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Subject:
New exhibit details New York state's role in Civil War
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Robert Sullivan <[log in to unmask]>
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A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 6 Jul 2013 21:06:08 -0400
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — In 1863, the first items from Civil War
battlefields where New Yorkers were fighting and dying started to
arrive at the newly created Bureau of Military Statistics in Albany.
Among them were a uniform button and the bullet that struck it at the
Battle of Cedar Mountain in Virginia.

Thousands of artifacts and 150 years later, more than 100 of those
relics — including the damaged button and bullet — are being displayed
in a new exhibit at the New York State Military Museum as part of the
Empire State's commemoration of the war's sesquicentennial.

<http://online.wsj.com/article/AP99a83729717847029f550653a75fd059.html>

-- 
Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library

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