A Quiet Patriot: Part 3 of Thomas Favell’s Civil War letters

The American Civil War began 150 years ago. Our forest hike on Nov. 11 on veteran Thomas Favell’s post-war homestead here in Solon Springs reminds us of his new soldier’s life in autumn of 1861. Of the 1,743 men who joined the Wisconsin 8th Infantry Volunteers during those four brutal years of war, Thomas was one of 427 remaining to “muster out” at war’s end in 1865.

By: By Thomas Wayne King, Superior Telegram