title: The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice (The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books)
author: Gordon S. Bates
description: &#8220;Bates has written an impressive history of this remarkable organization, the Connecticut Prison Association (CPA, now called Community Partners in Action.&#8221;&#8212;R.D. McCrie, <i><b>Choice</b></i><br><br>&#8220;My Music, My War is a wonderful addition to the scholarship on military folklore...[and] is a testament to the hard work of a diligent folklorist who accomplished much in helping those veterans she interviewed, as well as those who are still struggling with PTSD.&#8221;<br><br>&#8212;Richard Allen Burns, <i><b>Journal of American Folklore</b></i>
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  # History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers
  
  
  #### BY
  
  
  ### B.F. BLAKESLEE,
  
  
  
  
  
  #### Late 2d Lieut. Co. G. 16th C.V.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  #### HARTFORD:  
  
  
  THE CASE, LOCKWOOD & BRAINARD CO., PRINTERS.  
  
  
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  [CHAPTER
  I.](../Text/www.gutenberg.org%40dirs%403%401%408%406%4031867%4031867-h%4031867-h-0.htm#CHAPTER_I)  
  
  
  [CHAPTER
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  [CHAPTER
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  [CHAPTER
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  [CHAPTER
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  [CHAPTER
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  [CHAPTER
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