The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Diana L. Dretske - UA) Ed Bearss Dana’s reporting and Guarneri’s lively

Dana’s reporting and Guarneri’s lively narrative provide fresh impressions of Lincoln

The David Wills Building is perhaps best remembered for hosting President Abraham Lincoln in mid-November 1863 when he visited Gettysburg to dedicate the Soldiers National Cemetery by delivering his famous Gettysburg Address speech

George Peck served with the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry from late 1863 to 1866

and his rendezvous with destiny

by Dwight Sturtevant Hughes  (Author)

The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Diana L. Dretske - UA) Ed Bearss Dana’s reporting and Guarneri’s livelyby Diana L. Dretske When curator Diana L. Dretske discovered that the five long gone Union soldiers in a treasured photograph in the Bess Bower Dunn Museum were not fully identified, it compelled her into a project of recovery and reinterpretation. Utilizing an impressive array of local and national archives, as well as private papers, the authors microhistorical approach records events that often go unnoticed, such as a farmer enlisting in the middle