P-J photo by Christopher Blakeslee For Aiden Malloy, a Jamestown High School junior, joining the Grand Army of the Republic is more of a calling ... a student at Jamestown High School is pictured here ...

In A Republic in the Ranks Prof. Fry (U.S. Army Command & Staff College) examines how the evolution of a common political outlook in the Army of the Potomac a during the early part of the Civil War.