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150 years ago in Middletown, Connecticut … Week of May 3, 1865
From The Constitution, Wednesday, May 3, 1865 (volume 28, number 1427) War News. Gen. Halleck, under date April 26, writes that Gens. Meade, Sheridan and Wright are acting under orders to pay no regard to any truce or orders of Gen.
150 years ago in Middletown, Connecticut … Week of April 26, 1865
From The Constitution, Wednesday, April 26, 1865 (volume 28, number 1426) War News. The rumors which have been circulating for some days about negotiations between Sherman and Johnston have at length taken definite shape. A courier from Gen. Sherman arrived at
Elizabeth Petry
Author of “At Home Inside: A Daughter’s Tribute to Ann Petry” & “Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family’s Letters,” in conversation with Jesse Nasta, Executive Director, Middlesex County Historical Society and Visiting Assistant Professor of African American History at