Early next month, I’ll be sworn in as a member of Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. It’s the successor organization to the old Grand Army of the Republic, which was the organization of actual Union Civil-War veterans, and I have a couple of ancestors through whom I qualify. One was an Illinois cavalryman who, though his war service was not partic…
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