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Tango01 | 22 Dec 2022 8:54 p.m. PST |
…been disabled "William Laird's grave sits in a copse of trees, down an unmarked dirt road in Berwick, overlooking hayfields he worked during the first half of the 19th century.
Laird's marble tombstone, once forgotten for generations, lays flat, alone and broken into two pieces. It rests on a bed of red pine spills, under two small American flags.
Not much is known about him for certain, other than the U.S. Army executed Laird for desertion at Fort Preble in South Portland in the summer of 1863…"
Main page link Armand
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Editor in Chief Bill | 22 Dec 2022 9:54 p.m. PST |
Interesting, but lots of speculation. |
GamesPoet | 23 Dec 2022 6:14 a.m. PST |
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Murvihill | 23 Dec 2022 7:08 a.m. PST |
The guy was apparently smart enough to shovel manure in Maine, but not smart enough to shovel manure for the army. |
Tango01 | 23 Dec 2022 3:02 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami… Armand
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Bill N | 23 Dec 2022 4:16 p.m. PST |
The legal standards for mental illness were not the same in the mid-1800s as they are today. |
Tango01 | 24 Dec 2022 2:45 p.m. PST |
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