In addition to being the day taxes are due this year, April17th also has tremendous historical significance. The last Union officer killed in action in the civil war was none other than Lieutenant Edward L. Stevens, who was killed in a skirmish at Boykin’s Mills, near Sumter, South Carolina on April 17th 1865. Stevens was a New England patriot, a member of the 54th Massachusetts volunteers. I humbly place his name here so that he may never be forgotten. To honor the memory of this oft-forgotten hero, the Lackawanna Review staff got together this weekend for a good, old fashioned Civil War Re-enactment.
