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1st Lieut. John R. Rankin

14 October 2020

John R Rankin was a 19 years old Private at the battle of Antietam, and later wrote an excellent memoir about it. It’s now at the Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis. Here he is on a page from E.R. Brown’s The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion (1899).