BELLVILLE — At a recent speaking engagement I did, the question came up, how do I find the details that bring to life the obscure historical stories I write about? The short answer is, “Drill, baby, drill!” The longer answer is that the kind of research I do to reconstruct mostly forgotten stories involves digging […] The post Research led author to a relative who fought for both sides in the Civil War, among other family anecdotes appeared firs…