Aug. 19—GROTON — Every year, the Friends of Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park hold a ceremony on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Groton ...

Fort Trumbull and Fort Griswold still exist ... a major event that included a "sham battle" recreating the fight on both sides of the river. On Sept. 6, 1881, Civil War veterans as the Americans ...

Grant on April 9 at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. A few months prior to that surrender — Feb. 20, 1865 — was the Battle of Fort Myers. Cathy Chestnut wrote about that battle in the Feb. 21 ...