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Civil War talk in Canton Sunday

Posted 5/29/15

CANTON -- “Now This Horrid War is Over – the Grand Review” is the topic of the next North Country Civil War Round Table Sunday, May 31, at 2 p.m. at the St. Lawrence County Historical …

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Civil War talk in Canton Sunday

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CANTON -- “Now This Horrid War is Over – the Grand Review” is the topic of the next North Country Civil War Round Table Sunday, May 31, at 2 p.m. at the St. Lawrence County Historical Association at the Silas Wright House, 3 East Main St.

To celebrate Union victory and power, the War Department ordered a grand review of the main Northern armies in Washington, DC in May 1865. Stanley Maine will lead a discussion about the grand review of General Grant’s and General Sherman’s victorious armies, as well as the ensuing demobilization of the Union Army and the return home of the St. Lawrence County regiments.

The North Country Civil War Roundtable is part of the St. Lawrence County Historical Association’s Commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, which was fought from 1861-1865. Around 7,000 men from St. Lawrence County enlisted to fight for the Union during the Civil War.

“Now This Horrid War is Over” is the title of a song written specifically for the men of the 106th and 142nd NY Volunteer Infantry Regiments upon their return home to Ogdensburg in 1865. The song was published by Col. J.C.O. Redington and C.H. Clemons of Ogdensburg. The song served as an inspiration for Stanley Maine in preparing this presentation, which will include discussion of the return home and celebration of the main St. Lawrence County Regiments after the war.

Maine, who lives in Pierrepont, serves as a trustee for the St. Lawrence County Historical Association, is chairman of its Building Committee, and is active with both the SLCHA’s Civil War Roundtable and the SLCHA’s Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.

For more information, call 386-8133 or e-mail info@slcha.org. Visit www.slcha.orgm for more information on St. Lawrence County history.