Jumat, 27 April 2018

‘General Wheat, Is That You?’

How I came to discover an unidentified ambrotype of a legendary New Orleans warrior. In the fall of 1860, a New York Herald reporter visited a group of American and British adventurers in England preparing to aid Giuseppe Garibaldi in his quest to unite Italy. “And, goodness gracious, can it be?”  the newspaperman mused in …

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