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The ill effects of sunstroke forced Appleton, a major at the time, to resign from the 54th in late 1864. (Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society)
The ill effects of sunstroke forced Appleton, a major at the time, to resign from the 54th in late 1864. (Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society)