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Ken Hintz at the boyhood home of 16th Connecticut Captain Newton Manross.                                        Like this blog on  Facebook...

Like this blog on Facebook  | Follow me on Twitter Decades after the Civil War, 16th Connecticut veteran William Relyea drew the ...

16th Connecticut Captain Timothy Robinson's Andersonville souvenir. (The piece of wood, not the banana.) Image courtesy Robinson desc...

16th Connecticut Private Emerson Nichols' gravestone at Andersonville (Ga.) National Cemetery.  Like this blog on Facebook  | Follo...

At a reunion of 16th Connecticut veterans at Antietam in 1889, Alonzo Case took this piece from the "stone wall where the 16th Conn....

Like this blog on Facebook  | Save Historic Antietam Foundation Under a blue sky and billowy gray and white clouds, a lone Antieta...

A circa-1890s X-ray of 16th Connecticut veteran Bela Burr's ankle revealed a Rebel bullet. ( New England Civil War Museum ) Like thi...

Like this blog on Facebook On Sept. 17, 1862, the green 16th Connecticut was routed in the 40-acre Cornfield at Antietam, suffering 43...

The "Antietam secretary" in Massachusetts antiques dealer Harold Gordon's house in 2011. Read my story on the fake in The ...

On a crisp February afternoon, I visited the 16th Connecticut monument in the 40-acre Cornfield at Antietam, where the Nutmeggers were ro...

AFTER DIGITALLY RESTORED: An image of 16th Connecticut veterans at the dedication of their monument at the 40-acre Cornfield at Antietam...

William Griffing created a web site for war-time correspondence between Jacob and Emily Bauer. Like this blog on Facebook   | 'Thi...

Timothy Robinson's grave in West Cemetery in Bristol, Conn. 1894 image of 16th Connecticut Captain Timothy Robinson. (Connecticut ...