Bill Wilkinson, Historical Interpreter
Jun 25, 2019
3 minutes
BY LILI WRIGHT
Photograph by
TONY VALAINIS
THE CLOTHES are hot, the food stale, and the Confederate army may return for a second pummeling, but Bill Wilkinson keeps coming back to Conner Prairie to relive the same day, July 13, 1863.
His character is Ambrose “Mutt” Sallie, a farmer in Dupont, the only part of Indiana that saw military action in the Civil War, when Confederate soldiers looted the town for food, supplies,
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