"Walter D. Hodgson of Mercer County, Ill., joined the 124th Illinois Infantry at the age of 15 and went off to fight to preserve the Union during the Civil War.
About 100 years later, two of his great-grandsons, Don Finch of Bettendorf and his brother, Harry, packed up their metal detectors and set off to retrace their ancestor's steps through American history.
Don Finch estimates he has visited 80 percent of the Civil War battlefields.
'I got following everybody else's great-grandfather, too,' he said with a laugh."
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