The Civil War Editor

As much as any individual from the American Civil War period of Old Cambridge history, RK Crocker urged, begged and finally prodded locals to answer Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers. At the time of "the War Between the States", he was editing a weekly newspaper in southern Washington County, Upstate NY. He came to believe ardently in the purposes of he war, and used his newspaper to promote the Yankee efforts. It wasn't always nice or pretty, but he got the columns and the ranks filled.