Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston (Mark H. Dunkelman - AG) Section - 1st Day Dorchester

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The real lives of ordinary people who leave their homes and families behind to answer duty's call for this new and inexperienced nation are featured

they had cleared the Shenandoah Valley of Union soldiers and crossed the Potomac River

Lincoln’s anecdotes and jokes have become detached from the context that had given them their political and cultural bite

Nance actively tried to free herself

Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston (Mark H. Dunkelman - AG) Section - 1st Day DorchesterGettysburg's Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death & Celebrity of Amos Humiston By Mark Dunkleman Lying dead in Gettysburg in 1863, a solitary Union soldier lacked any standard means of identification. Only a single clue was clutched in his fingers: an ambrotype of his three young children. With this photograph, the single clue to his identity, a publicity campaign to locate the soldier's family swept the North. Within a month, his grieving widow and