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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 5 through Saturday, december twelfth. The exhibit will be free
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  and open to the public during regular museum hours, 2-6.30 p.m. Thursdays,
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  11 a.m. To 3 p.m. Fridays, 9 a.m. To 2 p.m. Saturdays
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  and Sundays, and from 4 to 9 p.m. Mondays. The museum is
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  closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. This year's special exhibit will kick off with
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  an Aswego Area Chamber of Commerce members preview coffee on Wednesday morning,
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  November 3rd. Among the stories to be included in this year's exhibit
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  will be of Civil War sailor Orville Beebe, who served aboard the
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  USS Moose, a civilian riverboat turned into an ironclad warship for the
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  Brown Water Navy in 1863, according to a news release from the
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  museum. The moose was best known for its action attacking Confederate General.
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  John Hunt Morgan's Raiders, who were attempting to cross the Ohio River
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  back into Kentucky from Ohio in July 1863, according to the release.
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  Cannon fire from the moose helped stop Morgan's raiders from escaping by
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  recrossing the river on july nineteenth and led to the capture of
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  most of the rebel force, the museum said. The exhibit also will
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  feature a wide variety of uniforms, correspondence, and other documents, photos and
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  artifacts related to local veterans who served in conflicts throughout the 250-year
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  history of the US, according to the release. The Little White School
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  Museum is located at 72 Polk Street, just two blocks from Oswego's
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  historic downtown business district. For more information, call the museum at 630-554-2999
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  or email museum coordinator Joe Nos at JNos at oswegolandpd.org.