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Lincoln’s Massachusetts “Bobbin Boy” or General “Commissary Banks”

Lincoln’s Massachusetts “Bobbin Boy,” was the President’s  first appointment as a Brigadier General of Volunteers, eventually earning the nickname,”Commissary Banks.” One of Lincoln’s many trials at the beginning of the Civil War, was the lack of trained soldiers to initially protect the nation’s Capitol. … Continue reading

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