Obama decendent of Civil War vet.

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Sunday October 26, 2008 · 12:37 PM PDT

2008/10/26 · 12:37

This article in the Everett (Washington State) Herald shows that Obama is the great-great-great grandson of a Civil War solder who served with Company A in the 145th Ohio National Guard infantry near the end of the war. It was a 100-day regiment formed to protect Washington, D.C., during the major campaigns that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant led into Virginia in the spring of 1864,

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