Jumat, 28 April 2017

‘Hundreds of Rebels Lay There’

A New York sergeant’s firsthand account of fighting on Culp’s Hill. Lorenzo Coy was 30 years old when he enlisted in the Union Army in Granville, N.Y., on August 5, 1862. Agreeing to a three-year term of service, he joined Company K of the 123rd New York Infantry. Coy’s 19-year-old brother Chauncey followed suit a …

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