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Article: CIVIL WAR SLEUTH SEARCHES FOR 'WHY' BEHIND BIG PICTURE.(NEWS)(Column)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- January 3, 1996
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Byline: Jack Hicks, columnist and political writer for The Kentucky Post.
Robert Collins Suhr can describe a Civil War battle in greater detail than most football fans could describe last night's big bowl game.
''It becomes kind of a detective story for me,'' Suhr said of the research that has led him to write a dozen magazine articles on the Civil War.
An Edgewood resident whose day job is as a tax examiner for the Internal Revenue Service, Suhr is by occupation a man who combs for details.
Likewise in his pursuit of Civil War history, one nugget of information whets his search for more. Suhr wants to know why things happened, what ...