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John Morris John Morris was Chaplain of the 22nd Connecticut Volunteer Regiment from May 1, 1862 until September of 1863. He was at the battle of Antietam and when the Regiment was in danger of being overwhelmed, he picked up a rifle and ammunition to protect himself. Morris …
Name Unit Adams, Augustus Connecticut 10th Volunteer Regiment Adams, Ebenezer Connecticut 22nd Volunteer Regiment Adams, Edward Connecticut 27th Volunteer Regiment Adams, George Connecticut 22nd Volunteer Regiment Adams, Sherman Other Regiments Adams, Stoddard Connecticut 22nd Volunteer Regiment Aldrich, Edward Connecticut 7th Volunteer Regiment Archy, William Connecticut 29th Volunteer Regiment Baker, Charles …
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The two locations that created the most despair for Wethersfield during the Civil War were Antietam and Andersonville. Men from here participated in most of the major battles in the East and many in the West, but the death and misery of these two locations was great. Four Connecticut regiments …
The American Civil War is generally accepted as the most traumatic event in this nation’s history. It radically changed the way we were governed, it delivered four million people from slavery and it sustained casualties of ? million dead from battle and disease. Wethersfield sent 193 men to this war …
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Irish Immigrants in Wethersfield from 1860 to 1900 by Julia Pizzoferrato Wethersfield’s proximity to Connecticut’s bustling capitol, Hartford, made the town a convenient landing place for many Irish immigrants from 1860 to 1900. Both Hartford and Wethersfield offered employment opportunities to new residents either as domestic servants, farm laborers, or …
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Slavery and Wethersfield by Martha Smart The past is never dead. It is not even past. William Faulkner Sugar and Slavery The popular book, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, written by Elizabeth George Speare in 1957, tells the story of Kit Tyler, orphaned on Barbados, traveling to relatives in Wethersfield …
Wethersfield Historical Society curator, Kristina Oschmann, shares short profiles of six of the notable women from Wethersfield’s history featured in the Wethersfield Museum’s upcoming exhibit “Women of Wethersfield”. Scheduled to open in mid October 2020, the exhibit is being offered in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in …
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Taped last October (2019) during an indoor presentation of Wethersfield Historical Society’s Lantern Light Tours, Charles Floyd’s impassioned portrayal of Freeman Quash Gomer offers a brief glimpse into the trials, tribulations, and triumphs lived by people of color in eighteenth century Wethersfield. From this website’s own Articles from the Community …
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Burying Ground Timeline DATE BURYING GROUND HISTORY 1638-1638 Burying Ground was established by Town of Wethersfield on Hungry Hill. No burial lots were sold, burials were permitted wherever there was a vacancy. 1684 Nathaniel Bowman lost land to burying ground in land dispute. Burying ground expanded to 115.5 feet wide …
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African American history has long been neglected in both history books and museum programming. Due to this fact, Wethersfield Historical Society’s staff strove to incorporate a telling narrative of one of Connecticut’s Black Governors in the 2011 Lantern Light Tours. The following is a short narrative of London’s life and …