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 UNITED STATES OF AMERiCA. 
 
MAJOR-GENERAL .TOSEPII R. IIAWLEY. 
 
 {Chief Marshal.) 
 
HISTORY 
 
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 attle-Flag Day, 
 
 September 17, 1879, 
 
 PUBliISHED BY 
 
 LOCKWOOD & MERRITT, 
 
 HARTFORD, CONN. 
 
 18 80. 
 
Copyrighted 1879. 
 
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TO OUR 
 
 Veteran Soldiers and Sailors, 
 
 WHOSE DEVOTION TO OUU COUNTRY'S FLAG, 
 
 IN PEACE OR WAR, 
 
 IS EVER THE HIGHEST TYPE OF LOYALTY, 
 
 TIIIH volume! 
 
 IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. 
 
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ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Major General Joseph R. Hawley, 
 
 Arch at City Hall, 
 
 Tail Piece, . 
 
 Arch at Cheney's Block, 
 
 Governor Andrews, 
 
 Dining Tents on Park, 
 
 Connecticut Mutual Building, 
 
 Memorial Arch, M. G. Bulkeley, 
 
 Pyramid op Girls, South Park, 
 
 Arch at City Hotel, . 
 
 Battlefield of Antietam, 
 
 Badge First Cavalry, . 
 
 Badges, Regimental, . 
 
 Badges, Regimental, . 
 
 Tents on the East Park, 
 
 Tail Piece, . 
 
 Gideon Welles, 
 
 Tail Piece, . 
 
 Placing Flags in Capitol, 
 
 Tail Piece, . 
 
 Tail Piece, . 
 
 State Capitol, 
 
 Burnside's Bridge, Antietam, 
 
 Tail Piece, . . . • 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 THE spirit of Battle-Flag Day has deeply moved the 
 heart of the people of Connecticut, and made itself 
 felt throughout the Union. An event that so stirred the 
 present should equally rouse tlie hearts of future genera- 
 tions, and thus perpetuate its suggestions of loyalty and 
 self-sacrifice. For this purpose a full account of all the 
 events of the day, with a liistory of the regiments that 
 took part in it, and of everything which the occasion 
 evolved, is published in this volume. 
 
 Nothing can be said to recommend the boolc to the pub- 
 lic, for the subject of which it treats is so grand that 
 words would but belittle it. At a time when the heat of 
 the struggle had exhaled in a revival of fraternal feelings, 
 when the sorrow of the loss had been washed from its 
 glory, and the brilliancy of the triumph worn from its obli- 
 gations of duty — at such a time, in the mellow fall of a 
 fruitful year, when the sun had poured tlie last purple into 
 the grape and burned the last gold upon tlie apple ; then, 
 on the anniversary of a great battle, whicli had devoured 
 thousands of Connecticut soldiers, gathered the broken 
 remnants of the army of the State and carried their frayed 
 
VI PREFACE. 
 
 and torn war-flags to tlie magnificent Capitol of our com- 
 monwealtli, — there to rest, mementoes of loyalty and valor 
 in the past and pledges of patriotism and self-saci-ifice in 
 tlie future. Tliese flags appeared to the veterans as the 
 faces of the dead must beam upon their friends in a higher 
 world. May they guard the futin-e as the angels above 
 are said to guard the destiny of those they love below ! 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Page. 
 Preparing for the Celebration. — Outpost Pickets, . 9 
 
 CHAPTER n. 
 The Battle-Flags. — Their Present Condition, . . 30 
 
 CHAPTER HI. 
 
 The Gathering of the Veterans. — Regimental Organ- 
 izations, 36 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 The Veterans' Day, 47 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 The Collation. — In the Dining-tents. — List op Donors, . 68 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 Decorations, 79 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 History op the Battle-Flags, Ill 
 
 CHAPTER VHI. 
 
 Boys in Blue. — Connecticut's Military Organizations 
 
 in the War, 140 
 
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viii CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Pick-ups along the Fhont and Rear. — Stuaciolers, . 220 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 Comments op the Press, « 235 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 Battle-Flag Day EcnoES. — Poetry, 245 
 
 CHAPTER XH. 
 A Lesson from tue Battle-Fi-ags. — Sermons, . . • 251 
 
 CHAPTER XHL 
 Seventeen Years Ago, 275 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 A Chapter of Connecticut History. — Our Soldiers at 
 
 Antietam, • • 282 
 
HISTOEY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 HARTFORD. 
 
 PREPARING FOR THE CELEBRATION — OUTPOST PICKETS. 
 
 THE earliest action taken by the State toward tlic 
 presentation of the battle-ilags was by the (General 
 Assembly in 18G5, wliieli resolved that " the battle-lorn 
 and battle-hallowed Hags of our brave regiments be most 
 sacredly and tenderly preserved, and used only on public 
 occasions of great solemnity and importance." 
 
 Under the special acts and resolutions of the General 
 Assembly, January session, 1879, was passed House Joint 
 Resolution No. 141, regarding Battle Flags, viz. : 
 
 "Resolved h/ this Asmnhh/, That the complrollLT, adjulaiit <?cneral, 
 and quartermastcM'-gencral shall be a board to have charge of tlie 
 battle llai!,s of the State, now stored in the State Arsenal, and they are 
 directed to cause suitable cases to be erected in ihe Capitol, and the 
 tiag's placed therein." 
 
 Approved IMarch 11, 1879. 
 
 The resolution was introduced in the House by Colonel 
 Lucius A. Barbour, February 7, and was referred to the 
 Committee on Military AlTau's, of which Senator Carlos 
 
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10 HISTORY OF BATTLE- FLAG DAV. 
 
 Smith of New Haven was chairman. It was reported on 
 favorably in the House, February 14, and the folh)wiu<2^ 
 week, February 21, was cxphiincd by CoU)nel Barbour and 
 passed without opposition. The Senate ])roni])tly concur- 
 ]-ed with the House in its passage. The suggestion that 
 the A^cterans of tlic State sliouUl participate in the removal 
 ceremonies was first made by Colonel Dexter R. Wright 
 of New Haven, speaker of the House of Reju-esentativcs, 
 at a regular meeting of the Legislative Army and Navy 
 Club at Major Tbonuis ]\Ic]\huius's oHice in Hartford, soon 
 after the resolution was ])assed. Adjutant-(!eneial Ilar- 
 land and Rei)resentativc Samuel Fessenden of Stamford 
 were among the mnnber ])rcsent at the meeting. Mr. 
 Fessenden was especially in favor of the suggestion, and 
 manifested a hearty interest in its informal discussion. 
 The plan for the removal of the flags Avas gradually de- 
 veloped, and on the 10th of July the following circular 
 was issued by the committee having the transfer in charge : 
 
 Hartfoud, July 10, 1879. 
 Tlio General Assembly of 1870 having ordorcd the translcr of tiic 
 battle ilags IVom the State Arsenal to the new Capilol, and having 
 dirceted the undersigned to make such transfer, it is decided that 
 the removal take place on "Wednesday, September 17, 1879. All 
 soldiers and sailors serving in the late war are invited to be present 
 and escort the old colors. The programme for the day will be 
 announced hereafter. 
 
 It suggested that each regiment and battery serving in the late; 
 war from this State appoint a member to represent the organization 
 in any matters pertaining to arrangements for the parade, and that 
 the name of the member be communicated to the Adjutant-Gen- 
 eral boibre August 1st if possible. 
 
 CuAUNOKY Howard, Comiitroller. 
 Edwaijd llAm.AND, Adjutant-General. 
 Leveuktt W. Wessels, Quartermaster-General. 
 
PREPARING FOR THE CELEBRATION. 11 
 
 Nearly a luoiitli laier tlio following letter and appoint- 
 ment was forwarded by the Adjutant-General from his 
 home in Norwieh : 
 
 Nouwicii, August 7, 1879. 
 Uen. JosKi'ii K. ITawley, 1 lart ford : 
 
 Goneral— The coinmittcc appoiiitfd by the Legislature to remove 
 the buttle Hags from the Arsenal to the new Capitol have designated 
 the 17th of September for such removal. 
 
 The connnittee have unanimously selected yourself as the most 
 proper person to act as grand marshal on that occasion. 
 
 On behalf of the committee I hereby tender you that position, 
 and trust that you will be able to accept the same, 
 
 Very respectfully, Edwakd IIauland, 
 
 Adjutant-General of Connecticut. 
 
 In response to this letter Gen. Plawley issued the fol- 
 lowing : 
 
 IlAUTFonn, August 12, 1879. 
 
 The undersigned hereby announces his grateful accei)tance of the 
 duty iin|)osed by the foregoing h'tter. After consultation with the 
 committee of the State and others, he makes the following prelim- 
 inary announcements : 
 
 The flags borne by the various military organizations of Connecti- 
 cut during the war of the rebellion will be taken from the Arsenal 
 in Hartford, to the new Cajjitol, and there deposited in the recepta- 
 cles prepared for their pc^rmanent keeping, on the 17th of Septem- 
 ber next, by the surviving members of tiiose organizations. 
 
 The soldiers will assemble upon Bushnell Park on the day ap- 
 pointed, at 10.;50 A.M. A tent will be pitched as the lieadquarters 
 of each regiment, battery, or other independent body, one for such 
 as served in the navy, and one for all soldiers present who served in 
 the army or the organizations of other States. It is hoped that 
 such meetings of regimental societies as may be deemed necessary 
 before the ceremonies will be held at the headquarters thus desig- 
 nated. Battalion or company organizations for the day will be 
 there perfected. It is specially desired and requested t])at, so far as 
 
12 HISTORY OF IJATTLE-PLAG DAY. 
 
 possible, the old color-bearers and guard may resume their duty on 
 this occasion. 
 
 No later than 12 the assembly will sound, and a morning return of 
 the forces will be made to the Adjutant-General for the day. The 
 column will march to the Arsenal, where the colors will be taken in 
 charge. Many of the flags are so worn and tftttered that they would be 
 seriously injured by further exposure, and they will be carried furled. 
 Guidons bearing the number or title of the regiment or company will 
 be carried at the right and left of each organization. No other ban- 
 ners or inscriptions are desired in the column. 
 
 Undoubtedly this will be a more numerous gathering of ex-soldiers 
 than any hitherto held, or any other that may hereafter be expected. 
 All honorably discharged armed defenders of the Union, on land or 
 sea, whether enlisted in this State or elsewhere, and whelher of long 
 or short term of service, are most cordially and fraternally invited to 
 come and assist. Those who, by reason of wounds or other disabil- 
 ity are unable to march, shall not lose the opportunity to accompany 
 the column. It is most probably the last time the ex-soldiers and 
 sailors will be invited by the honorable commonwealth to assemble 
 as military organizations. They will be most warmly welcomed by 
 all their fellow-citizens, and by none more heartily than by the peo- 
 ple of Hartford. They are requested — especially the officers of social 
 regimental organizations— to inform Connecticut soldiers in other 
 States and urge their attendance. 
 
