An open question has been how our great grandfather Edward Sandford, who was born, raised, and enlisted in Maine, came to serve in the First Cavalry Regiment of the District of Columbia during the Civil War? I had presumed that it had something to do with his arriving late to the party, having been onContinue reading “The First Cavalry Regiment of the District of Columbia”
Monthly Archives: December 2021
December Commemorations
Died Thursday December 12, 1918 (103 years ago) in Brooklyn, New York. Eliza Marshall Wright, 2nd great grandmother Died Sunday December 15, 1912 (109 years ago) in Newburgh, New York. Dr. James Gordon, 2nd great grandfather Died Wednesday December 31, 1941 (80 years ago) in San Bernardino, California. Annie Calderwood Sandford, great grandmother
Bridging the Silences 