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Local Hero?

October 2025
1min read

Regarding “Presidents in the Woods” (April issue), the monument pictured on page 117 is theorized to be Phil Sheridan. My vote would be for one of Sheridan’s troublesome underlings, and a man with Ohio connections: George Armstrong Custer.

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