The
Brodhead Optimist Club
The Brigade
Honorary Sugar River Bike Tour Starter
Tri Star Basketball Skills Contest
Jr. Golf
Fall Recognition & Installation Banquet
The Brodhead
Optimist Club's monthly newsletter is entitled The Brigade in honor
of
the 1st Brigade Band which was founded in Brodhead, WI.
In 1864 eighteen men from the Brodhead
Brass Band enlisted in the Union Army as the band of the 1st Brigade,
3rd Division, 15th Army Corps. They left their rural Wisconsin homes to
participate, under the command of General William T. Sherman, in the
campaigns of Northern Georgia and the Carolinas.
*A HUGE "Thank you!" to our secretary, Beth Balasia, who puts together our monthly newsletter! It is greatly appreciated!