Letters from Beaty to his family recounting his experience as a Union soldier in the 149th Regiment of the Pennsylvania infantry, and letters to his family from his comrades recounting the circumstances of his death and burial.
Born in 1958 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Will Mentor would go onto to receive his B.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design in 1981. Will is now a resident of Iowa where his piece "Bionic Farm" was shown at the Karolyn Sherwood Gallery in Des…
Rear Admiral Dahlgren was made Commander of the Washington Navy Yard in 1862 and chief of the Bureau of Ordnance in 1863; in July 1863 he was given command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron where the massive Dahlgren guns he designed were…
