Wounded at Gettysburg, Vilified for a Political Scandal
Life on the Civil War Reserach Trail
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William Wade Dudley, the respected lieutenant colonel of the Iron Brigade's 19th Indiana Infantry, suffered a combat-ending wound on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. A quarter-century later, during the heated presidential campaign of 1888, a private circular Dudley wrote leaked to the public, costing him his honor. Here's the story.
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