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The state Senate paused briefly this week to recognize a little-known New Mexico native whose bushwhacking skills helped pull a Union victory from the jaws of defeat 151 years ago at the Battle of Glorieta Pass.

The certificate of recognition says Manuel Antonio Cháves was “affectionately known to the people of New Mexico as El Leoncito de Sudoeste, or The Little Lion of the Southwest, befitting an authentic Spanish-American hero.”

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John H. Varney was a man that history tends to pass over in its quest for war
heroes, leaders, and compelling stories. He was never given any medals, was not
a high-ranking officer, and his name was so common he was not even the only John Varney from Milton in the Union army. He served as a commissary officer and had the responsibility of ensuring the soldiers were supplied with rations, not exactly a position for glory and honor.

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A Washington, D.C.-area collector and his family have donated more than 1,000 Civil War photographs to the Library of Congress. But you won’t find the men in these photos in history books — they’re enlisted soldiers, and most of them are unidentified.

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The Woodman Institute Museum this year commemorates Dover area citizens who served 150 years ago in what became our nation’s bloodiest war.

We often think of the Civil War as being fought a long way from here, forgetting that thousands of young New England men, from small cities like Dover and Rochester, joined local regiments and left home and family behind to fight in places they’d never heard of to preserve the federal union.

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