Three Ringed Black Binder

We all have things we have forgotten about or don’t know we own in our homes. Papers, books, pictures, all forgotten on shelves or in closets. When I was eighteen, I found a black binder tucked in next to cooking and children’s books, inside my mom’s cluttered, almost to the point of hoarder status, apartment. Inside of it were pages and pages following the lives of men and their children starting in 1660 Connecticut. Pages and pages, about the Page family, my family. Every family has a story, but not everyone’s gets told. Welcome to the Family Stories podcast. I’m Margaret and let me tell you one of mine. Bibliography Lauren K. Thompson, Escaping the Mechanism: Soldier Fraternization during the Siege at Petersburg. Civil War History, (The Kent State University Press, 2017), 349-376 Handley-Cousins, Sarah. 2021. Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North. The University of Georgia Press. Robertson, J. (2001). Re-Enlistment Patterns of Civil War Soldiers. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 32(1), 15–35. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3656484 Catalogue of Connecticut volunteer organizations : (infantry, cavalry, and artillery,) Hartford :(Brown & Grossin the service of the United States,1869), 376.