(This is a chapter from my upcoming book, Kewanee, Illinois – Reflections on its First Years – 1854-1865.) Norman Hyde Pratt came to Wethersfield from New York in the 1840s. He eventually became a commission salesman. When President Lincoln called for additional enlistments in mid-1862 during the Civil War, Pratt was one of many Wethersfield… Continue reading Kewanee’s Company F at Mobile, Alabama, in the Civil War
