Heading to Connecticut

2nd display case from right to left and flag numbers from right to left.

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The best picture of the 3rd and 4th cases from right to left was a combined picture. The pic of the lower signs in the 4th case came out blurry.

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A stand-alone vertical display case:

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Inside the state capitol is a monument called the Forlorn Soldier. It was located at another site for many years where it was vandalized and deteriorated due to exposure to the elements. It was moved to preserve what's left of it. Doesn't look like it can be restored. At this link is a description of it:

https://chs.org/finding_aides/ransom/044.htm


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Rotunda. Sure wish I coulda gone up there. :D The state Senate and House of Representatives(I believe they call it the General Assembly) Chambers were nice too. No pics. The doors were locked. :stomp:

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The next stop was Barry Square in Hartford. At that location is a monument to Gen. Griffin A. Stedman for whom Fort Stedman at Petersburg was named. He was a native of Hartford,Connecticut. He was the Colonel of the 11th CT Volunteer Infantry when he was mortally wounded at Petersburg but was promoted to General before he died. The monument is on a mound above street level.

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The next stop was Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford where Gen. Stedman is buried. It is an old,large,beautiful and well-kept cemetery. I drove through quite a bit of it looking for Gen. Stedman's grave. I knew what his monument looked like and I was real close to it when I finally stopped and asked a cemetery groundskeeper where it was. I would've driven the entire cemetery anyway even if I had known where his grave was/is. It is a magnificent cemetery.

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The final stop that Friday was the Weld Monument at Old North Cemetery in Hartford.

"WELD MONUMENT, Old North Cemetery, Hartford, is significant historically because of its relationship to black troops in the Union forces during the Civil War. After much controversy, the War Department on May 22, 1863, established the Bureau of Colored Troops which, among its other duties, commissioned officers, almost all white, to command the troops. The 41st Colored Infantry, Lewis Ledyard Weld's regiment, was organized in the fall of 1864, with men from Pennsylvania, and was mustered out December 10, 1865. Fourteen states raised volunteer units that eventually were transferred to U.S. status, as was the case with the 41st. Three states retained their state designations; Connecticut was one of the three. The number of enlisted men who served in U.S. Colored Troops was 178,975; 9,695 served in the navy.

Lewis Ledyard Weld was born in Hartford on May 13, 1833, to a distinguished New England family. A forebear was a member of the Harvard class of 1650. After graduating from Yale in 1854, Weld went west. He was Acting Governor of Colorado for four months in early 1862. When he returned to the East in 1863, Weld was appointed Captain in the 7th Regiment, U.S. Troops, transferring to the 41st in October 1864, at the time it was formed. Early in 1865 he caught a severe cold which did not yield to treatment, leading to his death January 10, 1865, at Point of Rocks on the Appomattox River. His body was returned to Hartford and the monument raised by "EARLY FRIENDS" as noted by the lettering in the base.

Charles Theodore Weld (1831-1863) was a brother of Lewis Ledyard Weld. Charles enlisted from Hartford on April 18, 1861, becoming a first lieutenant in the 17th U.S. Infantry when he was mustered in on May 14, 1861. He died, with the brevet rank of captain, from wounds received at the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, on May 14, 1863."

https://chs.org/finding_aides/ransom/050.htm
 
Old North Cemetery is not as well kept as Cedar Hill Cemetery. I was hungry and out of time for sightseeing or I would've walked and driven it more anyway. The Weld Monument was easy to find. In the second pic,the first tree on the left partially obscures the monument.

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This is a monument on the capitol grounds called Andersonville Boy. From what I understand,2 of them were commissioned by the Connecticut State Legislature in 1907 and one of them is at Andersonville:

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This Andersonville Boy statue is a generic-type tribute but there really is a monument to a real Andersonville boy in Plymouth, CT. His name is Dorence Atwater.
Born in Plymouth he lied about his age and enlisted in the 2nd NY Cavalry. He was captured at Hagerstown (1863), imprisoned and finally sent to a new camp in Georgia.
Atwater was the recording clerk for the dead at Andersonville. He wrote the names/places of all the dead and PRODUCED A SECOND SECRET COPY because he knew the list would be destroyed. Horace Greeley published the list in early, 1866. Because of Atwater (I think he was captured at 16 yrs old) most of the graves are marked at Andersonville.
The monument is a cannon, cannonballs and a plaque only.

If anybody else ever wants to visit CT's CW while travelling I recommend Sharon B. Smith's Connecticut's Civil War, A Guide for Travelers, 2010. The above info was taken from her book. She's a CWT member.
 
Spent the rest of Friday,all day Saturday and Sunday morning at a gathering of friends in New London,Connecticut. The
U. S. Coast Guard Academy was just down the street from where we were. Drove by it slowly a coupla times but didn't really have time to try to see more of it.
 
This Andersonville Boy statue is a generic-type tribute but there really is a monument to a real Andersonville boy in Plymouth, CT. His name is Dorence Atwater.
Born in Plymouth he lied about his age and enlisted in the 2nd NY Cavalry. He was captured at Hagerstown (1863), imprisoned and finally sent to a new camp in Georgia.
Atwater was the recording clerk for the dead at Andersonville. He wrote the names/places of all the dead and PRODUCED A SECOND SECRET COPY because he knew the list would be destroyed. Horace Greeley published the list in early, 1866. Because of Atwater (I think he was captured at 16 yrs old) most of the graves are marked at Andersonville.
The monument is a cannon, cannonballs and a plaque only.

If anybody else ever wants to visit CT's CW while travelling I recommend Sharon B. Smith's Connecticut's Civil War, A Guide for Travelers, 2010. The above info was taken from her book. She's a CWT member.
Good stuff. Thanks for the info and resource. My CW sightseeing time on this visit was quite limited and the source I found was helpful but I'm always open to more. I thought I might have time for a quick swing through Middletown but it didn't pan out. Quite possible that I could be back in Connecticut a few years from now,the Good Lord willing. Love your state. That was my first time there.
 
Lewis Ledyard Weld was born in Hartford on May 13, 1833, to a distinguished New England family. A forebear was a member of the Harvard class of 1650.

The forebear's name was Edmund Weld and the family is still around New England. Edmund's descendant, William, was governor of Massachusetts in the 1990s.

BTW, I was in the Hartford area about five years ago under chaotic circumstances and didn't have any time to play tourist, but I was flabbergasted to find a substantial, working tobacco farm about ten miles north of Connecticut's capitol. Yes, you read that right, tobacco farming in Connecticut! Whooda thunk it?

Anyway, great thread and thanks for the pictures.
 
After the gathering of friends ended on Sunday I had a few hours before I needed to be back in Hartford. I decided to do some CW sightseeing in New London. First stop was Cedar Grove Cemetery,another old and beautiful cemetery. The first item of interest is what is known as the Comrades Monument. Took lots of pics of it. It is flanked by 2 rows of Union veteran graves.

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