Connecticut's Civil War

By Sharon B. Smith

Subjects: Historic sites, Monuments, Guidebooks, History

Description: This book describes sites in Connecticut related to the Civil War, including the spot where Eli Whitney invented his cotton gin which helped make slavery profitable, the homes of Harriet Beecher Stowe whose writings made slavery intolerable, the place where John Brown bought the weapons for the raid that made the war inevitable, shops and factories where tools of war were invented and produced, monuments, museums, and markers.