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Ramsey County History – Spring 1966: “A Pioneer Farmer and the Civil and Indian Wars”
Coates BullA Pioneer Farmer and the Civil and Indian Wars Excerpts from Coates Bull’s letter describing how his father was caught up in the US Dakota War of 1862 and an uncle’s service in the Civil War. PDF of Pioneer Farmers…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1964: “‘We Was Ordered Out on the Double-quick . . . They Skeedadeled:’ Sergeant Ramer’s Indian War”
Virginia Brainard Kunz“We Was Ordered Out on the Double-quick . . . They Skeedadeled:” Sergeant Ramer’s Indian War Author: Virginia Brainard Kunz James T. Ramer was a soldier, diarist, and letter-writer. He joined the Union army on August 15, 1862; on August 18, the US Dakota War broke out.
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…