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Area historian to talk about new edition of Civil War book

Award-winning author Steve French will be signing the new paperback edition of his book, Phantoms of the South Fork: Captain McNeill and His Rangers on Saturday, March 11 from 1-3 p.m. at the Hedgesville Library.

Just released by Kent State University Press, the nonfiction book chronicles the Civil War exploits of the McNeill Rangers who roamed the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.

The Journal of Southern Historysays, “In nearly moment-by-moment detail, French presents the…