 The following officers of the staff of the chief marshal residing in 
 Hartford are announced : Col. John II. Burnham of the Sixteenth, 
 Maj. Thomas McManus of the Twenty-fifth, Capt. L. A. Dickinson 
 of the Twelfth, Capt. John C. Kinney of the Thirteenth, and Lieut. 
 Charles A. Jewell of the Twenty-second. Further appointments will 
 be made to represent the various branches of the service and other 
 parts of the State. 
 
 Capt. Kinney will serve for the present as Assistant Adjutant-Gen- 
 eral, and all communications and incjuiries may be addressed to him. 
 
 Joseph R. Hawley, 
 Brig, and Brev. Maj.-Gen. and Chief Marshal. 
 
 Scptomhcr 17, 1870 (the annivcrsaiy of the ]>attlc of 
 Antictam), was selected as the day on Aviiich the transfer 
 
PREPARING FOR THE CELEBRATION. 13 
 
 of tlic flags from tlio Arsenal to the Capital should be 
 made, and rc-union dates of (lie veteran regiments were 
 clianged one by one, as the interest increased, until all 
 had voted to be on hand in line at Ifartford on Battle- 
 Fhig day. 
 
 Pursuant to a call emanating from the Mayor's oHicc, 
 which was as follows : 
 
 Mayor's Office, 
 City op Hartford, Aug. 15, 1879. 
 It has been determined to remove our State flags from 
 the Arsenal to the State-house on tlie 17th of Sci)tcinber. 
 Tiic event will be celebrated by a military display worthy 
 of the occasion. It may safely be assumed that the citi- 
 zens of Hartford will fulfdl their traditions of jiatriotism 
 and hospitality by assisting the military to carry out their 
 intentions. In conformity with the request of many pub- 
 lic-spirited citizens,! do hereby invite all who will encourage 
 the festival by time, money, or advice, to meet on Tues- 
 day evening, the 19th inst., at 8 o'clock at Central Hall. 
 GEORGE G. SUMNER, 31ayor. 
 
 a committee of arrangements was selected by the citizens 
 of Hartford, as follows : 
 
 GENERAL COMMITTEE. 
 
 Richard D. Hubbard, George B. Fisher, Leander Hall, 
 
 George G. Sumner, Eugene L. Kenyon, Junies Loekwood, 
 
 E. H. Owen, L. L. Enswortli, E. S. Cleveland, 
 
 James G. Batterson, John 11. Hills, James M. Dow, 
 
 Marshall Jewell, Roswell W. Brown, S. A. Hubbard, 
 
 William Faxon, C. B. Boardman, William H. Talcott, 
 
 Mark Howard, David Mayer, George E. Hatch, 
 
 Roland Mather, James Ahern, J. II. Bolton, 
 
14 
 
 HISTORY OF B2VTTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 A- E. Burr, 
 H. W. Conklin, 
 E. S. Tyler, 
 Rowland Swift, 
 H. T. Speny, 
 Ilcniy C. Robinson, 
 Siinniel II. Huntiwgton, 
 L. B. Merriam, 
 
 E. G. Pai-kburst, 
 
 F. S. Brown, 
 Milo Hunt, 
 George S. Gilman, 
 Charles M. Joslyn, 
 Charles H. Prentice, 
 Charles S. Davidson, 
 J. T. McManus, 
 
 Isaac Cross, 
 Abram Hollander, 
 Thonip.s F. Galvin, 
 Calvin Day, 
 David Clark, 
 William II. Green, 
 W. P. Chamberlain, 
 C. S. Weatherby, 
 James Kennelly, 
 Edgar T. Welles, 
 John M. Ney, 
 J. K B. Stevens, 
 S. R. McNary, 
 Alexander Harbison, 
 John E. Higgins, 
 Joseph R. Hawley, 
 
 J. F. Morris, 
 F. M. Brown, 
 Levi Woodhouse, 
 John F. Jones, 
 W. E. Baker, 
 M. 6. Bulkeley, 
 J. G. Rathbun, 
 Seymour Bunnell, 
 N. B. Stevens, 
 
 B. G. Baldwin, 
 H. P. Hitchcock, 
 Samuel Harris, 
 W. H. Burr, 
 Andrew Heublein, 
 
 C. M. Talcott, 
 L. A. Dickinson. 
 
 Mayor Sumner presided at the meeting, and in tlie 
 patriotic address wliicli lie delivered advanced the fol- 
 lowino: sentiment : 
 
 It is neither ungenerous nor unwise — it is rather most wholesome 
 and just — to remember the war as an appeal to the highest court 
 known to man for the settlement of a vital question as to the charac- 
 ter of our government, an appeal honestly and conscientiously brought 
 on the one side, most honorably and skillfully tried on both sides, 
 an appeal which resulted in a final and inevitable decision that for 
 ever stamps upon this government the character of a nation. 
 
 Regarded not as the triumphs of a section, but as the triumphs 
 of the national idea, the memory of the war should be most jeal- 
 ously, most sacredly cherished. To celebrate the victory which 
 finally crowned the arms of the North, in this spirit, without malice 
 and without vaunting, is to honor the memory ot the brave men 
 who died under the stars and stripes without insult to the memory 
 of the brave men who died under the stars and bars. 
 
 The flight of time and the sweep of events cause us in a measure 
 to be less vividly and constantly mindful of the great service our 
 soldiers and sailors rendered, the perils they faced, the privations 
 they suflered, and the lives they yielded up for the common weal 
 
fliEP AIllN'U FOR THE CELEBRATION. I5 
 
 dmlng tlic late civil couvulsiou. Ami tlio opportumtiea „f =1, ■ ' 
 our scse of prof,,,.,,., gnUitudo for tl..irS~t™f 
 
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 Sri;:::/Si:-x:::SS55 
 
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 Councilma,. Lent B. Mc-riam at tlio «Io.,o of Mayor 
 
 "' ' °' JIaitfoi-d, as tlicir sliaro in the Batflc-PIa- 
 • ,„o,ncs, w„,,,d ...ost choo,.f„ll, lu-ovido a col .ft? 
 
 SUB-COMMITTEES. 
 0/i CoUafion.—Gcncrn] "Wili;n,» rr /-( 
 HaM, J„„„ n. I,i,„, ZIw H , ti^To P^M "''"■■^' ^""""^ 
 worlb, J. N. B. Sleve„s. J. H BcoCRIi ""■'*• ^^ ^- ^'"- 
 
 B. tSrro-kSJ^"-'"- ''■ «■ '=- 'r. F. Oa,vi„, B. 
 
 Major F. M. Brown. " ^''"''''-^' ^^- ^ • Chamberlain. 
 
 0/i C«;v%t'6-. —Alexander Harbison ^ n o. 
 Hatch. -liaiOLson, N. B. Stevens, George E. 
 
 Davidson, LcviV„„.,u„„se! JMIa,u,s, J. F. Jones. 0. S. 
 
__^ — " "^ ^TT^leveland, General Wm. 
 
 Onlnntation and f^-^Pf'-^^^- Gen." C. IL Prentice Alc>..xKler 
 «• '''-''' i. "orTrT^'i^SGen. Hawley, C.ief Hars.a. 
 Harbison, JMa]or vv . ^ 
 
 ^ 1 wUh the utmost fidelity in 
 
 Those committees worl^ed -^^^^Lnt success ot 
 
 their respective d^P- "-fj;^^ ^^rt. To the finance 
 
 the day was l-'-g^'^ ^"t, 'if^rden of the labor. To 
 committee, however fell «'« Z'^;; .^^ M with 
 
 their appeals the « '--/l.^t:^ .nnnific'nce of their 
 noble generosity. In ^ ew ,^ „{ ^very sec- 
 
 eontributions the a^mua 0. -d ^^^^ ^^^^^,^ ,,^„, 
 
 tionof *!"= «***%' '1^*;,^° an soldiers and sailors from 
 At a meeting of the vele a ^. ^j j_j^,.t_ 
 
 other States than Co"-;*'™^^^ "fg^g, it was voted to 
 ford, held Friday evening, Aug. lo ^ ^^^^_ 
 
 . accept the cordial "'jf *'« ," j,; p,..ade, to parade on 
 
 Connecticut veterans." 
 
 COMMITTEE. 
 
 1 .ff«- T F Field, adjiTtant 
 ^. C. Hnnt, 27th Massac u. ts J. i ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ 
 2d Massachusetts heavy art llcM' , U ^„, G, 7th 
 
 55, 124th M"--^^'-»^^;:th Ohfo nfant;y; L. P. Coi- 
 Ohio; W. R. «°f "°;f '/'"cuapman, Co. A, C.h New 
 Wn 46th Massachusetts, A. ".^ „ from Massachusetts ; 
 •^^-kcavalry .raul.Goo^ncli,^ia^^ 
 
 Patrick Fay, Co. E- j * ^^^^^,,„,etts volunteers; P. E 
 Gassett, Co. K, l«tn i T.,,„„as McClmiie, Co. E, Itti 
 Lane, Co. G, 24th M^"'^ 'J'^^Xncw York cavalry ; D. 
 Rhode Island; Thomas Go^^' j^*'^ ^ jj Thomas, 3d Mas- 
 B. Cummings, 65th New Yoik, t.. 
 
PREPARING FOR THE CELEBRATION. 19 
 
 sacliusctts licavy artillery; Frederick Cronert, 2d New 
 York cavalry; George W. Lee, 26tli Pennsylvania volun- 
 teers ; Patrick H. Collins, OOtli New York volunteers ; H, 
 C. Clintsman, 18Gth New York volunteers; George R. 
 Hurlburt, Co. B, 4th Massachusetts cavalry ; John Cotter, 
 GOth New York; J. S. Blanchard, 1st New York dra- 
 goons; A. II. Enibler, 82d New York volunteers; C. 
 Graham, lieutenant-colonel (General Corcoran's staff), 
 New York; W. D. Hastings, 27t]i Massachusetts; Ebcn 
 H. Rathbun, 7th New York cavalry ; A. S. Howe, 24tli 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 H. C. DwiGiiT, 27tli Mass. Inf., Chairman. 
 Patrick O'Farrell, 69th N. Y., Secretary. 
 
