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  Oswego’s Little White School Museum honoring the community’s veterans with special exhibit
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  by Everlet. Oswego's Little White School Museum will honor The community's veterans
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  who served over almost 200 years at a special exhibit in November.
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  The museum will present Remembering Our Veterans, the paths they followed from
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  Thursday, November 5th through Saturdays December 12th. The exhibit will be free
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  and open to The public during regular museum hours 2-6:30 p.m. On
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  Thursdays, 11 a.m. To 3 p.m. On Fridays, 9 a.m. To 2
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  p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays, and from 4-9 p.m. On Mondays. The
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  museum is closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. This year's special exhibit will kick
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  off with an Oswego Area Chamber of Commerce members preview coffee on
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  Wednesday morning, November 3. Among the stories to be included in this
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  year's exhibit will be of Civil War sailor Orville Beebe, who served
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  aboard the USS Moose, a civilian riverboat turned into an ironclad warship
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  for the Brown Water Navy in 1863, according to a news release
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  from the museum. The moose was best known for its action attacking
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  Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raiders, who were attempting to cross the
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  Ohio River back into Kentucky from Ohio in july eighteen sixty three,
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  according to the release. Cannon fire from the moose helped stop Morgan's
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  raiders from escaping by recrossing the river on July 19th and led
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  to the capture of most of the rebel force, the museum said.
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  The exhibit also will feature a wide variety of uniforms, correspondence and
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  other documents, photos, and artifacts related to local veterans who served in
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  conflicts throughout the 250-year history of the US, according to the release.
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  The Little White School Museum is located at 72 Polk Street, just
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  two blocks from Os Wegos historic downtown business district. For more information,
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  call the museum at six three zero five four two nine nine
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  nine or email museum coordinator Joe Nos at j nos at oswegolnpd.org.