Selasa, 10 April 2018

Yankee Fugitives on the Lam

Hunted across the wilds of the Carolinas after a daring escape, John Ennis thought of home and friends—and the Confederate patrols on his heels. When John W. Ennis enlisted in the Union Army on May 13, 1861, the Civil War was nearly a month old. Thoughts of easy victory and battlefield glory no doubt occupied …

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