Civil War Memoirs

THE GOOD FIGHT THAT DIDN'T END  -  The letters, journals, and newspaper writings of Henry Perkins Goddard (1842–1916) 
of Norwich, Connecticut, provide much firsthand detail about the passions and principles of a divided nation during the Civil War and Reconstruction as witnessed by a scrupulous soldier and scribe eager to capture the bitter realities of his time. We welcome his great-grandson, Calvin Goddard Zon, who will be recounting these details of combat in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, travels across the war-torn South after the war, and encounters and friendships with well-known historical and literary figures of the era, including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, George McClellan, Ambrose Burnside, Joseph Hooker, George Armstrong Custer, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain.

Please join us at the general meeting of the Kensington Historical Society for this presentation.  Everyone welcome. Coffee at 7 p.m., presentation at 7:30 p.m.