Posts by Thomas Mauser
Grenville M. Dodge – Union Army General and Spymaster
Among those Union Army generals who served and fought during the American Civil War, the name of Grenville Mellen Dodge is not well-known. In comparison to the wartime achievements of, among others, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Philip Sheridan, General Grenville Dodge’s accomplishments were of a more modest nature. Nevertheless, he made his…
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In the small community of Long Sault, situated in the township of South Stormont along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in eastern Ontario, Canada, stands an obelisk that honors the more than 40,000 Canadians who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the American Civil War (1861 – 1865). Canada –…
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