Civil war vet made a splash in sioux falls

November 10, 2010 | Posted by javal

In 1888, Melvin Grigsby of Sioux Falls wrote a memoir of his Civil War service called “Smoked Yank,” mainly to record the stories for his family.

A decade later, he was mustering troops to ride east in preparation for the Spanish-American War despite the fact that he was South Dakota attorney general at the time.

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