Attack on the batteries at Bull Run by three companies of the First Massachusetts Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Welles, commanding.

News
Announcing Civil War Preservation Grants
Feb 26, 2013

In honor of the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War, funding was approved in the state’s FY2013 budget for the purpose of preserving objects in the Commonwealth which are significant to the history of the Civil War.

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This Week in the Civil War
Fugitive Slaves Seek Asylum at Fort Monroe
May 23, 1861
  The furor that erupted over Benjamin Butler’s “Woman Order”  was not the first stir, or even the most significant stir caused by the general from Massachusetts. A year earlier, he made a decision that, in effect, freed thousands of slaves long before the Emancipation Proclamation.

Events

East Bridgewater Civil War Round Table
06/11/2013 - 7:00pm
East Bridgewater Public Library
East Bridgewater Civil War Round Table
07/09/2013 - 7:00pm
East Bridgewater Public Library
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