Michael McCarty wanted to clear the record. In a letter he wrote from coal mines of Wilkes-Barre Township, Pennsylvania on May 23, 1861, he sought to clarify the news that Luzerne County residents were hearing from their Civil War soldiers at the front lines and in the camps of the United States Army. The Empire Colliery in the years after the Civil War McCarty called himself “a lover of truth” and he sought to share a letter he had received fro…
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