Museum of the Confederacy

Visit the Museum of the Confederacy for a different perspective on the Civil War and its legacy.

Connecticut Monuments

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Legacy of the Civil War

 
A veteran and his family, Byram, Greenwich, c. 1880.
Photograph Collection.

The Civil War permanently altered the people of Greenwich. For the soldiers the horrors of battle remained in their minds, while the bands of brotherhood they formed lasted the rest of their lives. Of the 372 men from Greenwich who fought in the Civil War, 69 died or were reported missing. Among the dead were Major Daniel Merritt Mead and Sergeant William Long. William H. Ritch, Silas Edward Mead and Robert Peterson all returned home, married and resumed their lives. Ophelia Mead never remarried. Lucretia Mead married George Mills a few years after the war, and Esther Mead and Mary Angeline Lockwood lived well into the twentieth century.