David Cleutz is the pen-name of David Clutz. A long-time resident of Binghamton, NY, Dave is a native Pennsylvanian. Born in Chambersburg, he grew up in Mercersburg , his family deeply rooted in Gettysburg and Hanover.    "For David Clutz, growing up in the Cumberland Valley was like living inside the pages of a history book.  His boyhood home in Mercersburg once belonged to the parents of Harriet Lane, James Buchanan's niece and White House hostess. Clutz's great-grandparents witnessed the fighting at Gettysburg from their front porches. As a boy, he and his brothers climbed the iron towers on the battlegrounds and played at Devil's Den.  It was only a matter of time before all the Civil War lore that had been percolating inside him bubbled to the surface and into a historical novel, War and Redemption: A Civil War Tale, which was published last year."  - Columnist Marlene Jensen, Chambersburg Public Opinion    Clutz, a veteran of the U.S. Army, holds B.S. and M.S. from Case Western Reserve University and M.B.A. from Binghamton University. Under his pen name, David Cleutz, he has written several articles about Binghamton’s Civil War history. War & Redemption is his first novel. "In Their Own Words" is the product of two years of research and transcription from microfilmed newspapers in Binghamton, Owego, and Ithaca, and visits to sites in Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas, following the march of the 137th New York. These letters form the core of primary sources for a history of Col. David Ireland and the 137th New York Volunteer Infantry regiment, which Cleutz is currently authoring. Comments and suggestions, especially from those with ancestral connections to the 137th New York are sincerely welcomed.    Clutz writes from a circa 1870 farmhouse overlooking the Susquehanna River in Binghamton, where he lives with his wife, Terry.    Contact the author by email at dcleutz@stny.rr.com  or by US Postal Service at  66 Vestal Ave., Binghamton, NY 13903