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- Jan 7, 2013
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- Long Island, NY
If you have studied the lives of Civil War vets, you know about the Left-Handed penmanship contests for right-handed amputees. These contests rewarded those Union veterans who had learned to write with thier non-dominant hand. The Library of Congress has put together a page looking at these contests.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/wm-oland-bourne-papers/about-this-collection/
https://www.loc.gov/collections/wm-oland-bourne-papers/about-this-collection/