Picture Connecticut: The Little Drummer Boy

BRIDGEPORT/VERNON, CT — We are sticking with a Civil War theme for another week in the Picture Connecticut series because this one really hits home.

This week's image was taken on Memorial Day during a tour of several new features at the New England Civil War Museum and Research Center.

The display serves as a lesson on what prisoners of war faced and tells the harrowing tale of Lucien Hubbard.

Hubbard left his hometown of Bridgeport and enlisted as a drummer boy in the 14th Connecticut Regiment at age 14. On Oct. 14, 1863, he was captured by Confederate Cavalry at the Battle of Bristoe Station in Virginia and sent to the Belle Isle prison camp on the James River in Richmond.

He wrote to his mom, Calista, that he was OK.

Things weren't so OK six months later. After spending a cold and wet winter in the open-air camp, Hubbard died of disease on April 16, 1864.

The New England Civil War Museum and Research Center is located on the second floor of Vernon Town Hall in a fully preserved Grand Army of the Republic Hall, where veterans met after the war. See more on several new displays here.

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Picture Connecticut is a weekly series that features images of the state, past and present.Here are past images:2024

• The 14th Connecticut, Gettysburg
• A sculpture for a Famous Sculptor, West Hartford
• The Attack of the Flamingos, anywhere
• Historic Tower Turns Red, Vernon
• Eagle Rock, Hebron

• The Cirque, Hartford
• The Amerbelle Spillway, Rockville
• The ECSU Gallery, Willimantic
• Great Captain Island, Greenwich
• Bobblehead Madness, Storrs
• Bobby Sands/Hunger Strike Memorial, Hartford
• Mr. Jonathan Goes To Hartford, Hartford
• The Latest Discount Airline, New Haven
• State Groundhog Gets Arrested, Manchester
• Historic Wartime Sutures, Willington
• Big Business Week In CT, statewide
• The Marketplace at Guilford Food Center Guilford
• Main Street at night, Middletown
• The Hide-and-Seek Bear, Tolland
• The MLK Mural, Manchester
• The Mount Southington Summit, Southington

2023

• All Faiths Gather At Town Park, Vernon
• Riverside Igloos, Milford
• The TPC Pro Shop, Cromwell
• The Santa House, North Pole, er, Northern Connecticut
• Mile 4 Funnel, Manchester Road Race, Manchester
• UConn Lacrosse Giving Back, Connecticut River Valley
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 3, Hartford
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 2, Hartford
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 1, Hartford
• The Doughboy, East Hartford
• The Walt Whitman Stone, West Hartford
• The indoor bush plane, Hartford County
• The Big Pink Chair, Ellington
• The Notch, Granby
• The CT 9/11 Monument, Westport
• Vintage Gas Pump, Somers
• Tobacco Harvest, East Windsor
• Late Afternoon, Lakeside, Coventry
• Fogarea, New Haven County
• Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens, Washington Depot
• Connecticut River Police Boat, Rocky Hill
• The first dentist, Windsor
• The Frog Bridge, Willimantic
• The World War Bridge Rapids, Putnam
• The Peeking Cow, Tolland County
• The Ivy Lacrosse Tournament, New Canaan
• The Bradley International Airport runway, Windsor Locks
• The Underground Railroad, Unionville
• The cow carousel, Ellington
• Charles Island, Milford
• State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown
• Glastonbury-Rocky Hill Ferry, Glastonbury/Rocky Hill
• The Old County Jailhouse, Tolland
• Agent Orange Monument, Andover
• The Sunken Garden, Farmington
• Lafayette Tour Monument, Vernon
• The Pinchot Sycamore, Simsbury
• Bob's Discount Furniture Studios, Manchester