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Month: January 2020

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Fort Slemmer and the Angry Florist

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on January 24, 2020October 2, 2025

When the US Army built a ring of earthen forts around the city at the start of the Civil War, it upended the lives of many landowners. Florist Henry Douglass was one of them.

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