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"Fire on Caroline
Street" by Don Troiani
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This
site has been developed by
Bob Dame . Special thanks are given to a special person, co-developer
Lynn Strakosch. This site is dedicated to Bob's great-great uncle,
Cpl. Anton Steffens, Company C , 20th Massachusetts, who gave his life in
service to his country at the
Battle of Fredericksburg on Dec. 11, 1862. |
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A Connection to “John Adams” on HBO
The wonderful HBO miniseries “John Adams” also features John Adam’s
son, John Quincy Adams, another giant in American history. If we think
these men and these events are far removed from our generation today,
here is interesting historical trivia showing otherwise, involving an
esteemed officer in the 20th Massachusetts.
In
the 1840s, a toddler of a prominent Boston family, enjoyed sitting in
the lap of John Quincy Adams, a family friend. This young boy was Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr. Holmes became an officer in the 20th
Massachusetts, and of course an American icon of the law. Still quite
lucid in his 90s, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., told his reminiscences of
John Quincy Adams, and his grandmother’s recollection of the Battle of
Bunker Hill, to an astonished President-elect Franklin Roosevelt in
1932. Not so long ago.
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