Noted Civil War historian in Carbondale, Ill., dies at 75

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- John Y. Simon, one of the nation's foremost scholars on President Grant and the Civil War, died Tuesday, Southern Illinois University officials said. He was 75.

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