 A meeting of the veteran soldiers from other States was 
 held Monday evening, to take action in regard to the cele- 
 bration of Battle-Flag Day. It was voted to call the 
 organization "The Union Battalion." At the next meet- 
 ing, to be called by the chairman, a commander will be 
 chosen to take charge of the battalion on Sept. 17th. 
 The following new names were added to the roll Tuesday 
 evening: 
 
 R. A. Nichols, 27th Massachusetts; Gustavus Booth, 
 5th Massachusetts Cavalry ; R. P. Kenyon, United States 
 navy; Benjamin W. Kenyon, 42d Massachusetts ; Frank 
 Bernard, 7th New York volunteers ; Thomas Leyden, D, 
 15th New York Engineers; H. E. Chapman, 4Gth Massa- 
 chusetts; James Cosgrove, B, 8Gth New York; Charles 
 W. Bliss, A, 8th Massachusetts; William G. English, E, 
 61st New York volunteers; George Harden, 155th New 
 York; G. H. Coomes, 46tli Massachusetts; H. Geeley, 
 
20 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 46th Massachusetts; P. B.Humplircy,46th Massachusetts; 
 William Rogers, 44th Massachusetts; W. A. Andrews, A, 
 12th Rhode Island; George T. Pickett, A, 2d New Hamp- 
 shire; William Boyle, K, 38th New York; John Michael, 
 D, 79th New York; A. D. Worthington, G, 6th Massachu- 
 setts; Philip Raabe, F, 7th New York; T. W. Tillotson, 
 B, 1st Kansas; James^ M. Harden, 8th United States and 
 11th Pennsylvania; Victor LeLarge, I, 28th Massachu- 
 setts; J. J. McCook, 1st Virginia; Patrick Burke, battery, 
 Ohio ; W. I. Fletcher, 6th Massachusetts ; J. D. Reid, H, 
 29th Wisconsin; Arthur F. Eggleston, I, 46th Massachu- 
 setts; Charles H. Keen, K, 17th Massachusetts; John 
 Berry, H, 1st Mounted Rifles, New York; Joseph S. C. 
 Rowland, A, 12th Illinois; A. M. Green, C, 84th New 
 York; John W. Clark, 10th Massachusetts; Robert Goss, 
 69th New York ; Ambrose Muhlburg, llt.h New York. 
 
 In order that the children might liave an opportunity to 
 see the celebration and enjoy the day, the following order 
 was issued by Mr. Brocklcsby, Acting School Visitor: 
 
 Office of the Boakd of School Visitors, 
 Hartford, Sept. 8, 1879. 
 Notice is liereby given given that the Public Schools of the Town 
 of Hartford will be closed on Wednesday, September 17th, the 
 occasion of the Battle-Flag Parade. 
 
 Per order of tlie Board, 
 
 JOHN HENRY BROCKLESBY, 
 
 Acting School Visitor. 
 
 FINANCE COMAIITTEE. 
 
 The Finance Committee appointed to solicit subscrip- 
 tions for defraying the expenses of the Battle-Flag parade 
 
PREPARING FOR THE CELEBRATION. 
 
 21 
 
 met with excellent success in their work, receiving the 
 lowing : 
 
 SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR FLAG DAY. 
 
 N. Y., K II. & H. K. R., 
 
 N. Y. & K E. R. R., 
 
 R. D. Hubbard, . 
 
 Brown, Thompson & C 
 
 Talcott & Post, . 
 
 F. B. Cooley, 
 
 P. Jewell & Sons, . 
 
 Thomas Smitli, 
 
 Jas. G. Batterson, . 
 
 S.' S. Ward, . 
 
 Clieney Brothers, . 
 
 M.'G. Bulkeley, . 
 
 Keeneys & Roberts, 
 
 Beach & Co., 
 
 Calvin Day, 
 
 Wm. H. Bulkeley, 
 
 A. Dunham's Sons, 
 
 J. J. & F. Goodwin, 
 
 Mrs. Col. Colt, ■ . 
 
 Mrs. Henry A. Perkins, 
 
 Conn. Western R. R., 
 
 E. S. Cleveland, . 
 
 Burr Brothers, 
 
 Roland Mather, . 
 
 Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 
 
 R. J. AUyn, . 
 
 Cassius Wells, 
 
 .1. L. Greene, 
 
 H. C. Robinson, . 
 
 Geo. M. Bartholomew, 
 
 Waldo & Hyde, . 
 
 J. C. Parsons, 
 
 Charles Boswell, . 
 
 Smith, Bourne & Co., 
 
 Wm. A. Healy, 
 
 H. A. Redfield, . 
 
 $300 William H. Peck, 
 
 , 200 . A. Oatman, 
 
 . 100 IT. C. Judd & Root, 
 
 , 100 Dr. C. A. Taft, . 
 
 .100 F. A. Brown, 
 
 .100 E. M. Reed, 
 
 . 100 Miss Cornelia Peck, 
 
 , 100 G. F. Heublein & Co 
 
 . 100 Dr. G. W. Russell, 
 
 . 100 E. H. Owen, 
 
 . 100 Erastus Collins, . 
 
 , 100 Robert E. Day, . 
 
 100 Charles II. Northam, 
 
 . 100 Plimpton Bros., . 
 
 . 100 Charles M. Pond, . 
 
 , 100 Hawley, Goodrich & C 
 
 , 100 E. H. Fenn, 
 
 100 J. B. Bunce, 
 
 100 Geo. W. Moore, . 
 
 100 W. Board man & Sons, 
 
 , 50 T. M. Allyn, 
 
 50 C. T. Ilillyer, 
 
 50 George L. Chase, . 
 
 50 George Roberts, . 
 
 50 ijfeorge S. Gilman, 
 
 50 Maj. Wm. J. Wood, 
 
 50 M. Bennett, Jr., . 
 
 50 Botsford & Ingraham, 
 
 50 Noah Pomeroy, 
 
 50 Gen. W. B. Franklin, 
 
 50 L. D. JMcrrill, 
 
 50 Geo. M. Way & Co., 
 
 50 Seyms & Co., 
 
 50 Charles H. Smith, 
 
 50 Mayor Sunmer, 
 
 50 David Gallup, 
 
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 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 H. & Z. K. Pease, 
 
 $25 
 
 Judge Shipman, . 
 
 . 25 
 
 Rodney Dennis, . 
 
 25 
 
 Rowland Swift, . 
 
 25 
 
 Comjit. C. Howard, 
 
 25 
 
 Hart, Merriam & Co., . 
 
 25 
 
 J. L. Howard, 
 
 25 
 
 S. L. Clemens, 
 
 25 
 
 Dun & Co., . 
 
 25 
 
 Continental Ins. Co. clerks, 
 
 24 
 
 C. C. Lyman, 
 
 20 
 
 Chapman & Colyer, 
 
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 Sisson, Butler & Co., . 
 
 20 
 
 D. H. Buel, . 
 
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 Clark & Holbrook, 
 
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 H. K. Morgan, 
 
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 W. H. Pelton & Co., . 
 
 20 
 
 H. W. Conklin, . 
 
 20 
 
 William Faxon, . 
 
 20 
 
 Mark Howard, 
 
 20 
 
 William E. Baker, 
 
 15 
 
 Smith, Northam & Robinson 
 
 15 
 
 D. A. Rood, 
 
 15 
 
 Henry Kellogg, . 
 
 15 
 
 Orient Ins. clerks. 
 
 15 
 
 H. A. Whitman, 
 
 10 
 
 Benjamin Bliss, 
 
 10 
 
 S. D. Sperry, 
 
 10 
 
 J. B. Powell, 
 
 10 
 
 E. Fessenden, 
 
 10 
 
 W. W. Jacobs, . 
 
 10 
 
 J. J. Poole, . 
 
 10 
 
 James Bolter, 
 
 10 
 
 George W. Pomroy, 
 
 10 
 
 Ralph Gillette, . 
 
 10 
 
 Theodore Clark, . 
 
 10 
 
 Goerz Brothers, , 
 
 10 
 
 J. P. Harbison, 
 
 10 
 
 Dr. L. S. Wilcox, . 
 
 10 
 
 The Rev. George H. Clark, 
 
 H. P. Camp, 
 
 B. E. Hooker, 
 
 Samuel Taylor, 
 
 J. Langdon & Co. 
 
 J. D. Browne, 
 
 H. C. White & Co. 
 
 George Sexton, 
 
 G. O. Sawyer, 
 
 P. H. B. Saunders, 
 
 James Nichols, 
 
 Stillman Hose Co. 
 
 The Rev. J. J. McCook, 
 
 W. L. Matson, 
 
 I. Hills' Sons, 
 
 Pitkin Brothers, 
 
 Covey & Smith, 
 
 L. T. "Frisbie, 
 
 G. F. Davis, 
 
 G. S. Miller, 
 
 J. 11. Trumbull, 
 
 Stephen Terry, 
 
 N. W. Taylor, 
 
 John B. Corning, 
 
 Thos. F. Plunkett, 
 
 H. Geeley, 
 
 George Saunders, 
 
 A. M. Hurlburt, 
 
 L. B. Goodman, 
 
 H. A. Attleton, 
 
 W, S. Bronson, 
 
 E. D. Tiflany, 
 
 G. B. Hubbell, 
 
 H. Griswold, 
 
 John B. Garvie, 
 
 Prof. Wm. Thompson, 
 
 Judge E. Johnson, 
 
 H. J. Case, . 
 
 Dr. W. A. M. Wainwright, 
 
PREPARING FOR THE CELEBRATION. 
 
 23 
 
 Franklin Clark, . 
 
 $5 William H. King, 
 
 . $3 
 
 T. W. Russell, . 
 
 5 James W. Cone, . 
 
 . 2 
 
 H. T. Sperry, 
 
 5 Charles T. Wells, . 
 
 2 
 
 C. S. Goodwin, 
 
 5 Charles Dennison, 
 
 1 
 
 G. S. Perkins, 
 
 5 Isaac H. Coe, 
 
 1 
 
 James Purkis, 
 
 5 E. B. Bryant, . ' . 
 
 1 
 
 F. F. Barrows, 
 
 5 J. H. Phillips, 
 
 2 
 
 Augustus Morse, . 
 
 5 J. D. Worthington, 
 
 1 
 
 W. W. House, 
 
 5 II. L. Burr, . 
 
 1 
 
 E. H. Crosby, 
 
 5 Cash, .... 
 
 . 1.51 
 
 Pond & Childs, . 
 
 5 Bishop McMahon, 
 
 50 
 
 Robert Buell, 
 
 5 Henry Roberts, 
 
 25 
 
 A. Hollander, 
 
 5 F. Chamberlain, . 
 
 . 25 
 
 H. Kennedy, 
 
 5 A. S. Porter, 
 
 25 
 
 William R. Cone, . 
 
 5 Wm. H. Warner, , 
 
 20 
 
 J. D. Woodward, . 
 
 5 Dr. Hunt, . 
 
 . 10 
 
 George W. Tuller, 
 
 5 E. Tucker & Sons, 
 
 10 
 
 John R. Hills, 
 
 5 Daniel Morrcll, 
 
 10 
 
 Krug, Parish & Co., 
 
 3 Mrs. Loyal Wilcox, 
 
 5 
 
 Abner Cadden, 
 
 2 J. F. Morris, 
 
 5 
 
 George T. Utley, . 
 
 2 A. C. Hotchkiss, . 
 
 5 
 
 L. J. Hendee, 
 
 10 C. H. Bullard, . 
 
 2 
 
 J. Godnow, . 
 
 5 
 
 
 William B. Clark, 
 
 5 Total, . . . $5,846 
 
 E. J. Bassett, 
 
 5 
 
 
 the officiate order of the day. 
 
 Headquarters Battle-Flag Parade, 
 
 Hartford, September 15, 1879. 
 General Orders No. 2. 
 
 1. The chief marshal announces the following general staff: 
 
 Brigadier-General L. A. Dickinson (Major 12th C. V.), Chief of 
 Staff. 
 
