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

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Sgt. Major (USA), Edward Payson Mathewson (1837 - 1892)
Civil War Veteran Affiliation: Confederacy and Union (forced in Confederate service 1861) Enlisted: Nov. 11,1861 (Union) Rank: Sgt. Major Co.: Regt.: 11th Ct. Branch: Infantry Discharged:...
Chaplain Henry Clay Trumbull, USA (1830 - 1903)
Henry Clay Trumbull was an American clergyman and author. He became a world famous editor, author, and pioneer of the Sunday School Movement. Henry Clay Trumbull was born on June 8, 1830, at Stoningt...
Pvt. George Albert Avery (USA) (1840 - 1892)
No Children. THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. p. 641, Vol. II, p. 1007 Civil War Service Inscription: Company A, 25...
Maj. General Alfred Howe Terry (1827 - 1890)
Alfred Howe Terry (November 10, 1827 – December 16, 1890) was a Union general in the American Civil War and the military commander of the Dakota Territory from 1866 to 1869 and again from 1872 to 188...
From the Office of the State Historian of Connecticut: https://todayincthistory.com/2019/04/03/april-3-the-sewing-machine-patent-wars/

Pvt. Elias Howe, Jr., USA (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...