About

Will Gorenfeld is a retired attorney in the Bay Area who writes about the antebellum Army out West for Wild West and other publications.

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The project

An ongoing excavation of rarely seen documents from the pre-Civil War Army, and the stories within.
Recent Comments
- Bill MacKinnon on Rare Stevenson Journal Paints An Enchanting City of Saints
- Will Gorenfeld on Rare Stevenson Journal Paints An Enchanting City of Saints
- Bill MacKinnon on Rare Stevenson Journal Paints An Enchanting City of Saints
About me

I write about the soldiers, operations and battles of the pre-Civil War Army out West. My work reconstructing forgotten history has appeared in Wild West, New Mexico Historical Review and Military Collector and Historian.
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