Published: 8/8/24The Teenagers’ WarBy: Terry JohnstonCategory: Editorial In June 1863, Captain Jacob Roemer’s Battery L, 2nd New York Light Artillery, was dispatched to take part in Ulysses S. Grant’s campaign against Vicksburg, Mississippi. On the way west,...
Published: 7/10/24The Power of a New YearBy: Terry JohnstonCategory: Editorial On New Year’s Eve 1862, 24-year-old William Thompson Lusk, a captain in the 79th New York Infantry, wrote to his sister about the year gone by—and the one to come....
