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Teenage Civil War Expert

  • October 1, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Cooper Wingert got hooked on Civil War history after a fifth-grade trip to Gettysburg, site of a key 1863 Union victory and the war’s bloodiest battle. By age 15, he had published three books on Civil War-era Harrisburg and won praise for his original research.

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