 Captain John C. Kinney, Hartford (13th C. V.), Assistant Adju- 
 tant-General. 
 
 Lieutenant J. C. Abbott, Hartford (Chief of Signal Corps). 
 
 Colonel Francis Bacon, New Haven (7th C. V,), Surgeon U. S. 
 Volunteers. 
 
24 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Major William M. Mather, Suffield (— N. Y. V.), Surgcou U. S. 
 Volunteers. 
 
 The Rev. H. Clay Trumbull, Philadelphia (ChaiDlaiii 10th C. V.). 
 
 Aids. 
 
 Colonel Fred Barton, New Haven (10th Mass.). 
 
 Major Y/illiam H. Mallory, Bridgeport (First Squadron Cavalry). 
 
 Major James B. Burbank (3d U. S. Artillery). 
 
 Captain George M. Harmon, New Haven (First Heavy Artillery). 
 
 Captain W. H. Tubbs, New London (14th C. V.). 
 
 Lieutenant Charles E. Doty, Norwalk (17th C. V.). 
 
 Assistant Marshals. 
 
 Brigadier-General E. S. Greeley, New Haven (10th C. V.). 
 Colonel John H. Burnham, Hartford (IGth C. V.). 
 Colonel Richard Fitz Gibbons, Bridgeport (9th C. V.). 
 Colonel William B. Wooster, Derby (26th C. V.). 
 Colonel Jacob L. Greene, Hartford (6th Michigan Cavalry). 
 Colonel Justin Hodge, Riverton (Q. M. D.). 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Jeffrey Skinner, Winsted (2d H. A.). 
 Lieutenant-Colonel S. J. Fox, New Haven (27th C. V.). 
 Major John M. Speidel, Bridgeport (6th C. V.). 
 Major Thomas McManus, Hartford (35th C. V.). 
 Major Charles H. Owen, Manchester (1st H. A.). 
 Captain D. B. Hamilton, Waterbury (5tli C. V.). 
 Captain Ira E. Hicks, New Britain (7th C. V.). 
 Captain Benjamin Wright, Greenwich (10th C. V.). 
 Captain George N. Brigham, Rockville (14th C. V.). 
 Captain Ezra Sprague, Birmingham (20th C. V.). 
 Captain Fred. A. Spencer, Waterbury (2d Colo. Cav.). 
 Captain H. J. Bishop, New Haven (U. S. Marines). 
 Lieutenant Louis Kingsley, New London (U. S. N.). 
 Lieutenant Fred. N. Stanley, New Britain (13th C. V.). 
 Lieutenant S. H. Seward, Putnam (14th C. V.). 
 Lieutenant Charles A. Jewell, Hartford (22d C. V.). 
 Lieutenant Frank M. Welch, Bridgeport (54th Mass.). 
 
 2. Tents for tlic headquarters of every organization of 
 veterans to take part in the Battle-Flag Parade, including 
 
PREPARING FOR THE CELEBRATION. 25 
 
 the soldiers of other States, the navy, and disabled veter- 
 ans, will be pitched on the East Park. 
 
 3. The veterans will assemble at their respective head- 
 quarters at 10 o'clock A.M., select the necessary officers, 
 and also choose the requisite color-bearers from those who 
 bore the colors in the war, giving the preference to those 
 who were wounded. There should be an officer for each 
 platoon of twenty-four men, for every battalion an adju- 
 tant, and for every battalion of more than one hundred 
 men two field officers. The battalions must be ready to 
 march in column of i)latoons of twelve files, closed in mass. 
 
 4. At the firing of a signal gun at 11 a.m., the com- 
 mandants of the veteran organizations will present them- 
 selves at the quarters of the chief marshal for instructions, 
 bringing with them the morning reports according to the 
 blanks furnished, and also the color-bearers for the day. 
 
 5. At the same signal : 
 
 (1) The First regiment C. N. G., Colonel Barbour, will 
 leave its headquarters and take position upon High street, 
 its left resting on Asylum street. 
 
 (2) The Governor, it is expected, will leave the United 
 States Hotel, with his guards, and move by way of Main 
 and Elm streets to his place in the column. 
 
 (3) The Putnam Phalanx, escorting the civilian guests, 
 will leave tlie Allyn House, and proceed by the route last 
 described to its i)lace. 
 
 (4) The Hartford Union l)attalion (soldiers of other 
 States), Captain II. C. Dwiglit, Twenty-seventh Massachu- 
 setts, commanding, will leave the Allyn House, escorting 
 the military guests, and proceed by the same route to its 
 place. 
 
 6. At 11.30 a national salute will be fired. At the 
 second gun the whole column will move in three divisions, 
 accordinii; to the followiu"' order of march : 
 
26 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 FIRST DIVISION. 
 
 Platoon of Police. 
 
 Brigadier-General E. S. Greeley, Assistant Marshal. 
 
 First Regiment Band. 
 
 First Regiment, C. N. G., Colonel L. A. Barbour. 
 
 American Brass Band, Providence. 
 
 First Company Governor's Horse Guard, Major C. B. Boardman. 
 
 The Howe Band of Bridgeport. 
 
 Second Company Governor's Horse Guard, Major C. W. Blal^eslce. 
 
 His Excellency the Governor and his Staif. 
 
 American Band of New Haven. 
 
 Second Company Governor's Foot Guard, Captain J. G. Phile. 
 
 Colt's Armory Band. 
 
 First Company Governor's Foot Guard, Major George B. Fisher. 
 
 Putnam Phalanx Drum Corps. 
 
 The Putnam Phalanx, Major F. M. Brown. 
 
 CITIZEN GUESTS IN CARUIAGES. 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor Gallup; the ex-Governors; the State Officers; 
 Justices of the Supreme Court of Errors ; President 2>1'0 tern. 
 of the Senate, and Speaker of the House ; the May- 
 ors of the Cities of the State; Common 
 Council of Hartford. 
 
 SECOND DIVISION. 
 
 Colonel Jacob L. Greene (Sixth Michigan Cavalry), Assistant Marshal. 
 
 Chester Band and Niles' Drum Corps. 
 
 Union Battalion (Soldiers of other States). 
 
 Military Guests in Carriages. 
 
 Major General J. R. Hawley, Chief Marshal. 
 
 The Chief of Staff", the Aids, and the General Staff. 
 
 THE THIRD DIVISION. 
 
 Colonel William B. "Wooster, Assistant Marshal. 
 
 Tliird Regiment Band. 
 
 Cavalry— Ihc First Regiment and First Squadron consolidated. 
 
PREPARING FOR THE CELEBRATION. 27 
 
 Disabled Officers and Soldiers, 
 
 Tlic Militaiy Staff of Governor Buckingham. 
 
 The Remington Drum Corjis. 
 
 The Naval Battalion. 
 
 Tlie First, Second, and Third Light Batteries. 
 
 The Wheeler & Wilson Band of Bridgeport. 
 
 The First Heavy Artillery. 
 
 The Second Heavy Artillery. 
 
 The Moodus Drum Corps, 
 
 The First Regiment. 
 
 Tlie Second Regiment. 
 
 Tlie Third Regiment. 
 
 The Fifth Regiment. 
 
 The Sixth Regiment. 
 
 The Wolcott Drum Corps. 
 
 The Seventh Regiment, 
 
 The Ilazardville Brass Band. 
 
 Tlie Eighth Regiment. 
 
 The Ninth Regiment. 
 
 A Drum Corps. 
 
 The Tenth Regiment. 
 
 The Elevcntli Regiment. 
 
 Deep River Drum Corps. 
 
 Tlie Twelfth Regiment. 
 
 The New^ Britain Brass Band. 
 
 Tlie Thirteentli Regiment. 
 
 The Rockvillc Drum Corps. 
 
 Tlie Fourteenth Regiment. 
 
 The Meriden Band. 
 
 The Fifteenth Regiment. 
 
 The Bristol Cornet Band. 
 
 The Sixteenth Regiment. 
 
 The Seventceth Regiment. 
 
 Tlie Norwich Band. 
 
 The Eighteenth Regiment. 
 
 The Twentieth Regiment. 
 
 The Twenty-First Regiment. 
 
 Steele's Drum Corps of Hartford. 
 
 The Twenty-Second Regiment. • 
 
28 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 The Tweuty-Third Regiment. 
 
 Music. 
 
 Twenty-Fourtli Regiment. 
 
 The Hartford Brass Band and Mystic Drum Corps. 
 
 The Twenty-Fifth Regiment. 
 
 The Twenty-Sixth Regiment. 
 
 The New Haven Grays' Drum CorjDs. 
 
 The Twenty-Seventh Regiment. 
 
 The Southington Band. 
 
 Tlie Twenty-Eighth Regiment. 
 
 The Twenty-Ninth and Thirtieth Regiments, consolidated. 
 
 7. The column will move through Ford, High, and 
 Main streets to a point above the Arsenal, where it will 
 countermarch, returning on the east side. As the vet- 
 erans pass the Arsenal without a halt, the color-bearers 
 tliere stationed having received the colors will wheel into 
 column in their respective battalions. A detachment of 
 the First regiment, C. N. G., will be on guard at the 
 Arsenal. 
 
 8. Tlie column will proceed down Main street and 
 Wethersficld avenue, through Morris street to Maple ave- 
 nue, up that avenue and through Park and Washington 
 streets to the Capitol. In Washington street, upon near- 
 ing Capitol avenue, the First regiment C. N. G. will halt 
 and form a line upon the cast side of the street. The 
 Governor's Guards will escort His Excellency to the north 
 portico of the Capitol and pass to the left (or west) of the 
 stand, passing off the ground assigned the veterans. The 
 Phalanx will in similar manner escort its guests to the 
 north portico, and move by to the westward. The Union 
 battalion, escorting its guests to the same place and halt- 
 ing in line, will move to the rear or northward to the 
 extreme limit of the space allotted to the Connecticut 
 veteraMs. 
 
PREPARING FOR THE CELEBRATION. 29 
 
 9. Tho Third Division (^Connecticut veterans) will 
 halt when its right reaches Washington street and rest 
 five minutes, after which it will proceed to the Capitol. 
 The cavalry will halt in line, facing* tlie Cajjitol, with 
 their eoloi"s fi'(>uting the centre of the ])()rtico. 'I'he bat- 
 talions, in the order ol: nuircli, will successively form in 
 line in rear of the cavalry, their colors in the center, cov- 
 ering those in front, thus massing closely in solid column 
 of hattnlions. 
 
 10. The Chief Marshal will brielly address the Cov- 
 ernor. His Excellency will rcsi)Oiul. The organizations 
 will ho successively called. The color-hearers of each 
 will ascend the stand, and successively face the veterans. 
 Tho artillery will lire a national salute, and the music will 
 render the appropriate honors. Tho color-hearers, inider 
 the direction of the committee of the State, will enter tho 
 Capitol and deposit tlie colors in the cases provided. 
 
