‘We can only guess ...’: History, mysteries buried in Woodstock's 164-year-old Oakland Cemetery

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‘We can only guess …’: History, mysteries buried in Woodstock’s 164-year-old Oakland Cemetery

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By Morgen Neuhauser news@thewoodstockindependent.com Frank E. Hanaford, a Civil War soldier buried in Woodstock’s Oakland Cemetery, escaped the infamous Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Andersonville in 1864. Just a month after […]

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