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…
Category: Veterans
New additions
Added a nice article from the July 8, 1884 Gettysburg Star and Sentinel regarding the dedication of the 17th CVI monument on Barlow’s Knoll. It is a nice compliment to the official publication put out by the veterans.
The 17th Connecticut at the 1907 Andersonville dedication
I recently came across the book published by the State of Connecticut to commemorate the dedication of the Connecticut monument at Andersonville, Georgia. The monument committee had originally planned on locating the monument on the grounds of the former prison…
In case you’re looking for something a little different…
Every now and then something comes up on eBay that is different and interesting. In this case, it’s a regimental badge that belonged to Lieutenant A.W. Peck. If you spend some time browsing the Warren history you’ll see the name…
Gettysburg 150th events
I have long included the link to the blog of the Gettysburg NMP, so I don’t usually rehash events going on at the park that are covered there. Of course, this is a big year for the park and there…
Can you identify this ribbon?
These photos were sent along by Bob Davis, with this note: “Tonight while searching a favorite thrift store I found a poster put out by the national tribune co for the Army of the Potomac. At the bottom it has…
The McDonough Post gavel
A little over 107 years ago, in August 1905, Edward M. Lees of Westport gave the gavel that had been used to call meetings to order at the McDonough G.A.R. Post in Westport to the members of the Buckingham Post…
The 1870 reunion photograph – anyone know where it is?
According to a reporter for the Danbury News writing about the 1870 reunion of the regiment’s veterans, at the close of the day a photograph was taken by “…one of the best photographers in Stamford.” The subject of the photograph…
Decoration Day – “With the tears a Land hath shed…”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (born Nov. 11, 1836, Portsmouth, N.H., died March 19, 1907) was a 19th century writer and editor who is known to some, at least, as the father of the American novel. His 1869 The Story of a Bad…
You just never know where you’ll find something…
I was looking over the website for the Bridgeport History Center the other day. BAck when I lived in the Park City I spent a lot of time at the Bridgeport Public Library and more specifically, at the Historical Collections…