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After Bull Run: Mutineers, Scapegoats, and the Dead
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Three regiments filled with Irish and Scotch immigrant New Yorkers struggled to survive in the days after Bull Run. The Seventy-Ninth New York Highlanders was a proud…
Elmer Ellsworth Grave in Mechanicville NY and Lost Birthplace
In March, I travelled to Saratoga County, north of New York’s capital at Albany to visit the birthplace and the grave of Elmer Ellsworth. While…
First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North’s First Civil War Hero by Meg Groeling
First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North’s First Civil War Hero by Meg Groeling published by Savas Beatie (2021) Elmer Ellsworth is…