By Thomas M. Cooper
The Cleveland Civil War Roundtable
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published in The Charger in December 2024.
The biographical details of our ancestors emerge slowly, and perhaps this is a good thing. History needs to marinate some events over time so that their meaning can be understood by the living, in deeper, broader contexts. This is especially true for wartime histories involving trauma and the years required to remember-and-resolve. This is one of the reasons we study these periods and come together to talk about them.
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