 11. The i)aradc will then be dismissed, and tho vet- 
 erans coiulucted to the dining tents. 
 
 12. The large numbers, the brief time allowed for 
 organization, and the serious and honorable duty of tho 
 day render it indispensable that the veterans shall care- 
 fully regard the orders issued, keei) well closed up with an 
 even step, and, especially after receiving the colors, shall 
 maintain a true soldierly bearing without regard to sur- 
 rounding circumstances. 
 
 13. Special and more mimite orders will be issued to 
 the battalions charged with s[)ecial duties. 
 
 By command of 
 
 Major General IIawley, Chief Marshal. 
 John C. Kinney, Captain and A. A. G. 
 
THE BATTLE FLAGS. 
 
 CHAPTER I.I. 
 THEIR PRESENT CONDITION. 
 
 IF the veterans of the late war, whose love for the old 
 flag brouglit them to the city, could have looked in 
 at the State Arsenal and seen the tender, loving care 
 with whicli the old flags were inspected and repaired by 
 the committee of ladies selected for tliat purpose, they 
 would prize them still more higlily. The committee con- 
 sisted of those who had the warmest personal interest in 
 their work, and who were fully as anxious as any soldier 
 can he that every flag wliich would not be ruined thereby 
 sliould be unfurled. To every one tlicy brouglit sad mem- 
 ories of dear dead friends wlio liad followed them. To 
 one it was a brother who received his death-wound while 
 bearing the flag of his regiment. Others were reminded 
 of luisbands and fatliers, and one at least found tlie old 
 flag which she had repeatedly patched and mended while 
 with lier husband in the field. It was a pleasing duty but 
 a sad one to bind up the tattered shreds so that at least 
 some part of the flag could be seen. It was also a 
 sacred duty to carry tliem as they were left, and with 
 tlie greatest care, and the color-bearers protected them 
 from all harm as faithfully as in the old days. The 
 
THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 31 
 
 following is the condition of the flags, as reported by the 
 committee appointed for that purpose: 
 
 Cavalry. — One red state flag in good order, one state 
 flag and one national flag in had order, can be unfurled 
 as looped ; two guidons in fair order. 
 
 First Battery. — One national flag, very bad, can't be 
 unfurled ; one state flag, half gone but the rest in good 
 order ; one small battery flag ; one fancy guidon. 
 
 Second Battery. — Two national battery flags in fair 
 order. 
 
 Third Battery. — One national flag, good order. 
 
 First H. A. — One yellow silk state flag in flue order; 
 one state flag badly damaged, to be carried as looped; 
 one state flag in fair order ; one national flag presented 
 by " Sons of Connecticut in California," badly gone, half 
 furled; one national flag in fair order; six guidons in 
 good shape. 
 
 Second H. A. Two national and one state flags in fair 
 order. The last named was presented by Mrs. William 
 Curtis Noyes of Litchfield. 
 
 Three Months' Men. — The First and Second C. V. have 
 both flags in good order; the Third has a state flag but no 
 national. 
 
 Fifth C. V. — One national and one state flag, l)otli in 
 bad shape, and to be carried as looped. 
 
 Sixth. — One national and one state flag in bad condi- 
 tion, looped ; one state flag with staff shot in two, bad 
 order, looped. 
 
 Seventh. — One state flag, nearly all gone, furled; one 
 state and one national in bad condition, but as looped by 
 Mrs. Hawley can be carried. 
 
 Eighth. — One national flag, hopeless ; two state flags 
 and one national in poor condition, but can be carried as 
 
32 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 fixed. (One state flag was presented by the " Sons of 
 Connecticut in New York.'") 
 
 Ninth. — One state flag in good order; two national and 
 one state flag in poor order as looped. 
 
 Tenth. — Two state flags and one national in bad shape, 
 looped ; one national flag in fair order. The first national 
 flag was presented by the " Sons of Connecticut in New 
 York." 
 
 Eleventh. — One national fl^ag, very bad condition, staff 
 broken by shot, to be carried as looped ; one national and 
 one state flag in good order; one state flag half gone, 
 looped. 
 
 Twelfth. — Two national and one state flags in fair 
 order; one state flag, bad, furled; one national, bad, 
 looped. (One national flag was presented by Mrs, Colonel 
 Deming.) 
 
 Thirteenth. — Two national and two state flags, all in 
 bad order, and to be carried furled or looped. 
 
 Fourteenth. — One national and two state flags, in vari- 
 ous degrees of badness; two can be partially unfurled. 
 
 Fifteenth. — One state flag half gone, the remainder in 
 good shape. One national flag, bad, looped. 
 
 Sixteenth. — One state flag, new. The regiment will 
 also carry its new flag, of white silk, the central device 
 on which is composed of pieces of the national flag, torn 
 up to prevent capture and carried through Andersonville 
 by the survivors. 
 
 Seventeenth. — One national, poor, looped ; one state, 
 very bad, can't be unfurled. 
 
 Eighteenth. — One state flag, in fair order, on a guidon 
 staff; one national, poor. 
 
 Twentieth. — One national, fair; one state, badly torn, 
 looped. 
 
THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 
 
 T^venty-{il•st. — One state and one national, good* one 
 state and one national, bad, looped. 
 
 Twenty-second. — Both colors are in fair order. 
 
 Tvventj^-third. — No colors at the Arsenal. To be brought 
 by Colonel Holmes, who has retained them since the war. 
 
 Twenty-fourth. — One state in fair order; one national 
 to be brought from Middletown, haying been in keeping 
 of Mrs. General Mansfield since the war. 
 
 Twenty-fifth. — Both colors badly crippled, hut can be 
 carried as looped by Miss Bissell. 
 
 Twenty-sixth. — One national, fair; one state, poor, 
 
 looped. 
 
 Twenty-seventh — One national, good ; one state, poor, 
 
 looped. 
 
 Twenty-eighth. — Both colors and two guidons in good 
 
 condition. 
 
 Twenty-ninth. — One state, badly gone, carried as fixed; 
 two national in fair shape. 
 
 Thirtieth. — One national, fair but faded. 
 
 The committee of ladies who participated in the sacred 
 work of preparing the flags so as to enable them to bear 
 transportation, unfurled, were: Mrs. S. J. Cowen, Mrs, 
 J. R. Hawloy, Mrs. A. P. Hyde, Miss Esther Pratt, Mrs. 
 Cliarles Jewell, Miss Charlotte Jewell, Mrs. N. Shipman, 
 Mrs. J. Knous, Mrs. Seth Talcott, Miss Carrie Bissell, 
 Miss Kittie C. Pratt, Mrs. Lyman Jewell, Mrs. Henry 
 Pease, Mrs. General Dickinson, Mrs. Franklin Chamber- 
 lin. Miss E. Rich, Mrs. W. H. Bulkeley, Mrs. Gardner. 
 
 THE FLAG AND THE DAY. 
 
 [From the Courant of Sept. 17th.] 
 
 To-day is the people's festival. It is a day of triumph, 
 but not of ostentation over a conquered foe. We shall 
 sec in our streets to-day no Roman triumph, with trains 
 
34 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 of subjugated races and spoils of ravaged territories, 
 nor any of the glittering emblems of conquest. We shall 
 see advanced high the standards of a free people, stand- 
 ards that have been heroically borne in battle and storm 
 to a victory won not only for the union of these States, 
 but for common lunnanity everywhere. It was the peo- 
 ple's cause, and it is the people's triumph. 
 
 Tlicre will be hundreds to-day who look upon the torn 
 and soiled banners of the fighting regiments, who will 
 recall that April day after Sumter, wlien the starry flag 
 was hung out in State House square in the presence of a 
 vast and excited throng — to many of whom the flag had 
 become only an empty holiday syml)ol — who lifted up the 
 mighty chorus of "America" while tlic tears streamed 
 down their cheeks. At that moment the old flag had a 
 sacred value, and thousands at once leaped up to an exalted 
 willingness to die in its defense. 
 
 From that solemn day how many followed that flag into 
 deadly perils ; how many did die to defend it. But the 
 flag that went away in such devotion returned in immortal 
 honor, though borne home by wounded men and the rem- 
 nants of the courageous regiments who had " never let it 
 touch the ground." 
 
 To-day the old flags of the war, which have been stored 
 in unnoticed honor in the State Arsenal, will be carried 
 by the reverent hands of those who fought under them 
 and saved them, to their final resting place in the Capitol 
 of the State, there to hang in everlasting testimony of tlie 
 sacrifice a free people are willing to make for liberty. 
 
 It is a simple ceremony, befitting a people who rule 
 themselves. But in all the historical pageants of the past 
 there is none so impressive, so significant as that we shall 
 witness to-day. No elements of grandeur are wanting in 
 
THE BATTLE. FLAGS. 
 
 35 
 
 it, no elements of pathos. There arc the tattered flags, 
 there are the men who carried them. They speak for 
 themselves; and in their presence all words of ours are 
 vain. 
 
 Tliousands of the veterans who march to-day will never 
 march together again. But a grateful State will honor 
 their memory as to-day it honors the last tender ofiice 
 they perform for their glorious colors. 
 
THE GATHERING OF THE VETEEANS. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 REGIMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS. 
 
 ON the arrival of each corps of veterans they took up 
 a line of march to the East Park, where tents for 
 tlic headquarters of each organization were pitched. The 
 veterans assembled at 10 o'clock to select the necessary 
 officers, and also clioose the requisite color-bearers from 
 those who bore the colors in the war, giving the preference 
 to those who were w^ounded. We give a report of the 
 doings of each regiment : 
 
 UNION BATTALION. 
 
 In the first tent on the south river bank of the East 
 Park, next Ford street, was the headquarters of the Union 
 Battalion. This included all soldiers and sailors from 
 other States now resident in Connecticut. There were at 
 least 1,000 men in this battalion as it appeared in tlie 
 procession. Out of the number who reported tliere 
 were representatives from twenty-three states. The organ- 
 ization of the battalion was completed by the election of 
 the following officers: Commander, Henry C. Dwight, 
 Hartford, of the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts regiment; 
 adjutant, W. C. Hunt, of tlie Twenty-seventh Massachu- 
 setts. 
 
GATHERING OP THE VETERANS. 37 
 
 UNITED STATES NAVY, 
 
 The tent was next cast of that of the Union Battalion. 
 The organization was completed by a division of the men 
 into four companies, with ofiiccrs as follows : Commander, 
 Captain Charles A. Stillman, Hartford; Captain of first 
 company, George Ellis ; Lieutenant of first company, A. B. 
 Gillette, and sergeants John ISIarooney and John Riley. 
 Second Company — Captain, John B. Russell, jr. ; Lieuten- 
 ant, A. H. Rowe ; Sergeants, John Hogan and F. C. Edger- 
 ton. Third Company — Captain Walter Parsons. Fourth 
 Company — Captain George C. Campbell. The Adjutant of 
 the command was W. F. Durand, of the United States 
 Naval Academy at Annapolis. The color-bearers were 
 John Deganhart and William Sullivan. One hundred 
 and forty men appeared in the line. 
 
 FIRST CAVALRY ASSOCIATION. 
 
