Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, the Homestead Act, and the Massacre—and the Heartening Survival—of the Kochendorfers
by
Daniel C. Munson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
A gravestone inscription leads the author on a search through early Minnesota history, and then U.S. and Civil War history. He discovers that four siblings orphaned by the Dakota War commissioned that inscription in memory of their parents and younger sister, and that their many descendants now live...