Quite literally years in the making, We Fought at Gettysburg by Carolyn Ivanoff not only fills a void in the published annals of the 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry but also helps to complete (at least in part) a journey begun…
Category: Biographies
Stories about the soldiers of the 17th
A wartime wedding (the Horace Judd story continued)
Just about the time this website received a major facelift in the summer of 2011, I had written a post about the wartime wedding of one Horace Q. Judd. That story is told in the post A Wartime Wedding in…
“Honest Mike” Cahill
One of the more interesting stories of the 17th Connecticut surrounds Elias Howe, Jr. – he of sewing machine fame, whose service in the regiment was told in this blog in July 2015 (Elias Howe, Jr. and the 17th). In…
An incomplete story – the late war recruits of the 17th Connecticut
One of the blogs that this one offers a link to is Emerging Civil War, which generally offers some interesting articles on a variety of topics. Earlier today I read a guest post by Nathan Marzoli, a historian at the U.S. Army Center…
Dismissed From Services: Lt. Hanford N. Hayes – Regimental Quartermaster
And the Court does therefore sentence Lt. H.N. Hayes, Quartermaster, 17th C.V.I. “At his own expense to make good the damage to the United States and to forfeit all his pay, and to be dismissed from service”
Elias Howe, Jr. and the 17th
A few months ago I received an email from Rob André Stevens with some material for the site related to Elias Howe, Jr. An excerpt of the email follows: “I also find it odd that your site doesn’t even show…
The Gilmore Medal and the 17th CVI
After spending a comfortable Sunday afternoon perusing the various auction sites for 17th CVI-related artifacts I came across a couple of letters written by Rufus Tilbe up for auction. Tilbe was a member of Company E, having enlisted at the…
The 17th Connecticut and the National Weather Service
What do the 17th Connecticut and the National Weather Service have in common? Henry Eugene Williams. Who? Henry Williams was an 18-year-old teacher living in Bethel, CT when he enlisted as H. Eugene Williams in Company C of the 17th…
Norwalk’s Douglass Fowler A Determined Civil War Commander
And in today’s edition of the Hartford Courant, celebrating 250 years in print, you’ll find this profile of the 17th Connecticut’s second Lieutenant Colonel, Douglass Fowler. Not only that, but the life and military career of Lt. Colonel Fowler (a Guilford native)…
Save the date!
On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 Carolyn Ivanoff (a long time contributor and friend to this site) will be presenting her program “One Family’s Civil War – the military career of Capt. Wilson French, CT 17th Volunteers, and his wife Martha Bouton…