Research Unveils Reality in Favorite Family Story ; Officer's Coat Linked to a Bloody Mouth Wounding

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In the mid-1960s, I was a boy in Oregon and my maternal grandmother ("Nana") used to regale me with fantastic stories. I would sit with rapt attention at her kitchen table for what seemed like hours as she painted vivid pictures with her words as she cooked on her wood-burning stove.

Among the lot, one particular story has stayed with me for all my years. Stories are just words. Anyone can weave a "tall tale." But this story was different - because she claimed to have physical proof to back up her lavish description of the events that happened 100 years previously.

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Research Unveils Reality in Favorite Family Story ; Officer's Coat Linked to a Bloody Mouth Wounding

She claimed that one of our distant relatives, James Brown, was a Union officer during the Civil War and that one morning, as Capt. Brown was shaving, he was being watched a long ways away - by a Rebel sniper. At the exact moment when Brown's jaw was fully open - his face covered in shaving cream and a straight razor in one hand - the sniper squeezed h...

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