A Look Back: W.W. Day, Civil War Soldier, Steele County

Barry Adams with the Steele County Historical Society takes us to Lemond Cemetery southwest of Owatonna, where Civil War solider William Worthy Day is buried. Adams tells us of Day’s captivity in the South’s notorious Andersonville Prison during the Civil War.

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