Tag: Civil War

More than 50,000 men die at Gettysburg in U.S. Civil War

“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this Nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” President A. Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19,...

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Civil War diary comes home

A late Auroran’s Civil War battlefield pocket diary came home Friday, June 12. Harry Reineke IV, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, presented documents and a diary handwritten by Union Army corporal Frederick L. Thayer. Accepting the items from Reineke was Eric Pry, director of Aurora’s Grand Army...

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