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Abraham Lincoln's 1855 Senate Campaign Russell Mahan
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This is the story of Abraham Lincoln's first run for the U.S. Senate in 1855.
Disregarding Lincoln's Call to "care for him who shall have borne the battle." The Case of Corporal Bledsoe of the 22nd Kentucky Infantry. Russell Mahan
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David Calvin Bledsoe was a poor man who in the best of times never owned land and could barely support a family. When his nation called for volunteers he risked his own death to preserve the union of the United States. He returned home without a scar. No musket ball or shell fragment ever found him on the battlefield, but in the course of his military service his health was shattered. He afterward lived a ruined physical life and a disastrous financial one. He and his wife were dependent upon the charity of family and friends for their day to day sustenance. The Union veteran pension system - the physicians, politicians, and bureaucrats - did not know how to deal with Bledsoe, and those ...
The Kentucky Kidnappings and Death March: The Revolutionary War at Ruddell's Fort and Martin's Station Russell Mahan
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The Kentucky Kidnappings and Death March: The Revolutionary War at Ruddell's Fort and Martin's Station. In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, Kentucky was invaded by 200 British and Canadian soldiers and 800 Native American warriors. They surrounded and compelled to surrender two small American settlements called Ruddell’s Fort and Martin’s Station. The people there were simply farmers with families. At Ruddell’s Fort British Captain Henry Bird promised that settlers would be protected from the Indians and remain in the custody of the English. As soon as the gates opened in surrender, the Indians rushed in, killing some settlers and brutally seizing the rest as slaves, adoptees and p ...