SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) - In a story April 11 about the Civil War exhibit at Union College, The Associated Press misspelled the name of an alumnus noted in the project. He was Charles Pease, not Charles Peace.
A corrected version of the story is below:
NY college opens exhibit on school’s Civil War connections
Upstate NY college opens exhibit on school’s Civil War connections
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) - An upstate New York college has opened an exhibit on the school’s extensive connections to many of the most significant events and personalities of the Civil War.
The exhibit - “Profound and Poignant: Union College Connections to the Civil War Era” - is on display at the school’s campus in Schenectady.
It focuses on several of the nearly 600 Union graduates who served during the war, including William Seward, Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of state. Another Union alum, Maj. Henry Rathbone of Albany, was in Lincoln’s box at Ford Theater when the president was shot 150 years ago this Tuesday.
Union grad Daniel Butterfield composed the bugle call “Taps” during the war, while fellow alum Charles Pease played a role in Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox 150 years ago.
The exhibit runs through the end of 2015.
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