On this Date in History – Corporal Barton Mitchell finds Robert E Lee's Special Order 191! Did he save the Union??

Sometimes the course of human history is latered by the actions of men and women that are well-known to us, and then sometimes the person is someone who no one knows or little remembers. On September 13, 1862 Corporal Barton W. Mitchell,of the 27th Indiana Volunteers, part of the Union …

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