by Lisa Schauer
“To speak of the dead is to bring them back to life,” said historian Steve French, quoting the great Egyptian king Ramses II.
French was the featured speaker at a commemoration held on Veterans Day, Tuesday, November 11 at Greenway Cemetery.
He recounted the life of Brevet General Simon F. Barstow, a Civil War veteran buried in the cemetery.
Considered an “administrative genius,” Barstow was not a line officer. Although his title…
