Join us at the Sullivan Museum & History Center for the first in a series of exhibitions to commemorate the Civil War Sesquicentennial. The theme of the first year’s commemoration is the “Challenge and Compromise of Slavery.“ Research was conducted with letters, diaries, newspapers and photographs to determine the various roles played by Norwich alumni in 1860 and 1861. Original letters and copies of originals are on display for the visitor to read and consider. Objects included range from a wooden Confederate canteen to a Union forage cap to former Norwich University trustee General Oliver Otis Howard’s dress hat and left-handed silverware.
These early NU men made outstanding contributions on the battlefields but also in everyday life, on both sides of the issues dividing the nation. They hailed from the North and the South, some holding slaves and some sworn Abolitionists. The Civil War Sesquicentennial is a time to examine our nation’s legacies, including the institution of slavery.
In September 2012 look for the second year’s commemoration, 1862, featuring the theme “The Year of Higher Moral Purpose.”
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