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A Forgotten Man in a Forgotten War
Richard was born October 17, 1780, and almost didn’t make it to his thirty-third birthday. In its earliest drafts, Great Crossing opened with the …
1833 cholera outbreak took Julia on this day.
Finding out about Julia obsessed me, but I could discover very little. The web’s power to search information has grown exponentially since 2003, when …
Juneteenth
To see things as they really are: one of life’s most elusive challenges, whether in love or politics. It’s a recurring theme in Great Crossing as …
Finding the Forgotten Man, Richard Mentor Johnson
He was born October 17, 1780 in Beargrass, near Louisville, Kentucky, to a couple who inexplicably left a beautiful family farm in Montebelle, Virginia …