Medals that the Corporation of Brooklyn had struck for the veterans of the Army and the Navy from Brooklyn and Long Island were presented in a large and impressive ceremony held at Fort Greene in Washington Park, present-day Fort Greene Park. Around three thousand men received the silver decoration. In attendance were Mayor Booth, Governor R.E.Fenton, and Admiral Faragut. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Peter Ross, A History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1902), I: 480.
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Battles/Soldiers
