Class of: 1988

Allen Breed

Allen Breed (COM’88) of Wake Forest, N.C., published My Own Dear Wife: A Yankee Couple’s Civil War (CreateSpace, 2016), which he co-edited with his cousin. The book, available for purchase on Amazon, is about the Civil War correspondence of their great-grandparents, Bowman and Hannah Breed of Lynn, Mass., Allen’s hometown. October 6, 2016, marked the 150th anniversary of Bowman’s appointment as first surgeon by what is now the United States Department of Veteran Affairs.

From the Winter-Spring 2017 issue.