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Connecticut in the US Civil War (USA) 1861-1865

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Pvt. Co. K 7th. CONN (USA), Henry William Hendrick (1840 - 1917)
Henry W. Hendrick served in the Union Army during the American Civil War as a private in Company K, 7th Regiment, Connecticut Infantry. He enlisted on September 12, 1861 and mustered out on August 1, 1...
Capt. Hartwell Cady (1833 - 1913)
Hartwell Cady served in the Union Army during the American Civil War in Company I, 11th Regiment, Connecticut Infantry. He enlisted on December 25, 1861 and was promoted to 1st Sergeant on July 20, 186...
Brevet Brig. Gen.(USA), Joseph Griswold Perkins (1838 - 1913)
General Joseph Griswold Perkins, a veteran of the War of the Rebellion, died early Monday morning at his residence in Old Lyme. Born in 1838, General Perkins was the son of Thomas Shaw Perkins of New L...
From the Office of the State Historian of Connecticut: https://todayincthistory.com/2019/04/03/april-3-the-sewing-machine-patent-wars/

Pvt. (USA), Elias Howe, Jr. (1819 - 1867)
Inventor of the sewing machine Descendant of John Howe, of Sudbury, who became a freeman of Massachusetts Bay Colony in May l640 and died at Marlboro in l680. Elias Howe went to school occasionally i...
Pvt.(USA), Oliver Dart, Jr. (1839 - 1879)
One of those iron demons fired from a mortar on high ground on the 14th Connecticut’s right burst among the prone soldiers in Company D. A 3- by 2-inch fragment smashed into the ground, firing sand...