Monthly Archives: April 2018

One of the most colorful figures of 19th century America, and an unsung hero of the American civil war was a general whose first name was Lew.  Unfairly maligned for bringing his division late to the battlefield at Shiloh, he was relegated to a quiet sector in Maryland, where his suspect capabilities were thought less likely to hinder the Union cause.  Yet there in July, 1864 he suddenly found himself in the path of 35,000 Confederate soldiers bearing down on…..

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