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Throughout the 20th century, Brockport residents and visitors
shared their experiences, sending postcards of the town to friends
and family. These postcards
present the important places and events that made visitors come
back year after year and made residents proud to call the town
home. This book complements the author's pictorial history Around
Brockport in Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series. Along
with Brockport, the towns of Sweden, Clarkson, and Hamlin are
included in this extraordinary collection of postcards. The vintage
postcards in this volume span a century of the area's history,
presenting a portrait of the streets, buildings, events, and
disasters that impacted the time and preserving the memories of the
past for future generations.
John T. Farnham, a sharpshooter in the Union Army, wrote a
substantial diary entry nearly every day during his three-year
enlistment, sent over 50 long articles to his hometown newspaper,
and mailed some 600 letters home. He described training, battles,
skirmishes, encampments, furloughs, marches, hospital life, and
clerkships at the Iron Brigade headquarters and the War Department.
He met Lincoln and acquired a blood-stained cuff taken from his
assassinated body. He befriended freed slaves, teaching them to
read and write and built them a school. He campaigned for Lincoln's
re-election. He subscribed to three newspapers and several
magazines and devoured 22 books. He attended 23 plays and six
concerts during his service. He was gregarious and popular, naming
in his diaries 108 friends in the service and 156 at home. Frail
and sickly, he died of tuberculosis four years after his discharge.
He paints a detailed portrait of the lives of ordinary soldiers in
the Union Army, their food, living conditions, relations among
officers and men, ordeals, triumphs, and tragedies. Nominated for
the Gilder Lehrman Prize
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