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Winfield Scott Hancock Grave Norristown, Pa. Photo Tour
In May I travelled to Norristown in Pennsylvania to photograph Montgomery County’s Civil War monument. When I got there, I found it gone! The park…
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Gideon Welles: Democrats Should Have Nominated General Hancock to Run Against Grant 1868
In 1868, Union army commander Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Democrat Horatio Seymour in the presidential race. In his Journal for Nov. 17, 1868, Sec….