Back to the Past: No Jail? Auction the Prisoner

  • By SCOTT McARTHUR Polk County Historical Society
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So, you are a county commissioner in Polk County. It is 1852. There has been a big trial, the expenses of which just about broke the county.

Back to the past:Phil Sheridan -- Pioneer Polk Agriculturalist

  • SCOTT McARTHUR Polk County Historical Society
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Philip H. Sheridan is known as a military hero of the Civil War. He became a three-star general, chief of staff of the United States Army, and the leader of the Union troops that won crushing victories over the forces of the Confederacy on Sherman’s march to the sea.