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Day Soldiers by Brandon Hale5/26/2023 Moundsville town historian Gary Rider hadn’t either, but he found and emailed me genealogical research indicating that newspaper accounts exaggerated her age and number of children. I never heard her story while researching material for our movie. Her likeness hung in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, and the Ohio state gallery in Columbus. (14 for the Union, two for the Confederacy.) It also mentioned this fact: “She drank and smoked moderately for 90 years.”īrandon’s life story shows how early media legends were created, and illustrates in vivid detail the tough, painful lot of women in 19th century America.Ī search of newspaper archives shows that Brandon was a minor media sensation in the 1900s and 1910s. According to a story in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa Gazette, she died at 113, and had 23 children, including 16 boys who fought in the Civil War. Now a salute to Sarah Brandon, a Moundsville woman whose 1914 obituary described her as the “Mother of the Civil War”.
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