This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
General Training day and Middletown military past
Readable fragments recount Middletown general training days from colonial and Civil War eras. Mentions Middletown Artillery Company at Goose Green with cannons, 6th Connecticut Regiment camps in 1853, Mansfeld Guards, and local drill grounds on Main Street. Notes self-armed volunteers, armory absence, and a farmer’s eight-mile walk payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midhelene
Johnnie
Middle Artillery Company
George M. Southmayd
John B. Southmayd
Goose Green
Main Street
Spring Street
6Th Regiment of
Connecticut
Middletown
Cromwell
Haddam
East Haddam
David Hall Lots
Portland
Og Boea
Mansfeld Guards
John N
Hall Lots
Mansfield Guards
Main
Center Streets
Lincoln
William
David Dickerson
Joseph W. Douglas
Isaac C. Gleason
Pascal Hubbard
Bluff Head
North Guilford
Wallingford