On November 28, 1862 Robert Gould Shaw sat down in his tent near Sharpsburg, Maryland to share a few words about his Thanksgiving celebration with his family back home.
Yesterday was Thanksgiving, and we managed to have a very pleasant day. There would have been no drawback, if we hadn’t missed from the table so many faces which were there last year at t…
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