You can be a member online any time or by signing up at the table in the hallway today. So let me remind you of how the festival works. Were going to have an author speak now for 30 minutes followed by a 10 minute question answer period, and then i will walk the author out to the front of the visitor . E to sign bookses an you can purchase her book in new deal bookstore and then meet the author and discuss the book even more. So our next author today is sandra bultins a veteran teacher and historian. For two decades she lived abroad for a soldier in the United States army serving in germany and leader as a teacher in International Schools in europe, africa, and asia. She earned her doctorate in history at ohio state university. Wherer her focus on gender africanamerican history, gender and africanamerican history led to publication of her book glory in the spirit. How four black women took on army during world war ii doctor is act uv in National Grassroots movement move to amend and in
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LT HOWARD CUSHING
There were many brave officers in the Frontier Army during the darkest days of the Apache campaigns in the late 1860s and early 1870s but none braver than Lieutenant Howard Cushing. He was a member of one of America’s most famous family of war heroes that included brothers, Milton Jr., Alonzo and John Cushing.
Their father, Dr. Milton Cushing Sr. received his medical degree and settled in Zanesville, Ohio where he married his first wife Abigail. They had four children. She died in 1833. Three years later he married Mary Smith and they would have five children, Milton Jr., Howard, Alonzo, John and Mary. He died of tuberculosis in 1847 leaving her penniless and nine children to raise. Abigail’s children were nearly grown. Eventually Milton Jr. and Howard would take jobs to help support the family. When war came in 1861, all of Mary’s four boys joined the Union cause. Mary would outlive all her four sons.