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Item 1: sermon delivered Apr. 27, 1862, and Feb. 4, 1866; Item 2: sermon delivered Sep. 14, 1862 prior to the departure of the 19th Regiment; Item 3: address, "How New England Can Hold Its Own," delivered Jan. 21, 1869, in Washington, Conn., at the dedication of Farmers' Hall.

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Guy H. Richards Collection (1918-21-0) Small photographs and French poster Photographs depict army life, vehicles, hospital or First Aid truck, hospital camp, eating, gas masks, and location shots. Folder also contains "The Battery Book", A History of Battery "A"306 F.A. edited by Francis L. Field and Guy H. Richards, 1921, printed from Google; a brief narrative of war experience - Battery "A" Diary.

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Right of way map of North Street in the town of Litchfield, Connecticut

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"Ringbone Receipt" a prescription for ringbone, a disease in horses, that includes a plaster of Spanish flies and angleworms.

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Samuel Hinkley Robbins letter written from Baton Rouge about New Orleans to William Holt Averell.

Scope and Contents Ten-page memoir in which Katherine Bissell Bogert Roe recounts Litchfield in the 1860s when she was a teenager. She recalls visiting her Aunt Mary Bissell, other members of the Bissell and Welch families, and friends; details about the interiors and exteriors of houses; watching baseball; going to dances and the circus; riding down North Street imitating a circus performer on Dr. Gates's buggy; activities during the Civil War; giving Henry Ward Beecher an arbutus from Litchfield; and other...

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Henry Bromfield Rogers letter to his sister Hannah Rogers about family, educational, and philosophical matters.

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Documents relating to a patent granted to Winfield S. Rogers of Bantam, Conn., for a ball bearing hanger and a shaft hanger assigned to Dr. John L. Buell and The Bantam Ball Bearing Co.

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Oliver Wolcott, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in the State of Connecticut commissions Zebulon Rogers as Captain of the 4th Company in the Third Regiment of Conn. Militia. Signed in Hartford by Oliver Wolcott and Samuel Wyllys, Secretary.

Scope and Contents School Paper, "The Role of Litchfield, Connecticut and It's Citizens in the American Revolution," 2006-33-0, is a history essay written by Andrew Roraback in March 1976. The type-written copy has teacher notes in the margins. Roraback was born March 29, 1960, in Torrington, Connecticut. Roraback attended public schools in Torrington and in Litchfield, and then high school at the Hotchkiss School. He graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1983, and in 1987 earned a J.D. rom the...