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Broom Brigades
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Joseph Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
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A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 7 Jun 2004 10:19:45 -0400
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The Broom Brigades were originally established by the WCTU,and was a drill based upon Emory Upton's US Army drill manual. I have a reprint of the brigade manual, for brooms and fans, published in 1890. An illustration of a group of brigade members in Las Vegas in 1882 was published in Military Images Magazine, Jan.-Feb., 1996, and H.A.Ogden did an engraving of the "Sunflower Brigade", drilling at Hulett's Landing, on Lake George in 1883. It was printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper in 1883.

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