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Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire was born on October 11, 1835, in Winchester, Virginia. One of seven children, McGuire’s family was a prominent medical...

Lieutenant Charles A. Fuller served in the 61st New York Infantry Regiment. On July 2, 1863, while fighting in The Wheatfield during the Battle of...

Isaac Israel Hayes was born on March 5, 1832, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. As a young man, Hayes attended the Westtown School, a Quaker...

Dr. James Brown McCaw was born on July 12, 1823, in Richmond, Virginia. Born into a long line of doctors, McCaw continued in his father’s and...

Tillie Pierce lived in Gettysburg when the Battle of Gettysburg occurred in July 1863. She was fifteen at the time.

The following are excerpts from Walt Whitman’s Complete Prose Works.