History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time (1901) (14576322617)

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Title: History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beecher, Herbert W De Morgan, John, ed
Subjects: United States. Army. Connecticut Artillery Battery, 1st (1861-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: New York, A. T. De La Mare Ptg. and Pub. Co., Ltd
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n; Comrade Davidsons gymnastic feats; ComradeCladdings close call; Comrade Griswold describes the awful condition of thehorses 42o CHAPTER XXIII. BATTLE OF DREWRYS BLUFF. Beauregards resolve to make the battle a decisive one ; Heckmans brigade captured; thedense fog; telegraph wire defence; enemy repulsed three times by Weitzelsdivision; General Smith and the colored cavalry; Comrade Sloan tells how theofficers started for the rear; centre section covers the retreat; while others werepanic-stricken not one of the Battery left his post; out of ammunition the sectionindulged in pantomimic loading and firing; Comrade Abels and the last shell;Comrade Sloan tells of the retreat; Terrys reliance on the Battery; Stop thosefellows, Scranton; Comrade Tallmadges steady nerve; description of the battleby Comrades Sloan, Griswold, Hotchkiss and Beecher; Butlers report; GeneralGrant blames Butler ; He is in a bottle strongly corked ; Butlers defence ; losseson both sides in the five days fight 439
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MAP SHOWING LOYAL AND SECEDING STATES. Marching through New Haven Frontispiece. PAGE. Fac-simile of Cannons Call 19 Fac-simile of Original Petition 20 Camp Tyler 30 Park Barracks 66 Embarking on Ellwood Walter 70 Throwing Dead Horses Overboard 76 Toad Sticker 78 Hilton Head . . 82 On Picket, Beaufort 84 Beaufort Arsenal 88 Got any Pies, Auntie? 89 Episcopal Church, Beaufort 92 Rhett House, Beaufort 93 Searching for Buried Treasure 95 Wearing the Wooden Overcoat 109 A Slave Cabin ir6 The Left Section at Pocotaligo 122 Battle of Secessionville 156 Played Out ... 171 On Picket I77 The Battery Forge 214 A Free Contraband going to Market 228 A Hasty Supper on Picket 235 A Contraband 247 Drummer Boys 250 A Straggler ... 267 Swamp Angel 275 Fort Sumter Before Bombardment 276 Fort Sumter After Bombardment 277 xiv ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE The Gillmore Medal 291 Going Into Action 300 Bill of Lading (facsimile) 304 Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston 308 Orderly 309 Facsimile of Christian Association Minut

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