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Oct 05, 2022
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The following is an article by author BeardsOverFredericksburg from the January 1865 issue of Duffel Blog's Civil War-era predecessor, The Knapsack Gazette.

TROY, N.Y. — Pvt. Seamus Achilles O’Connell may have only been in the Union Army for a month, but he is already proving himself as a soldier and infantryman.

O’Connell, the son of Irish immigrants, is…

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