The Town Census as Primary Source
Students can work in pairs or small groups and learn to work with a variety of sources while pursuing more information about their soldier. A fine, and rich window into history is a town census which can be found on ancestry.com. For more information take a look at Lesson 4: Soldiers & their families: Using the U.S. 1860 Census.
Information about Allen P Gilson and his family can be found six lines from the bottom of this 1850 Windsor Vermont Census.
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