Eastern Connecticut State University
Communication, History and Performing Arts Departments
present
The Norwich Nine
An original Reader's Theatre script
by Edmond Chibeau with Matt Hulten*
*ECSU Alumnus
Based on research by Barbara Tucker
and History students
Directed by Ellen Faith Brodie
Assisted by Shane William Kegler
Sunday, April 19, 2009
at
7:30pm
in
The Student Center Theatre
(ECSU North Campus)
Admission: Free
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Andersonville Dead from Norwich, Connecticut
In 1866, Norwich residents retrieved some of the bodies of their Andersonville dead and brought them home for burial with honors in Yantic Cemetery. They included Edward Tisdale, Sylvanus Downer, George Ward, and Joseph Winship, all members of the Eighteenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, Company C. But a mystery surrounds these soldiers. Who were these men and boys and what did they experience in that rebel prison? Did all of these men actually die at Andersonville? Could some of them be found living in Connecticut decades later? |
