Our Suffering Brave

Waitsfield Boys and Men in the Civil War

One 163 boys and men from Waitsfield, Vermont joined the Union Army and fought in the Civil War. Their individual stories of bravery as well as suffering—from wounds, sickness, and/or deprivation during imprisonment—tell quite a story of the fight to save the United States.
Some made it home unscathed, many were not so fortunate.

They should not be forgotten.

About the Author

Alice Evans, Ph.D. holds an M.A.T. degree from Spalding (KY) University
and a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. Her working career
spanned classroom teaching, school district administration and positions
in two state agencies of education, with her final position before retirement that of being Vermont’s first director of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) program. An Ohio native, lived in 10 communities in five states both south and north of the Mason-Dixon line before she saw Vermont for the first time. Since then she has considered Waitsfield, Vermont her adopted hometown.