The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Diana L. Dretske - UA) Ed Bearss and the role pictorial images

and the role pictorial images played in establishing the document in public memory

The David Wills Building is perhaps best remembered for hosting President Abraham Lincoln in mid-November 1863 when he visited Gettysburg to dedicate the Soldiers National Cemetery by delivering his famous Gettysburg Address speech

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by Dwight Sturtevant Hughes  (Author)

The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Diana L. Dretske - UA) Ed Bearss and the role pictorial imagesby Diana L. Dretske When curator Diana L. Dretske discovered that the five long gone Union soldiers in a treasured photograph in the Bess Bower Dunn Museum were not fully identified, it compelled her into a project of recovery and reinterpretation. Utilizing an impressive array of local and national archives, as well as private papers, the authors microhistorical approach records events that often go unnoticed, such as a farmer enlisting in the middle