William Parnell – A Forgotten Hero
If the stories are true, William Parnell survived the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava unscathed, only to fall, gravely wounded, in the farms fields east of Upperville, on June 21, 1863. William Russell Parnell was born in Dublin, Ireland, reportedly, on August 13, 1836. An August 1863 account in the Albany Evening Journal…