Civil War author to speak at Bloomfield Library: "Johnny comes marching home to Greene County" - IN

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Civil War author to speak at Bloomfield Library: "Johnny comes marching home to Greene County"
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Greene County Daily World
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BLOOMFIELD -- In June and July of 1864 Civil War soldiers from the Greene County company of the famed Fourteenth Indiana Regiment began returning home from the long and deadly war. D Company, under Colonel Elijah H.C. Cavins, was one of the most honored companies in one of the most famous of the Midwestern regiments in the East in the war.
Civil War author Nancy Baxter will speak at the Bloomfield Library on Thursday, June 19, 6:30-7:30 p.m. on "Johnny Comes Marching Home to Greene County and Southern Indiana." A new edition of her book The Dream Divided: Indiana in the Civil War a Novel has just been released.

The boys from Bloomfield and Linton and the countryside in Greene County had done an extraordinary thing as the last days of their three-year enlistment wore down in early June of 1864.

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This interested me because my Great, Great Grandfather, Joseph Warren Poole, was living in Beech Creek, Greene County, Indiana when he enlisted in Co. A, 97th Indiana Infantry. Beech Creek is near the thriving metropolis of Solsberry in northeast Greene County about halfway between Bloomfield and Bloomington.
 
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