Ashford, Connecticut
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Ashford is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The population was 4,191 at the 2020 census. It was founded in 1714.
Babcock Library in Ashford
Center of town in 1838
Ashford Oak
United Baptist Church in the Warrenville section of Ashford
Nathaniel Lyon
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Nathaniel Lyon was a United States Army officer who was the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War. He is noted for his actions in Missouri in 1861, at the beginning of the conflic
Ashford, Connecticut
…Thomas Knowlton (1740–1776), military officer in the American Revolution, who led the Knowlton's Rangers, America's first Army intelligence unit Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861), the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War Paul Newman (1925–2008), award-winning actor, film director and philanthropist…
Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, commander of the Federal forces at Wilson's Creek
A stone chimney with four fireplaces is all that is left of General Nathaniel Lyon's birthplace homestead at Nathaniel Lyon Memorial State Park.
A monument to Nathaniel Lyon with the St. Louis Arsenal in the background
General Nathaniel Lyon