Isn’t it odd that everyone says ‘Happy Memorial Day’ when it should, considering what it memorializes, be a rather somber occasion? Six of my great-great-grandfathers went to the Civil War from Adams County, Wisconsin. Four returned. Joseph Cleveland Edmonds died of sudden, unidentified illness during the war and Nicholas Elderkin died after being wounded at Vicksburg.
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