The Civil War Program

The Brookfield Museum and Historical Society is sponsoring a Civil War Program for those people who are interested in the American Civil War as it applied to Brookfield, our nation, and the world.

The War and everything surrounding it is of great interest to many people. That interest may be limited to the years leading up to the war, the war years, or the post war reconstruction years. It may concern itself with social concerns, with issues of economics, morality, or technology. One may be interested in the causes of the war, the ebb and flow of the battles, a single battle or event, the destructive nature of the war, the politics of the war, or on how the war was won or lost. That interest may be of the women who participated in the war or in the war effort, or of the thousands of young soldier boys, or those thousands of young ladies who wrote them letters, or in the millions of men who fought, or of those hundreds of thousands who deserted. It may be of the millions of African Americans, both free and in bondage. 

The mid 1800s witnessed a revolution in public education, a population explosion, an expansion of our land mass, a transportation revolution, an industrial revolution, a political upheaval, a major religious shift, and the breakdown of the great republic in its 85^th year.

We are interested in establishing a forum for people to share their interests, or simply to listen to the interests of others. We will make our Museum available for meetings the first Monday of each month. A Historical Society member will act as a facilitator to the group as long as required.

A lending library of Civil War related books has been created from the many friends who have donated to the Historical Society. A catalog of those books can be found on the Research Center page of this website. Any of these books can be made available to you by asking the Museum docent.

It is the Society’s long-range goal to record information from the meetings that is either subject matter specific or of general interest. Such information may be used to put together general public programs sponsored by the Society. We may also want to make this information available to people who cannot attend any of these meetings or future programs.  

Please call Pete Cronin at 775-3275 between 7 p.m.. and 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, if you are interested in participating in our forum.