The Union Mills Homestead, the ancestral home of the prominent Shriver family, is a microcosm of American history. Two families bound by blood but divided by the Civil War, experienced the chaotic days surrounding the Battle of Gettysburg in very different ways. Union and Confederate Armies, supply wagons, stragglers, and wounded soldiers streamed by their homes in the thousands. Acts of kindness and threats of violence were punctuated by the sound of distant cannon. All the while, an enslaved family weathered the storm in the year before emancipation.

A summa cum laude graduate of Catholic University of America with a major in history and minor in anthropology with a focus in archaeology, Kyle Dalton has more than twenty years of experience in public history. Formerly of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Kyle is the executive director of the Union Mills Homestead, a museum of rural American life in Carroll County, Maryland.

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