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Snapshot: Replica Civil War Cannon Fired at Jonas Salk

Civil War experts visited the Bolingbrook school Thursday.

Civil War expert Rob Hauff explains the use of cannons by the Union Army during a Civil War program at Salk Elementary School in Bolingbrook.

Salk fourth-graders also heard from an expert on the Union infantry, a Union spy, a photographer and a medical expert as part of their social studies unit on the Civil War.

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