The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Diana L. Dretske - UA) Ed Bearss From missing persons to mass

From missing persons to mass and serial murder

and the role pictorial images played in establishing the document in public memory

showing the moral springs of Lincoln’s humor

and his rendezvous with destiny

The David Wills Building is perhaps best remembered for hosting President Abraham Lincoln in mid-November 1863 when he visited Gettysburg to dedicate the Soldiers National Cemetery by delivering his famous Gettysburg Address speech

The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Diana L. Dretske - UA) Ed Bearss From missing persons to massby Diana L. Dretske When curator Diana L. Dretske discovered that the five long gone Union soldiers in a treasured photograph in the Bess Bower Dunn Museum were not fully identified, it compelled her into a project of recovery and reinterpretation. Utilizing an impressive array of local and national archives, as well as private papers, the authors microhistorical approach records events that often go unnoticed, such as a farmer enlisting in the middle