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Veterans column: Capt. Levi Coman, of Newark, writes of battle at newly named Shiloh camp
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 5 months agoCapt. Levi Coman missed mailing his letter that he started on April 29, 1862, and decided to just...
Some Civil War Soldiers' Wounds Emitted an 'Angel's Glow'?
Snopes via Yahoo News· 8 months agoGetty Images According to Timothy B. Smith, a history lecturer at the University of Tennessee at...
How 'the Savior of Cincinnati' kept the city from having its darkest day
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 5 months agoWhat could have been Cincinnati’s darkest day did not turn out that way. During the Civil War,...
Veterans column: Newark's Coman shares on Gen. Halleck taking command after Shiloh
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIn February 1862, General Ulysses Grant gained notoriety for his victories, however his superior,...
Veterans column: 'No foreboding' after Shiloh, as Ohio 76th waits for army at Corinth
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 5 months agoBy the time Capt. Levi Coman mailed the letter he began on April 29, 1862, it included four days of...
Why this caregiver was allowed to follow her husband to battle
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 8 months agoJohn Wesley Powell and his wife, Emma, in Detroit in 1863. U.S. Army Major John Wesley Powell served...
Veterans column: After Shiloh, Capt. Levi Coman takes command due to ailing officers
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 7 months agoNewark Advocate veterans columnist Doug Stout, of the Licking County Library, shares Capt. Levi...
Veterans column: Levi Coman considers fellow officers friends, except Chaplain John McCarty
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe March 24, 1862 letter of Levi Coman letter to his wife Martha continues: “The weather today is...
Veterans column: Capt. Levi Coman's last letter home to Newark before his resignation
Gannett via AOL· 4 months agoOn May 24, 1862, Capt. Levi Coman wrote a letter from a hospital in Tennessee. It is the last in...
Veterans column: Capt. Levi Coman shares news of Gen. Samuel Sylvester Wells' resignation
Gannett via AOL· 6 months agoThe letter Levi Coman wrote April 25, 1862, reported on his health and the resignation of Samuel...