The Civil War Soldiers of Branford Connecticut: Including North Branford and Northford

CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS OF BRANFORD AND NORTH BRANFORD ARE BROUGHT TO LIFE THROUGH PERSONAL ACCOUNTS LETTERS ILLUSTRATIONS AND PHOTOGRAPHS. In this book Branford Connecticuts Town Historian Jane Bouley has compiled the military service records and biographical histories of nearly 450 soldiers using pension records original letters diaries regimental histories cemetery records family genealogies newspapers and other resources. This is the first comprehensive history of Civil War soldiers from Branford North Branford and the village of Northford. Inside you will learn about Branford during the war enlistments bounties prisons and hospitals as well as how to find Civil War pension records yourself; read a detailed chronology of the Twenty-seventh Fifteenth and Tenth Connecticut Volunteer Regiments with summaries of most other Connecticut regiments; meet the soldiers themselves through military and biographical data including pensions and other original documents that detail military service physical description residence occupation family information and first-person accounts during and after the war; discover more than 400 photographs and illustrations of the soldiers gravestones battles military scenes maps and monuments; and explore the extensive Appendix which includes a Civil War timeline list of soldiers by Regiment glossary draft list bibliography and a name and place Index.