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05/28/2005 Southern Yankees Embrace Civil War History By KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press Writer 21 minutes ago ATLANTA - Eric Peterson is a rarity among Civil War buffs — he's a Yankee. Peterson lives just eight miles from the route his great-great grandfather took during the war through what is now suburban Atlanta, but his ancestor was a Union soldier from Wisconsin, not a gray-coated rebel. He formed a new Sons of Union Veterans camp in Georgia, and said his group is growing because of northerners moving South and taking a new interest. "It's far more immediate than it was in...

Sons of Union Veterans regroup By CAMERON McWHIRTER The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eric Peterson, a Wisconsin native who lives in Gwinnett County, and his son Max hope to start a Georgia chapter of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. A Civil War buff and northern transplant has a simple message for Georgians: The Yankees were the good guys. Eric Peterson, born and raised in Wisconsin, is launching an effort this month to revive a defunct Georgia "camp" of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. The Snellville resident wants the group to achieve what was once...

Eric Peterson, a Wisconsin native who lives in Gwinnett County, and his son Max hope to start a Georgia chapter of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. A Civil War buff and northern transplant has a simple message for Georgians: The Yankees were the good guys.Eric Peterson, born and raised in Wisconsin, is launching an effort this month to revive a defunct Georgia "camp" of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.The Snellville resident wants the group to achieve what was once unthinkable: rehabilitate the name of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Union general credited with...