Ed O’Neill Finds His Family in the Civil War

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Beloved comedian and sitcom actor Ed O’Neill digs into a murky history to find a civil war hero-medic on her mother’s behalf on PBS’s Finding Your Roots.

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I always wanted to know this I’d ask everybody but they didn’t know. It went went into the murky past and it was gone.”

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