Swingle movie revives Civil War history
Thursday, August 19, 2004
When Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle was researching historical material for his 2002 novel "The Gold of Cape Girardeau," he discovered so much information about Cape Girardeau during the Civil War that he thought it would be a shame for it to go to waste.
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