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    "The ground seemed to be sacred." - The death of Major Frank Biddle Ward
    Richard Condon
    • Jan 2, 2020
    • 17 min

    "The ground seemed to be sacred." - The death of Major Frank Biddle Ward

    The opening week of January 1863 was a stretch of dread and uncertainty for the Ward family of Allegheny City. With reports of recent...
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    Allegheny Arsenal's Christmas Debacle of 1860
    Richard Condon
    • Dec 25, 2019
    • 4 min

    Allegheny Arsenal's Christmas Debacle of 1860

    As the citizens of Pittsburgh awoke on a cold Christmas morning in 1860, they found themselves in the midst of a foreshadowing of events...
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    To the Beat of His Own Drum - The 1913 Journey of Peter Guibert
    Richard Condon
    • Nov 16, 2019
    • 4 min

    To the Beat of His Own Drum - The 1913 Journey of Peter Guibert

    As the United States transitioned into the 20th century, the memory of its own Civil War became more and more distant with the thinning...
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