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Ramsey County History – Spring 1964: “‘. . . Conclude It My Duty to Enlist & Therefore Enlisted…:’ The Diary of a Civil War Soldier”

Hal E. McWethy

‘. . . Conclude It My Duty to Enlist & Therefore Enlisted…:’ The Diary of a Civil War Soldier Author: Hal E. McWethy Newell Burch joined the Union army in August of 1862 in Jamestown, New York. Slightly wounded at Chancellorsville and captured at Gettysburg, he spent…

Ramsey County History – Spring 1964: “St. Paul’s Municipal Forest and Its 50 Years of Growth”

John H. Allison Sr.

St. Paul’s Municipal Forest and Its 50 Years of Growth Author: John H. Allison Sr. In the spring of 1914, the University of Minnesota’s Department of Forestry and the Saint Paul Water Department undertook to create a pine and spruce forest near Lake Vadnais. The initiators of…