Virginia’s Bloody Soil

Something for the weekend.  Tennessee Ernie Ford singing Virginia’s Bloody Soil, a moving post-war tribute to Captain Dennis Edwin Barnes, Company C, 93rd New York.  He raised the company and led it throughout the War, until he was killed in action at The Wilderness on May 6, 1864.  He was 26 or 27 at the time of his death.  Just one of the many fallen heroes we owe our United States to. (more…)

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