 The organization of this association (the First regiment 
 and First squadron), about 140 strong, was effected by the 
 choice of the following officers: Commander, Major L. P. 
 Goodwin; Adjutant, Captain Spell; color-bearers. Ser- 
 geant Charles H. Hawlcy, John Logan, T. M. Smith, 
 Samuel H. Foster, George Eagan, all original color-bearers. 
 The organization was accompanied by the Third Regiment 
 Band, twenty-five pieces. 
 
 FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD LIGHT BATTERY. 
 
 Probably fifty men. The senior officer in command was 
 Lieutenant Porter, who raised the First Battery at Camp 
 Meriden, Meriden. 
 
 FIRST HEAVY ARTILLERY. 
 
 Six hundred men were in line. Prominent officers 
 present were as follows: Colonel Levi Woodhouse, Hart- 
 
38 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 ford; Major Brooker, Wolcottville ; Major George C. 
 Washburn, Hartford; Major George Agar, Thomaston; 
 Captain Gillette, Philadelpliia ; Captain Patterson, Nauga- 
 tuck; Captain George S. Bill, Hartford; and Lieutenants 
 Atwood and Higgs. 
 
 SECOND HEAVY ARTILLERY. 
 
 Three hundred and forty men, Major William B. Ells; 
 Adjutant W. W. Bii-gc; color-bearers, D. E. Soule, David 
 Miller, Charles Traver. 
 
 FIRST REGIMENT, C. V. - 
 
 Forty men. Officer of the day, Lieutenant Oscar M. 
 Butler, Hartford; Adjutant, Elijah Eggleston, Mcridcn; 
 color-bearers, Andrew McClintock (State), and B. W. 
 Warner (regimental). 
 
 SECOND REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 Field officers, Lieutenant-Colonel David Young, Nor- 
 wich; Adjutant, Captain E. C. Cliapman, Plainville; color 
 bearers, Robert Walker, Hartford, and William Clark, 
 Middletown. 
 
 John Cane, a Scotch boy, only 13 years old, joined 
 this regiment, and was afterwards in Company K of the 
 Tenth Maine, in which, when 14 years and 10 months, he 
 was made sergeant, and finally was promoted to captain. 
 He now resides in Collinsville. 
 
 THIRD REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 Thirty-six men. For officer of the day. Corporal R. 
 Scott Cheney of Meridcn, was selected. Later, Major A. 
 Warner of Pomfret, appeared, and he was at once, by con- 
 sent of Corporal Cheney as well as by clioice of all present, 
 persuaded to take command. Major Warner since the war, 
 until the last two years, has resided in Mississippi, and has 
 
GATHERING OF THE VETERANS. 39 
 
 never before had the opportunity to attend a reunion of his 
 regiment. The color-bearer selected was David Finn, of 
 East Winstcd. 
 
 Thomas McGlinn of New Haven, Company E (Captain 
 Nelson's), the youngest recruit, only 12 years of age at the 
 time of enlisting, now of S})ringricld, Mass., was among the 
 members of the regiment present. He also served seven 
 months in the Thirty-S(!vcnth Massachusetts regiment, and 
 was tlien transferred to the Twentieth Massachusetts, in 
 which he served until mustered out of the service, in 
 18G5. 
 
 FIFTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 Over 100 men. Officer of the day, Colonel George D. 
 Chapman, Hartford ; color-bearers, Thomas Oldswortii and 
 John M. Cahill. Tin's regiment was originally commanded 
 by Colonel Orris S. Ferry. Colonel Packer, the secoiul 
 commander, was present, as were also Surgeon J. B. Lewis, 
 and Quartermaster E. V. Preston. 
 
 SIXTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 Two hundred and sixty men, Lieutenant-Colonel John 
 M. Spiedel ; Adjutant, Captain A. II. Beers; color-bear- 
 ers, J. 0. Doming, C. A. Peck, William Berkley, A. 
 Queiser. 
 
 SEVENTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 At least 200 men of this regiment were present. Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel Daniel C. Rodman, former pension agent 
 in this city, now of Groton, and who was wounded at the 
 battle of Morris Island, was made officer of the day. 
 The Adjutant was Ira B. Smith of Meriden ; the color- 
 bearers, Hobart Smith, B. A. Robinson, and Norman S. 
 Woodruff of Meriden. 
 
 Morris Parmelec of Wallingford, one of the original 
 
40 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 color-bearers of the regiment in the war, was wounded at 
 tlie same battle as Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel C. Rodman. 
 Colonel S. S. Atwell, who followed Colonel (now General) 
 J. R. Ilawley in command of the regiment was present; 
 but he insisted in giving the post of honor to the lieuten- 
 ant-colonel, because the latter was wounded, while lie 
 escaped. 
 
 EIGHTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 Two hundred and fifty men; Captain, II. M. Hoyt; Adju- 
 tant, H. R. Jones; former field officers present: Edward 
 Harland, Thomas D. Sheffield, M. Storrs; color-bearers, 
 Thomas W. Bishop, Thomas J. Hubbard, H. S. Ives, Orlow 
 Root. 
 
 NINTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 One hundred and fifty to 200 men. Among old officers 
 present were Colonel John Hcalcy of New Haven ; Cap- 
 tain Garvie, Sergeants McGuire and Micliael Cronan. 
 The latter, who is of Naugatuck, color-bearer. 
 
 TENTH REGIMENT, G. V. 
 
 Two hundred and seventy-five men; Colonel, John L. 
 Otis; Adjutant, George M. Coit; former field officers 
 present: Colonel Otis, Colonel E. S. Greeley, Colonel E. D. 
 S. Goodyear, Colonel B. S. Pardee, Chaplain H. C. Trum- 
 bull color-bearers, Joseph M. Nichols, A. J. Hovey, Ter- 
 rence O'Brien, Miles L. Smith. 
 
 ELEVENTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 One hundred and fifty-two men; Lieutenant-Colonel, 
 Charles Warren , Adjutant, Captain Charles H. Simmons ; 
 color-bearers, Moses M. Daniels, Reuben Burley, George 
 Williams, James Dagan. 
 
GATHERING OF THE VETERANS. 41 
 
 TWELFTH REGLMENT, C. V. 
 
 Two hundred men; Captain, S. H. Grannis; Adjutant, 
 James K. Smith; color-bearers, Pliram Edwards, George 
 A. Hamilton, Hudson Austin, Charles Cowles, Andrew J. 
 Phillips. 
 
 THIRTEENTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 One hundred and seventy men; Colonel C. D. BlinnJ 
 Adjutant, Charles H. Gaylord ; field officers present : Colo- 
 nel H. W. Birge, Colonel C. D. Blinn, Chaplain H. Upson, 
 Lieutenant-Colonel A. Warner; color-bearers, E. E. Dun- 
 bar, John N. Lyman, Joseph Taylor, Sergeant Englebert 
 Sauter. 
 
 In the tent of the Thirteenth was exhibited the sword 
 and spurs presented to Colonel Birge when he left the 
 regiment, he having been promoted to Brevet Major-Gen- 
 eral. Both were very elegant. 
 
 FOURTEENTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 S. A. Moore, Colonel commanding ; Chaplain, H. S. 
 Stevens. Company commanders, 1st, Captain Cliarles 
 Lyman; 2d, Captain Charles Lyman; 3d, Captain Fred 
 Seymour; 4th, Capt. D. C. Somers; 5th, Captain CO. 
 Baldwin; 6th, Captain M. P. Rockwood ; 7th, Captain W. 
 J. Sherman ; 8tli, Captain G. N. Brigham. 
 
 FIFTEENTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 Three hundred and fifty men ; Colonel C. L. Upham; 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Tolles; Adjutant, P. C. Rand; 
 color-bearer, W. H. Hubbard. 
 
 SIXTEENTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 Two hundred and twenty-five men ; John H. Burnham 
 Colonel commanding ; Major,' H. L. Pasco. Company 
 
42 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 commanders: 1st (A), Capt. Thomas F. Bm-ke ; 2d (F), 
 Lieut. Bowers, 3d (D), Capt. Mark Turner; 4th (I), 
 Capt. Harry L. Beach; 5th (C), Capt. George S. Gouge; 
 6th (H), Capt. Joseph H. Barnum; 7th (E), Capt. Bab- 
 cock, 8th (K), Capt. Robinson; 9th (G), Lieut. Blakes- 
 lee; 10th (B), Lieut. Goodell. 
 
 SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 Two hundred men; Brevet-General William H. Noble 
 commanding; Henry Huss, Adjutant. George W. Kel- 
 logg, Company G, Assistant-Adjutant ; color-bearers, J. 
 R. Middlebrook, Company D, William Humphreys, Com- 
 pany C. 
 
 EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 General William G. Ely, commanding ; Lieutenant-Co- 
 lonel, Henry Peale; Major, Joseph Matthewson ; Surgeon, 
 Charles M. Carleton. Company commanders : F, Captain 
 J. A. Woodward; H, Lieutenant William Caruthas; D, 
 Captain F. G. Byxbee; K, Captain Ezra Matthewson, 
 Lieutenant A. G. Scranton ; I, Captain S. R. Knapp, Cap- 
 tain J. H. Morrison; B, Captain Bates; G, Captain Kib- 
 bee; E, Captain J. W. Hakes. 
 
 TWENTIETH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 Three hundred and ten men ; Brevet-Colonel Fhilo B. 
 Buckingham, Brevet-Major William A. Morse, Captain 
 James Spruce; former field officers present: Brevet-Brig- 
 adier-General Samuel Ross ; color-bearers, Robert E. Prior, 
 John Keefe, Jolm W. Price. 
 
 TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 The officers were : Major William Spittle; Captains, C. 
 T. Martin, P. F. Talcott, w! L. Hubbell, and D. D. Brown. 
 
GATHERING OP THE VETERANS. 43 
 
 Cliaplain Brown, aged 81 years, was present, and seemed 
 hale and briglit, expressing himself as feeling as young as 
 he did when he was 25 years of age. Chaplain Brown also 
 served in the war of 1812. He was wounded while pray- 
 ing with a dying man at the battle of Drury's Bluff. Tlie 
 color-bearers of tlie day were Corporal H. A. Camp and 
 color-sergeant John Douglass, both of whom acted in that 
 capacity in the war. 
 
 TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 The following officers were elected: president, Colonel 
 George S. Burnham ; vice-president, Lieutenant-Colonel E. 
 W. Phelps ; secretary, Lieutenant Charles A. Jewell ; treas- 
 urer. Captain John G. Root. The color-bearers selected 
 for the day were Color-Sergeant Joseph Wilson of Company 
 I, who bore the United States flag through the war, and 
 Color-Sei-geant W. 0. Buckley of Company E, the bearer of 
 the State colors. The attendance was large, each company 
 being represented. The meeting closed with a speech by 
 Colonel George S. Burnham, which was enthusiastically 
 received. The colonel took occasion to deny the incorrect 
 statement that the regiment had not been under fire during 
 the war. Thanks were voted and cheers given for the for- 
 mer and present officers; also to Mrs. Jacob Knous for a 
 button-hole bouquet presented by that lady to each member 
 of the regiment. 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 Tlie regiment held its reunion at Georgetown, in this 
 State, on September 11th, electing its officers, transacted 
 routine business, and adjourned to take part in the days' 
 proceedings. No change in the officers are made year by 
 year, the same officers serving who were chosen at tlie first 
 reunion, held immediately after the war. The color-bear- 
 
44 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 ers selected for the day were Color-Sergeant Amos M. Geer 
 of Company A. 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 There were nearly 300 men present when the regiment 
 fell into line. The color-bearers for the day were Color- 
 Sergeant Azel Snow of Company C, and Color-Sergeant 
 J. G. Brennan of Company K. • 
 
 TWENTY-FIFTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 The members of this regiment gathered in large num- 
 bers (311 men) to take part in Battle Flag-Day proceedings. 
 Only an informal reunion was held, the officers who have 
 served before continuing in office. The color-bearer of the 
 day was Color-Sergeant I. C. Peck of Company K. Hav- 
 ing been wounded at the battle of Irish Bend, La., April 
 14, 1863, and suffering with an attack of paralysis. Ser- 
 geant Peck was unable to march in line. Seated in a 
 barouche provided for him he held the flag that had seen 
 honorable service, and which he was supporting when 
 wounded. Company K of this regiment held a meeting, 
 as it is its custom to do annually, and selected officers 
 as follows: president, Corporal E. C. Ayer; vice-presidents. 
 Captain William F. Silloway and Corporal S. W. Wads- 
 worth ; corresponding secretary, Corporal John N. Long- 
 don; recording secretary and historian. Sergeant C. W. 
 Clark; treasurer. Private W. E. Morgan. 
 
 TWENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 The annual re-union for 1879 of this regiment was held 
 August 27th. The color-bearers for the day were William 
 Tooker and A. H. Wilcox. 
 
GATHERING OF THE VETERANS. 45 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 About one hundred and fifty members of the regiment 
 were present at the reunion. The officers were elected as 
 follows : president, James H. Colburn ; vice-president 
 Amos J. Perkins; secretarj'-, S. S. Thompson; treasurer, 
 John A. Munson. Tlie color-bearers for the day were 
 Color-Sergeant J. R. Clark of Company C, and J. W. 
 Baird of the same company. Quartermaster-Sergeant 
 Charles A. Baldwin offered the following memorial, which 
 was unanimously adopted : 
 
 "At a largely-attended meeting of Union veterans at 
 New Haven, Monday evening, September 8th, the follow- 
 ing memorial to General Walker, superintendent of the 
 United States census, was unanimously adopted, and Ed- 
 ward M, Graves, Charles A. Baldwin, and F. D. Sloat 
 were appointed a committee to lay it before the veterans 
 at Hartford on September 17th for their adoption, and to 
 present it to General Walker : 
 
 "To General Francis A. Walker, United States Census 
 Commissioner: 
 
 " General — The soldiers and sailors now resident of 
 New Haven, who served in the army and navy of the 
 Union during the war of the rebellion, respectfully submit 
 for your consideration the following inquiry: Would it not 
 be practicable in making the census to obtain the number 
 of surviving ex-soldiers and sailors who served on either 
 side during the war of the rebellion, together with the call- 
 ing they now pursue ? Such statistics, if you can secure 
 them would, we tliink, show: first, that the service in which 
 they were engaged did not injure, morally or physically, 
 the great mass of enlisted men ; second, that for the next 
 decade there will be several hundred thousand men in the 
 
46 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 prime of life and trained to arms, forming a powerful 
 reserve force for the defense of the nation; third, it will 
 be an additional demonstration of the stability of our 
 republic by proving that government by the people is based 
 upon the self-government of the individual citizen. Other 
 considerations in favor of this suggestion will doubtless 
 occur to you, and we leave the matter in your hands, ex- 
 pressing the hope that your judgment will approve and 
 your skill make practicable the obtaining of the statistics." 
 This memorial, worthy of the attention of all soldiers, 
 is to be sent to each of the Connecticut regiments for their 
 adoption and recommendation. A report was made that 
 two headstones had been placed on the field of Gettysburg 
 in memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry C. Merwin and 
 Jedediah Chapman. 
 
 TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT, C. V. 
 
 A meeting of this regiment was held, at which it was 
 voted to form an organization of the regiment, the regi- 
 ment never having made such an organization, or held 
 reunions. A committee was appointed to call a meeting 
 for this purpose, to be held Wednesday, October 1st, at 
 Stamford, at 11 o'clock. The color-bearers of the day 
 were Color-Sergeants Joseph Praight of Company C, and 
 J. PI. C. Batchelder of Company F. 
 
 TWENTY-NINTH AND THIRTIETH REGIMENTS, C. V. (COLORED.) 
 
 The officers of the Twenty-ninth held their reunion at 
 the Allyn House. There were only four companies to the 
 Thirtieth Regiment, and they united with the Twenty- 
 ninth. The color-bearers for the day were Alfred Somers, 
 Richard Simmons, Bland Merdy, and William Gidy. 
 
THE YETEEANS' DAY. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 A GLORIOUS DAY. 
 
 WHEN Wednesday's sun rose upon a clear sky many 
 anxious hearts were filled with gladness. The omi- 
 nous clouds of Tuesday had awakened the gravest fears for 
 the success of the celebration of Battle-Flag Day. The exer- 
 cises conducted in a rain storm would have been shorn of 
 half their spirit ; but in the bright sunlight and the fresh 
 breezes of a perfect autumn day they passed off in splen- 
 did style. As early as 7 o'clock visitors began to arrive. 
 Martial music was heard on all sides, and the streets were 
 thronged with people fiom 8 o'clock on through the day. 
 As company after company, and regiment after regiment 
 marched to the park, the scene there grew spirited and 
 gay. The park assumed the look of a grand military camp. 
 Members of the various regiments gathered at their head- 
 quarters. The First regiment assembled on the park. At in- 
 tervals of fifteen minutes new organizations were arriving, 
 the walks were thronged with lookers on, and, with the 
 strains of music and the blending of colors added to the 
 moving scene, it photographed itself on the memory, never 
 to be obliterated. 
 
 As the veterans held their meetings at their different 
 headquarters reports were made out of the choice of officers 
 
48 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 and color bearers for the day, number of men present, 
 etc., and sent to the Chief Marshal under orders before 11 
 o'clock. As the trains from some directions were behind 
 time, wliicli was really no fault of the railroad companies 
 with such a rush upon them, there were numerous arrivals 
 of veterans after the reports were made out — in one case a 
 body of 100 men arriving ; so that the rolls prepared were not 
 entirely accurate, and in making count of the whole number 
 present allowance should be made for those who came late. 
 As it was known that there were trains behind time, there 
 was a desire expressed that there should be some delay in 
 forming in line, and to accomodate this desire the time of 
 starting as provided in the orders was prolonged about an 
 hour. Even after the line had formed and had begun the 
 march there were men who had come along late who fell 
 into the ranks. It was about half -past twelve when the 
 column moved from Ford street and the park, in the fol- 
 lowing order : 
 
 THE ORDER OF PROCESSION. 
 
 FIRST DIVISION. 
 
 Platoon of Police — Patrolmen McElroy, Snow, Jenks, Gaines, Het- 
 zel, Ahern, and Strickland — all veterans. 
 Brigadier-General E. S. Greeley, Assistant Marshal. 
 First Regiment Band, 25 pieces. 
 First Regiment, C. N. G., Colonel L. A. Barbour commanding, 
 678 men. 
 Lieutenant-Colonel S. J. Fox, Assistant Marshal. 
 American Brass Band, Providence, 25 pieces. 
 First Company Governor's Horse Guards, Major C. B. Boardman com- 
 manding, 73 men. 
 Howe Band of Bridgeport, 19 pieces. 
 Second Company Governor's Horse Guards, Major C. "W. Blakeslee 
 
 commanding, 48 men. 
 Carriage containing His Excellency Governor Andrews, and the Ex- 
 ecutive Secretary, Captain Stiles T. Stanton. 
 
THE veterans' DAY. 49 
 
 Staff of the Governor, mounted. 
 Colt's Armory Baud, 27 pieces. 
 First Company Governor's Foot Guards, Hartford, Captain George B. 
 Fisher commanding, 65 men. 
 American Band of New Haven, 15 pieces. 
 Second Company Governor's Foot Guards, New Haven, Captain J. G. 
 Phile, 59 men. 
 Putnam Phalanx, Hartford, Drum Corps, 11 pieces. 
 Putnam Phalanx, Major F. M. Brown commanding, 89 men, includ- 
 ing honorary members. 
 Captain Benjamin Wright, Assistant Marshal. 
 Citizens and Guests in Carriages; Ex-Governors Cleveland, Holly, 
 Jewell, and Hubbard; Ex-Lieutenant-Governor Wayland; Ex- 
 Treasurer Taintor ; Congressmen Phelps, "Wait, and Miles ; 
 Mayors Bigelow of New Haven, Osgood of Norwich, 
 Lines of Meriden, Douglass of Middletown ; Judges 
 Carpenter, Loomis, and Granger ; Ex-Governor 
 
 Howard of Rhode Island ; 
 The Common Council of Hartford, and others. 
 
 SECOND DIVISION. 
 
 Col. Jacob L. Greene (Sixth Michigan Cavalry), Assistant Marshal. 
 Union Band, New Britain Band, and Niles Drum Cordis of Hartford, 
 
 49 pieces. 
 Union Battalion (soldiers of other States), Captain H. C. Dwight, 
 
 1,026 men. 
 Major Arthur "W. Allen (U. S. A.), Assistant Marshal. 
 Military Guests in carriages — Major-General Schofield, Major-Gen- 
 eral Burnside, General Warren (U. S. A.), General 
 Benham (U. S. A.). 
 Remington Drum Corps, 8 pieces. 
 The Naval Battalion — Commanding and field officers, Captain C. A. 
 Stillman, major ; First Company, Captain G. A. Ellis, captain, 
 A. B. Gillette, first lieutenant ; Second Company, J. B. Rus- 
 sell, Jr., captain, A. H. Rowe, first lieutenant; Third Com- 
 pany, Walter Pierc«, captain, G. T. Carey, first lieu- 
 tenant ; Fourth Company, George C. Campbell, 
 captain, Major Nickerson, first lieutenant ; 
 
50 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Fifth Comjjauy, W. L. Palmer, captain, Tl)omas Keller, first lieuten- 
 ant; Adjutant AV. F. Durant, Naval Academy. 
 Number of men, 176. 
 
 Chief Marshal. 
 
 Major-General Joseph R. Hawley. 
 
 Staff. 
 
 Brigadier-General L. A. Dickenson, (Major 12th C. V.), Chief of 
 Staff. 
 
 Captain John C. Kinney, Hartford (13th C. V.), Assistant Adjutant- 
 General. 
 
 Lieutenant J. C. Abbott, Hartford (Chief of Signal Corps). 
 
 Colonel Francis Bacon, New Haven (7th C. V.), Surgeon United 
 States Volunteers. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel William H. Mather, Suffield (173d N. Y. V.), 
 Surgeon United States Volunteers. 
 
