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Pat Canavan of Newton, Mass., center, plays the part of a Confederate as more than 500 Civil War re-enactors encamped for an event at Central Connecticut State University. (Tia Ann Chapman / Hartford Courant)
CCSU Commemorates Civil War Sesquicentennal
— Cpl. Robert Brodie's sword, on display Saturday at Central Connecticut State University, is forever jammed in its scabbard by a bullet that probably would have killed him.