Historic Somerville

 

Preserving the Past for Our Future 

Historic Somerville Inc.
9 Knowlton St.
Somerville, MA 02145

eschofield2014@gmail.com

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  • About Us
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  • Spring 2018 Events
    • An Afternoon with Kevin Dua
    • 242nd Flag Raising
  • Pictures and Past Events
    • Ghosts of Somerville
    • Veterans Day 2017
    • HS Lecture: The Yankee Division, Dan Breen
    • Winter Holiday Party
    • Docent Tours Fall 2017
    • Spring 2017 Lecture Series and Events
    • Bulfinch and the Barrell Mansion, Joseph Cornish
    • Inventing the Charles River, Karl Haglund
    • Revisiting the Flag at Prospect Hill - Byron DeLear
    • Spring 2016 lectures
    • The Jews of Somerville and greater Boston
    • Milk Row Cemetery Tour
    • The History of Somerville Lumber
    • Fall 2015 Local History Lectures
    • From Smyrna to Belleau Wood and the Second Battle of the Marne by Dr. Daniel Breen
    • Charles Williams Jr.: Somerville's Connection to the First Telephone
    • Somerville Past and Present: Images of a Century of Change by Jeff Myers
    • Boston and the Civil War; Hub of the Second Revolution
    • My Life in the First African-American Unit of the Air Force
    • History of Agriculture in Somerville
    • Art Glass of the Union Glass Co.
    • Fall 2014 Events
    • Friday, Dec. 12th, 7-9PM, Winter Holiday Party
    • Tuesday, November 11th, 2:30PM, Veterans' Day Remembrance Ceremony
    • Sunday, Nov. 9th, 2-4PM, talk by Prof. Dan Breen, The March to Laurel Hill in 1864
    • Saturday, Oct.25th 3-5PM, Mr. Allen's Tidal Powered Rope Walk
    • Thursday, Oct. 23, 5-6:30PM, Milk Row Cemetery Docent-led Tour
    • Ghosts of Somerville 2014 pictures!
    • Milk Row Cemetery Docent Led Tours
    • Mystic River Roundtable with Richard Beinecke
    • Defiance of the Patriots lecture
    • 2013 Holiday Wreath Donations
    • The Spirit of Somerville: Booksigning by Eugene Brune
    • Struggles Unceasing: The POW Experience of the Somerville Guard in the Civil War
    • Ghosts of Somerville 2013
    • For Better or Worse: 19th C. Tales Along the Middlesex and Washington, D.C. Canals
    • The Better Homes Movement in Somerville, 1922-1930
    • Workshop: Repair Historic Windows
    • The Somerville I Didn't Know: The Influence of Africans, West-Indians and African Americans on Somerville, 1630-1860.
    • May is Preservation Month - Events 2013
    • The Mystic River: March 24th Lecture
    • Raising the Roof and More
    • First Flag - January 1st, 2013
    • The Struggles of the 39th Massachusetts Volunteers
    • Somerville: Haven for Ingenious Minds
    • Militia versus Regulars in America's War of Independence
    • The Menace of the Three Decker
    • Patriots Day 2012
    • Lafayette in Somerville (Charlestown Beyond the Neck) 1824-25
    • 236th Raising of the Grand Union Flag 2012
    • April 18th, 2011 Patriots Day Colonial Fair at Foss Park
    • 2010: Paul Revere and Colonial Fair in Somerville's Foss Park
    • Ghosts of Somerville Open Cemetery Tour 2010
    • Ghosts of Somerville 2009
    • Ghost of Somerville 2006-08
    • Alan Hoffman Lecture on General Lafayettes Tour of America 1824-25
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    • The Barrell Mansion on Cobble Hill
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From Prospect Hill to Salisbury Prison: the Struggles of the 39th Massachusetts Volunteers 

A talk by Professor Daniel Breen in memory

of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War

Captain Frederick Kinsley of the 39th Mass.



One hundred and fifty years after it began, the Civil War remains the bloodiest single event in American history.  Somerville shared in the terrible losses that afflicted the nation.  Ninety-two men joined the "Somerville Company" when it was formed in the summer of 1862; within two years, less than a dozen were still fit for duty.  The worst losses were experienced outside of Petersburg in August of 1864, when the 39th Massachusetts Infantry, of which the Somerville Company was a part, found itself locked in a savage and ill-fated attempt to cut off General Lee's supply line by seizing the Weldon Railroad.  A large percentage of the regiment was captured, and sent to the Confederate prison in Salisbury, NC.  In this talk, we will trace the story of these men from their beginning on Prospect Hill, where the Somerville Company first encamped, to the Petersburg  campaign, where they lived through their most trying times. 

 

Come Join Us!

Monday, November 12th, 2012

2:00-3:30PM

The Somerville Museum

One Westwood Road

Somerville

Free to Members, Non-members $8.00

 

The presentation will be followed by a short

wreath-laying ceremony at the 1863 Civil War Monument

 Milk Row Cemetery

400 Somerville Avenue, next to Demoulas Market Basket

at 4:00PM. 

 

For more information or to reserve your seat, contact info@historicsomerville.org

 



Tickets will be sold at the door.  Individual membership to Historic Somerville is $25 and guarantees free entrance to all 6 historic lectures of the series.

 

 

The HS lecture series is supported in part by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency



About the Speaker:

Dr. Daniel Breen is professor of History at Newbury College.  He also teaches Legal Studies at Brandeis University.  After receiving a Bachelors Degree in History at the University of Wisconsin, he returned to his native Georgia, where he received a law degree from the University of Georgia.  He was awarded a Ph.D. in History from Boston College in 2003.  His current area of research is Federalist party politics in Massachusetts during the Jefferson Administration. 






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