Flower links Civil War, natural history and 'the blood of heroes'
Monday, November 24, 2014 - 16:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
On August 14, 1864, in a Union Army camp in Georgia, a captain from Wisconsin plucked a plant, pressed it onto a sheet of paper, wrote a letter describing the plant as "certainly the most interesting specimen I ever saw," and sent it with the plant to a scientist he called "Friend" in Wisconsin.