Object of the Month – September 2009




Civil War Reunion Photo

We have discovered this photo in our archives, with no identifying information except for a stamp on the back identifying the photographer as H.H. Bennett of Kilbourn City (now Wisconsin Dells). The Wisconsin Historical Society has a photo of another group of Civil War veterans in this same location – which they identify as the Milwaukee Armory – taken in 1889. We assume this photo was taken as part of the same reunion, but who are these men? Are they from a Neenah regiment? Does anyone recognize an ancestor in this photo, or know how this photo found its way into the Neenah Historical Society archives? Please let us know.