Civil War

By Carolyn Ivanoff After the Battle of Gettysburg wounded Confederate prisoners were transported and detained in West U.S. Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.  On August 31, 1863, one of these prisoners swore the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America and was released, free to ...

By Carolyn Ivanoff Dr. George Loring Porter in old age. (Library of Congress) In 1936 the City of Bridgeport celebrated its Centennial.  As a lasting memento of that celebration, Elsie Nicholas Dannenberg authored The Story of Bridgeport.  According to the Centennial Committee the volume was to ...