When Samuel Cormany left Franklin County in 1859, his country united. He returned to find it split in two and a decision to make that hundreds of thousands of other men had made and were making. With his family barely started, should he risk his life in a war between the states? Cormany returned to Franklin County in August 1862. Since he had been gone, he had gone to college, married, had a child and lived in Canada. His time away had changed his viewpoint of the world as well as his physical appearance. The first family he stopped in to see on his way home was his half-sister Lydia and her husband Henry Rebok who lived near Mechanicsburg. “Sister Lydia didn’t recognize me, nor did Henry – not knowing anything of our coming, and my being away since early Read more…