Steven | November 26, 2008
Here’s something you don’t run across every day. This is the clipped signature of John S Wise, who was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute during the Civil War, and fought as cadet at the Battle of New Market. Later in the war he became a Lieutenant in the Confederate Army. After the war, [...]
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Steven | November 22, 2008
Thought I’d get back into the the habit of really updating the blog, instead of just posting “twitters” in the side column. Today’s look is at Mr. Durbin Ward of Ohio. Self-taught and a voracious reader as a youngster, as an adult he passed the bar and became law partners with fellow Whig Thomas Corwin, [...]
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