Chinese-American Civil War Veteran’s unique story made into musical

  • Michael O’Leary came to Hot Springs to see where Edward Cohota had spent the last years of his life Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald Star
    Michael O’Leary came to Hot Springs to see where Edward Cohota had spent the last years of his life Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald Star

    HOT SPRINGS — Among the thousands of veterans housed over the decades at the Battle Mountain Sanitarium (now the VA Hospital), all with tales of service and heroism, few have their lives memorialized for posterity in a musical. But Edward Day Cohota, whose last years were spent at the Hot Springs VA a century ago, had such a unique life that his great-grandson was inspired to write a play which de…