Summary
By the end of the Civil War in April of 1865, many, many thousands of lives had changed irrevocably and America would never be the same. Many who thought they would live a very long time did not, and we are left with the detritus of human cruelty and senselessness.
Even today the great arc of history causes readers to live with ghosts of families who will never be; families who sent sons and fathers to war. The final analysis of huge, humanity-changing events is not for us to judge and is probably best left to historians, philosophers and poets. Locally we can tie up a few loose ends, but even these few words cannot impart the meaning of lives lived, and lost:See the full content of this document
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Heroes & Corpses
* Never letting up on what he considered the inadequacies of the Lincoln administration, Dubuque Herald editor Dennis Mahony's rhetoric grew louder and louder, until federal officials had had enough, feeling he'd crossed the line, stumbling into treasonous territory.
Sixteen months after the start of the war, Mahony was arrested, taken aboard a steamer called the ...See the full content of this document
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