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Archive: November 2019 (7 Posts)

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Inquiring Minds: Family Surprised to Discover Civil War Veteran’s Ordeal on LOC Blog

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

Peggy Lundeen Johnson is the great-great-granddaughter of Samuel J. Gibson. He fought for the Union during the Civil War and was incarcerated in the Confederate military prison in Andersonville, Georgia, in 1864. While there, he kept a daily log of his experience. Johnson was unaware of the diary until she encountered it on the Library’s …