was revealed as Sergeant Amos Humiston of the 154th New York Volunteers
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and have threaded these intelligence gems in an exciting and fast-paced narrative that includes a significant amount of new information
from soldiers’ advocate Clara Barton and African American leader and Lincoln critic-turned-admirer Frederick Douglass (who called the speech “a sacred effort”) to conflicted actor John Wilkes Booth―all swirling around the complex figure of Lincoln
The brilliant campaign nearly cleared the state of Rebels and changed the calculus of the Civil War in the Western Theater
Jennie Wade House wilderness was revealed as Sergeant AmosDuring the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1 3, 1863, young Gettysburg native Mary Virginia Jennie Wade rode out the firestorm at her sisters home, Mrs. J. Lewis McClellan, baking bread and supplying water for the nearby fighting Union soldiers. During the early morning hours of the final day of battle, a stray Confederate snipers bullet, believed to have been fired from the Farnsworth House, passed through two doors and struck Jennie in the back, killing