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  • ElusiveFreedom
    • Why We Fight
    • Welcome to Elusive Freedom!
    • About the Author
    • Contact
    • Immigration in the 1800’s
    • Slave Trade in the 1800’s
      • The Battle for Emancipation
    • Benjamin & Leo
      • Kentucky in Chaos
      • Freedom Fighters
        • Secret Enlistment Across the Ohio River
        • Camp Clay (Ohio)
        • Camp Dennison
      • Their Units
        • 2nd KY Volunteer Infantry
        • Corporal Benjamin Henderman 2nd KY INF
        • 4th U.S. Light Artillery
        • 39th KY (Mounted) Infantry
  • History and Perspective
    • German Immigrants
    • “Native America” in the 1800’s
  • Into the Storm
    • West Virginia Campaigns
    • Battle of Gauley Bridge
    • Battle of Shiloh (TN)
      • Advance to Corinth (MS)
    • Louisville – Nashville
      • Pursuit of Bragg
      • Battle of Perryville
      • Duty at Wildcat Creek
      • Fort Negley (Nashville)
      • Tullahoma Campaign
    • Battle of Stones River
    • Chattanooga – Chickamauga
      • Battle of Chickamauga (GA)
      • Duty at Bridgeport (AL)
  • Feds, Fugitives, and Family
    • Leo Becomes an Outlaw
      • On the Run
      • Captured and Tried
      • 39th KY Infantry – Redeployed
    • The Road Home
    • Life After the War
      • Reconstruction was BS
      • The Juneteenth Façade

Elusive Freedom

The Epic Journey of Benjamin and Leo. Two Young German Immigrants Who Fought for the Union and Survived the Bloodiest Battles of the American Civil War.

Author: davidHENDERMAN

The Journey Begins

Posted on March 4, 2019April 9, 2019 by davidHENDERMAN

Thanks for joining me! This has been a great journey over the last thirteen years and it's not finished yet! A saga unfolds around the lives of two young German boys who were growing up in a hostile country - yet, they chose to fight for Freedom and for what they believed. I'm honored to … Continue reading The Journey Begins →

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