The Civil War’s First Amputee
By Jan K. Herman By mid to late April 1861, Washington, D.C., was on edge. On April 14, Fort Sumter had just fallen to Confederate forces, plunging the nation into
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Wounded at Gettysburg, Vilified for a Political Scandal
In every battle he fought, William Wade Dudley “distinguished himself as a good soldier, which is the highest possible recommendation that can be given any man,” according to an 1881