotten....
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117 blind and deaf and bedridden in his daughter's home in Houston, Texas, no longer could tell of his time as a Confederate forage master. The last of the Blue and the Gray were drifting...
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