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Written by County Historian John Conway

Lee surrenders army to Grant April 9, 1865 http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Appomattox, Virginia ...

Jefferson Davis is captured Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was captured when the Union Army caught up to him on May 10, 1865, in Irwinville, Georgia. He would spend 2 years in prison ...

... Army in America, effectively establishing the start of the U.S. Navy. http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Philadelphia, PA ...

Birth of the U.S. Army On June 14, 1775, the Contintental Congress resolved to form a committee â€ Philadelphia, PA ...

... the Wurtsboro airport there can still be seen the remains of the old lead mine. Some of the lead mined there was used to make the bullets used by the northern army during the civil war. During the early ...

... Army saw Tyler offspring in its service. Nathaniel was a drummer and was taken prisoner at the Battle of St. Johns. Bezaleel Tyler, a Captain in the Revolutionary Army, commanded the Mamakating Scouts ...

... n affectionately by his son and our member Matt Burns was 93 years old and was married to the love of his life Pat for 66 years. Bill was a WW II veteran of the Army Air Corps and a member of the Americ ...

... and serve in the army, but he was born in South Fallsburg and never called anyplace else home. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Harold entered the world on September 20, 1923, in a second-floor apartment ...

... llion-dollar trust fund, a University of Pennsylvania degree and a lieutenant's commission in the Army. He had seen exactly one rock concert, by the Beach Boys. Robert's slightly hipper friend, Joel Ro ...

... into the Army Air Force. With recent development by the armed forces of using radio detection in tracking enemy ships and aircraft, Bill was sent to the University of Wisconsin to receive training in the ...

... latter capacity Tillotson joined the Federal Army during the Great Rebellion, contracted yellow fever and died. In a letter written to his brother, Howard Tillotson, by his commanding officer, tellin ...

... the Industrial School of the Arts in the City where he learned the many aspects of photography. During WWII he enlisted in the army and was awarded the Purple Heart for a wound received during the Battle ...

... gular army where somewhat illogically his career included both service as a bugler and as a dental technician. After the war he attended St. Lawrence University where he majored in Business Administrati ...

... in 1945. He joined the army almost on the day that Japan surrendered and was sent overseas to serve in the Army of Occupation in Germany. Though Del recalls that at the time he did not know one drink from ...

... at age 12, he was raised by foster parents on a farm in nearby Hurleyville. He joined the Army in 1943, one week after graduating from high school. Although he completed Officer Candidate School, at only ...

... City. He had been born in Russia, but his father Harry decided to move the family to America to escape the poverty and prejudice of Russia and the threat of having his sons drafted into the Czarist army. ...

... and graduated from Kingston City High School. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps and during the World War II served in the European Theater of War in England and Scotland with the 710th Bomb Squadron. Bill ...

... army at age seventeen and served in the Korean Occupation Army 1946-1947. Upon discharge, he made what he recalls as a fateful decision. He was proud of his staff sergeant’s stripes and signed up in the ...

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