Legacy – Volume 1, Issue 4 – Surgeon’s Civil War Adventures, Story of the 1834 Jail

by the Herkimer County Historical Society
Articles include: A Surgeon’s Civil War Adventures – the letters of Dr. Daniel M. Holt of Newport comprise a chilling catalogue of the horrors of that conflict; The Story of our Handsome Jailhouse – the story of the old Herkimer County Jail, built in 1834; A Bell for the Mohawks – And How It Was Lost – a strange tale of the extraordinary efforts the Indians made to retrieve their prize possession; Ilion in 1830 – interesting local history of days long ago in the home of Remington Arms.