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By William G. Andrews

The Civil warfare left no nook of the U.S. untouched, and Brockport--a small western long island town--was no exception. Brockport greater than responded the decision of accountability, sending 1000s of its sons to conflict. Brockporters have been one of the first to answer Lincoln's preliminary demand volunteers, and the reports of that corporation within the well-known "Old thirteenth" are popular. one other corporation led the cost that helped keep Little around best prior to the climactic conflict at Gettysburg, and nonetheless one other performed a key function in repulsing Pickett's cost. in the meantime, the homefront used to be intensely keen on recruitment drives and offering reduction to infantrymen and their households. neighborhood historian William G. Andrews retells the stories of Brockport's regiments at struggle, in addition to how existence used to be affected at domestic. realize the tales of bravery and persistence from Brockport through the Civil War.

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