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Article: Author explores Santa Ana's Civil War legacy.(The Orange County Register)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- April 18, 2002
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SANTA ANA, Calif. _ The Stars and Bars were missing. That's what first caught Gordon Bricken's eye.
He'd seen a dozen Confederate flags flying at the Santa Ana Cemetery on Memorial Day in 1997. Then they were gone. He stopped to ask why.
That's when he first learned of the 600 Civil War soldiers buried in Santa Ana _ 524 Union men and 76 Confederates. One thing led to another. He ended up poring over files in the Santa Ana Library, e-mailing history buffs, calling museums, walking the cemeteries and cataloguing the dead.
Today, Bricken is an authority on those old soldiers and their influence on Orange County, long after Lee's surrender to ...