Middlesex County - Piscataway - Northern Women in the Aftermath of the Civil War: The Wives and Daughters of the Brunswick Boys


Sunday, September 23 – Middlesex County

Northern Women in the Aftermath of the Civil War:
The Wives and Daughters of the Brunswick Boys

    Three million husbands, fathers, sons, uncles and brothers marched to war between 1861 and 1865. Nearly 750,000 never returned home. For those who weren’t widowed, many women faced the burden of the drug & alcohol addictions of their returning soldiers or the strain of caring for men suffering from post-traumatic stress – now called PTSD. 

    In the second of this 2-part series, journalist & historian, Joanne Rajoppi, follows her moving and personal story of New Brunswick and the Civil War: The Brunswick Boys in the Great Rebellion withNorthern Women in the Aftermath of the Civil War: The Wives and Daughters of the Brunswick Boys. She, again, poignantly recounts her family’s Civil War legacy with a portrayal of perseverance and stamina of women forced to deal with economic and emotional hardships, while coping with a rapidly altering world of post-war industrialization.
(Source credit: American History Press)

    Joanne Hamilton Rajoppi is the former mayor of her hometown and currently serves as Union County Clerk. She chronicled the military service of her great-grandfather during the Civil War in New Brunswick and the Civil War: The Brunswick Boys in the Great Rebellion, based on the letters he wrote to his family. She followed the story of the Hamilton women after the war with Northern Women in the Aftermath of the Civil War: The Wives and Daughters of the Brunswick Boys. Both books will be available for purchase and signing by Ms. Rajoppi.

Where: The Metlar-Bodine House Museum, 1281 River Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854

Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm. Cost: $15 per person…refreshments included…Dutch Door Gift Shop open.

Limited seating: registration strongly recommended by Sept. 19

Register at:  https://goo.gl/jGFsNy  OR call: 732-463-8363

Directions & Parking:   www.metlarbodinehousemuseum.org OR call the museum

Limited handicap parking: lower parking area. Call ahead.
Location: 1281 River Rd, Piscataway Township, NJ 08854, USA

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