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Lieutenant Benjamin Biggs and the 135th Ohio Infantry

Earl Nicodemus
September 16, 2018
By the spring of 1864, the tide of the Civil War favored the north. In March of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was appointed general-in-chief of the Union Army. Grant’s strategy was to keep the pressure on the Confeder...

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