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TOP  STORY                                                         Capt. Samuel Fletcher Cheney’s story
By Fred Brown, Special to the Courier
Lollie and Josh Haugh of the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry reenactment unit meet with Vice President Richard Cheney at the luncheon reception during the Presidential Inaugural in 2005. (Brad Quinlin photo)

CHICKAMAUGA, GA —Sam Fletcher Cheney, great-grandfather to U.S. Vice President Richard "Dick" Cheney, was a 34-year-old lieutenant when he enlisted with the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Sept. 19, 1861.

On that same day in September two years later, Sam Cheney found himself in one of the biggest campaigns of the Civil War. He was first a sergeant for a three-month tour and then made a lieutenant for agreeing to a three-year stretch.

And right then, Sept. 19, 1863, in a field shadowed by Tennessee and North Georgia mountains, in a place of   <<Full Story >>        

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