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Below is shared a September 1862 letter which was written by a wounded war soldier while hospitalized in Chester. Note: So-called Old Main part of the Normal School, in Chester, was turned over for ...

WASHINGTON (WHTM) — In September 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Then in January of 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. One of the details that ...

On September 17, 1862, Gen. Lawrence O’Bryan Branch was shot and killed by a sharpshooter at the Battle of Sharpsburg. Born in 1820 in Halifax County, Branch was placed in the care of his uncle, U.S.

In Such a Clash of Arms, Kevin R. Pawlak offers a concise overview of the Maryland campaign of 1862, complete with the admirable inclusion of numerous brief vignettes and pictures. There is nothing ...

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