Kelly: From a secret barrel, a family's forgotten Civil War history

... Diaries contain firsthand references to Abraham Lincoln, including the future president's March 1860 visit to Bridgeport, Conn. After his speech there, the Curtis brothers helped give Lincoln a torch-lit send-off at the Bridgeport railroad station. ...



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