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History

HARRISON GOES IN: Local partisan papers battle during 1888 election

During that 1888 election, there were little more than 4,500 people living in Warren. But it had three newspapers. And this was an era where newspapers were blatantly partisan. So the Warren Mail was a Republican mouthpiece and the Warren Ledger was at least informally the paper for the ...

Veterans reflect decades \ later at reunion on commander killed at Antietam

Hugh Watson McNeil was killed in Sept. 1862 at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland. When the surviving members of the Bucktails met in Warren in 1918, McNeil, their colonel, remained a prominent figure in the minds of the men, nearly 60 years since he was killed. The regiment’s history, ...