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Perryville Battlefield: Kentucky’s Bloodiest Day — Update: October 12, 2026 Almost a 164 years after this horrific battle, I step back in time. Same season, same drought and same weather. Perryville Battle Field’s erie stillness and quiet day brought many emotions and thoughts to my mind as we wondered through the valleys and rolling hills. To say the least it … Read More
Coming Home to Paw PawA family visit, a festival, and the names that keep coming back Some towns you pass through. Paw Paw is the kind you carry. This past weekend we stood in Wyoming Cemetery under Illinois sky and then walked into the annual Pawpaw Festival like we had been expected. We were. The Prentices who still live in … Read More
Marco Rubio explains this perfectly:
In the autumn of 1861, farm boys and clerks across northern Illinois answered a call that would define their generation. President Abraham Lincoln, after the fall of Fort Sumter, had asked the loyal states for volunteers to preserve the Union. Illinois responded with overwhelming force. Young men like John Newton Prentice—born May 8, 1842, and just nineteen when he enlisted … Read More
