Brookline Historical Society Remembering Brookline’s Civil War Dead

The following was written by Brookline Historical Society.

The Brookline men who gave their lives a century and a half ago in defense of the Union will be remembered in a Civil War Sesquicentennial program on Thursday night, May 16, 2013 .

The program is part of the annual meeting of the Brookline Historical Society and will be held from 7 to 9 pm at the American Legion / VFW Post at 386 Washington Street, across from the main library.

Brookline’s 1884 memorial to its Civil War dead—restored, reinstalled, and rededicated in the lobby of Town Hall on Memorial Day 2011—lists the names of 72 soldiers and sailors who died at such places as Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, and the notorious Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. 

Among them were officers and members of prominent families as well as working class men—carpenters, blacksmiths, laborers, shoemakers, and clerks, including several Irish immigrants and sons of immigrants.

Historical Society President Ken Liss has spent the last two years researching the lives and deaths of all 72 of these men.  He will present the stories of some two dozen of the men in an illustrated presentation.

The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the event.

For more information, contact the Brookline Historical Society at brooklinehistory@gmail.com or 617-566-5747.