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Thursday, January 2, 2020

Uniontown Newspaper Profiles "Such Hard and Severe Service"

Here is a link to an article in the the Unontown Herald Standard, January 2, 2020, about my history of the 85th Pennsylvania regiment.

https://www.heraldstandard.com/entertainment/books/california-native-pens-book-about-the-civil-war-s-th/article_97ebb3fb-b216-5781-ab33-e35e00440c1b.html


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DAN CLENDANIEL, author of Such Hard and Severe Service: The 85th Pennsylvania in the Civil War, is a retired public school teacher from Prince William County, Va. He taught American history and American government in Virginia for 34 years. (Click on image for more on Dan.)

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MILITARY IMAGES MAGAZINE: The Odyssey of 85th Pennsylvania Lt. John Michener. (Click on image for my story.)

WASHINGTON (PA.) OBSERVER-REPORTER: 85th Pennsylvania soldier recalls William Sherman's march. (Click here for story.)

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