Selasa, 07 November 2017

Letters from Readers- America’s Civil War September 2011

Picture perfect (?) Pulling rank The article “Buying Time” in your July 2011 issue shows a picture of Corporal Henry O’Brien, who raised the 1st Minnesota Infantry’s regimental flag and charged Pickett’s army at Gettysburg. Why is he wearing an officer’s uniform? Norman L. Fish Portage, Pa. Henry O’Brien was a corporal when he led …

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