“To ignore the irreconcilable distinction between the cause of the North and that of the South is to degrade the war.”  --Pen Hallowell  

Who is Pen Hallowell? A power in Harvard athletics,” according to one of the earliest histories of American football, who enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 just after graduating. A hell of a rower and a swimmer. During the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, the 22-year-old swam across the Potomac River three times through bullet-pocked water to rescue trapped and wounded comrades.  read more about Pen Hallowell