Cruising the Potomac and Elsewhere with Brig. Gen. John P. Slough’s Brigade Band

By MI Digital February 24, 2025February 24, 2025

By Ronald S. Coddington, with images from the Mark Jones Collection On an April day in 1864, in a field near Alexandria, Va., thousands of soldiers and civilians gathered to witness a military

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