Local historian Dione Longley and Civil War collector Buck Zaidel will provide information on researching Civil War soldiers.
Dione Longley was the Director of the Middlesex County Historical Society for 20 years. Buck Zaidel, a dentist in Cromwell, has been collecting Civil War photographs and artifacts for decades.
Together they are writing a book about Connecticut soldiers in the Civil War, which features the images and words of local soldiers and their families. The book will be published in 2012 by Wesleyan University Press.
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Participants will learn about local, state, federal, and online sources available to research the lives of soldiers and their military careers. This presentation will include examples of historical and genealogical documents that can reveal an ancestor’s past.
Participants are welcome to bring photographs, documents, - associated with a Civil War soldier for help with identification. Please do not bring firearms.
