(Encyclopedia) Monitor and Merrimack, two American warships that fought the first engagement between ironclad ships. When, at the beginning of the Civil War, the Union forces abandoned the Norfolk…
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LESHER, John Vandling, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born on a farm on Blue Hill, Union Township, Union County, Pa., July 27, 1866; attended the rural schools in his native county and…
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