 The Rev. H. Clay Trumbull, Philadelphia (Chaplain 10th C. V.). 
 
 Aids. 
 
 Colonel Frederick Barton, New Haven (10th Mass). 
 
 Major William IL Mallory, Bridgeport (First Squadron Cavalry). 
 
 Major James B. Burbank (3d United States Artillery). 
 
 Captain George M. Harmon, New Haven (1st Heavy Artillery). 
 
 Captain W. H. Tubbs, New London (14th C. V.). 
 
 Captain D. B. Hamilton, Waterbury (5th C. V.). 
 
 Captain Frederick A. Sjjencer, Waterbury (2d Colorado Cavalry). 
 
 Assistaiit Marshals. 
 Brigadier-General E. S. Greeley, New Haven (10th C. V.). 
 Colonel Erastus Blakeslee, Boston (1st Cavalry). 
 Colonel Richard Fitz Gibbons, Bridgeport (9th C. V.). 
 Colonel William B. Wooster, Derby (29th C. V.). 
 Colonel Jacob L. Greene, Hartford (6th Michigan Cavalry). 
 Colonel Justin Hodge, Riverton (Quartermaster's Department). 
 Lieutenant-Colonel S. J. Fox, New Haven (private 27th C. V.). 
 Major Arthur W. Allyn, 14th Lifantry U. S. A. 
 Major Thomas McManus, Hartford (25th C. V.). 
 Major Charles H. Owen, Manchester (1st Heavy Artillery). 
 Captain Ira E. Hicks, New Britain (7th*C. V.). 
 Cajjtain Benjamin Wright, Greenwich (10th C. V.). 
 
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THE veterans' DAY. 53 
 
 Captain Ezra Sprague, Birmingham (20th C. V.). 
 
 Lieuteuant W. H. Thomson, Fair Haven (Assistant Surgeon 1st 
 
 Heavy Artillery). 
 Lieutenant Frederick N. Stanley, New Britain (13th C. V.). 
 Lieutenant Charles E. Doty (17th C. Y.). 
 Lieutenant S. II. Seward, Putnam (14th C. V.). 
 Lieutenant Charles A. Jewell, Hartford (22d C. V.). 
 
 Signal Corps. 
 Mounted Platoon Signal Corps. 
 
 THIRD DIVISION. 
 
 Colonel William B. Wooster, Assistant Marshal. 
 Third Regiment Band. 
 Consolidated Cavalry — First Regiment and First Squadron, 200 
 men, Major L. P. Goodwin; Captain Joab B. Rogers; Adjutant H. 
 S Woodward; color-bearers, Charles H. Hawley, John Lyon, T. M. 
 Smith, S. H. Foster; number of disabled sent to carriages, 5. 
 Surgeon W. H. Thomson, Assistant Marshal. 
 Disabled officers and soldiers in omnibusses and hacks. 
 Ex-Governor Buckingham's Staff in carriages. 
 Colonel Justin Hodge, Assistant Marshal. 
 First Light Battery, 50 men, Captain J. B. Clinton ; color-bearers, 
 J. E. Albro, L. A. Waldo, Charles Bissell, E. Phelps. 
 Wheeler & Wilson Band, 19 pieces. 
 First Heavy Artillery, 600 men, Colonel Levi Woodhouse, com- 
 manding; Adjutant B. P. Learned; color-bearers, T. A. Halpine, J. 
 B McNamara, George T. Holmes, H. S. Cowles, W. H. Birge, Charles 
 Young. 
 
 New Hartford Dram Corps. 
 Second Heavy Artillery, 340 men; IVfajor William B. Ells; Adju- 
 tant W. W. Birge ; color-bearers, D. E. Soule, David ]\Iiller, Charles 
 T raver. 
 
 Colonel Richard Fitz Gibbons, Assistant Marshal. 
 I»Ioodus Drum Corps, 15 pieces. 
 First Regiment, C. V., 40 men; Captain E. E. Wildman; First 
 Lieutenant Oscar M. Butler; Adjutant Elijah Eggleston; color-bear- 
 ers, Andrew ^McClintock, B. W. Warner. 
 
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54 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Second Regiment, C. V., 25 men; Lieutenant-roloncl David 
 Young; Adjutant E. C. Chapman; color-bearers, Robert Walker, A. 
 P. Kirkham. 
 
 Third Regiment, C. V., 39 men; Major Alexander Warner; Adju- 
 tant J. II. Porter; color-bearers, David Finn, William Rubj\ 
 Wallingford Band. 
 Fifth Regiment, C. V., 250 men ; Colonel George D. Chapman ; 
 Adjutant E. E. Marvin; former field officers present, W. W. Packer, 
 colonel; D. F. Long, major; J. B. Lewis, surgeon; E. V. Pi-eston, 
 quartermaster; color-bearers, Thomas Oldsworth, John M. Cahill. 
 Drum Corps. 
 Sixth Regiment, C. V., 260 men ; Lieutenant-Colonel John M. Spie- 
 dcl ; Adjutant, Captain A. B. Beers; color- bearers, J. O. Deming, C. 
 A. Peck, William Berkley, A. Queiser. 
 Major C. E. Doty, Assistant Marshal. 
 Wolcott Drum Corps, 22 pieces. 
 Seventh Regiment, C. V., 335 men ; Lieutenant-Colonel D. C. Rod- 
 man; Adjutant Ira B. Smith ; names of former field officers present, 
 Joseph R. Ilawley, D. C. Rodman, S. S. Atwell, Jerome Tourtclotte; 
 color-bearers, Benjamin A. Robinson, Norman S. Wood, Morris Par- 
 melee; number of disabled sent in carriages, G. 
 Hazardville Band, 18 pieces. 
 Eighth Regiment, C. V., 250 men, Capt. II. M. Iloyt, Adjt. 11. R. 
 Jones; former field officers present, Edward Ilarland, Thomas D. 
 Sheffield, M. Storrs ; color-bearers, Thomas W. Bishop, Thomas J. 
 Hubbard, H. S. Ives, Orlow Root. 
 
 Ninth Regiment, C. V., 130 men, with regimental band; Col. 
 Ilealey in command ; color-bearers, Scrgts. McGrath, Cronan, De- 
 Bowes, Craley. 
 
 Capt. Ira E. Hicks, Assistant Marshal. 
 New Haven City Band, 20 pieces. 
 Tenth Regiment, C. V.,,205 men, Col. John L. Otis, Adjt. George 
 M. Coit; former field officers present, Col. Otis, Col. E. S. Greeley, 
 Col. E. D. S. Goodyear, Col, B. S. Pardee, Chaplain II. C. Trumbull; 
 color-bearers, Joseph M. Nichols, A. J. Ilovey, Terrence O'Brien, 
 Miles L. Smith. 
 
 Eleventh Regiment, C. V., 152 men; Lieut -Col. Charles Warren, 
 Adjt., Capt. Charles II. Simmons; color-bearers, Moses M. Daniels, 
 Reuben B',n-ley, George Williams, James Dagan. 
 
THK VKT KUANS' DAY. 55 
 
 Deep llivcr Drum Corps, 13 pieces. 
 Twelftli Regiment, C. V., 200 men; C'apt. S. II. Granuis, Adjt. 
 James E. Smith ; color-bearers, Hiram Edwards, George A. Hamil- 
 ton, Hudson Austin, Charles Cowlcs, Andrew J. Phillips. 
 CoUinsville Band, 18 pieces. 
 Thirteenth Regiment, C. V., 170 men ; Col. C. D. Bliun, Adjt. 
 Charles H. Gaylord ; field officers present. Col. H. W. Birgc, Col. C. 
 
 D. Blinn, Chaplain H. Upson, Licut.-Col. A. Warner; color-bearers, 
 
 E. E. Dunbar, John N. Lyman, Joseph Taylor, E. L. French. 
 
 Lieut. F. N. Stanley, Assistant Marshal. 
 Hammond Silver Drum Corps, Kockville, 13 pieces. 
 Fourteenth Regiment, C. V., 250 men; Lieut. Col. Samuel A. 
 Moore, Adjt., Capt. F. B. Doten ; color-bearers, John Hirst, John 
 Fitzpatrick, George C. Boomer; former field officers present. Col. 
 Dwight Morris, Maj. J. B. Coit, Col. Theodore G. Ellis, Lieut.-Col. 
 S. A. Moore, Maj. W. B. Hincks, ]\Lajor John C. Broatch, Surgeon 
 P. G. Rockwell, Chaplain E. P. Bond ; number of disabled veterans 
 sent in carriages, 4. 
 
 Meridcn City Band, 20 pieces. 
 Fifteenth Regiment, ('. V., 350 men; Col. C. L. Upham, Lieut.- 
 Col. Samuel ToUes, Adjt. P. C. Rand ; color-bearers, W. H. Hub- 
 bard, Rufus J. Spencer; disabled and sent in carriage, 1. 
 Lieut. S. TL Seward, Assistant Marshal. 
 Bristol Band, 20 pieces. 
 Sixteenth Regiment, C. V., 225 men ; Col. J. H. Burnham, Maj. 
 IT. L. Pasco, Surgeon N. Mayer, Adjt. J. B. Clapp, all mounted; 
 former field officer present, Maj. George A. Washburn; color-bearers, 
 William C. Williams. 
 
 Danbury Drum Corps. 
 Seventeenth Regiment, C. V., 200 men, William II. Noble, brevet 
 brigadier-general commanding; Lt.-Col. Chai'les Ilobbie, Major 
 William L. Ilubbell, Quartermaster II. N. Hays, Adjt. Henry IIuss, 
 Adjt. George W. Keclcr ; former field officers present, Brevet Brig.- 
 Gen. W. II. Noble. Capt. and Brevet Major William L. Ilubbell, 
 Cajit. Charles Hobbie, Capt. Henry Quinn, Capt. M. Waterbury, 
 ('apt. Theodore Gray, Cajit. Amos Wood ; color-bearers, James R. 
 Middlcbrook, William Humphrey, J. S. Bosworth, William Baker, 
 George Hale; disabled men sent in carriages, 2. 
 
 Major Thomas McManus, Assistant Marshal. 
 
56 HISTOUY OF BATTLfc: I'l.AU DAY. 
 
 Tiibbs' Baud, Norwich, 25 pieces. 
 
 Eighteenth Regiment, C. V., 350 men, Gen. W. G. Ely command- 
 ing; Col. lleniy Teale, Adjt. Geo. W. Brady, Surgeon C. W. Carle- 
 ton — all mounted; Major Joseph Mathewsou, Surgeon Henry W. 
 Hough, Chaplain W. C. Walker ; color-bearers, George F. Torrey, 
 John Chalmers, G. C. Setchell, A. G. Monroe, Charles Robinson, S. 
 A. Comius, George W. Cross, W. C. Tracy. 
 
 Ansonia Veteran Band, 14 pieces. 
 
 Twentieth Regiment, C. V., 310 men, Brevet Col. Philo R. Buck- 
 ingham, Brevet Maj. William M. Morse, Adjt. Capt. James Spruce; 
 former field officer present, Brevet Brig.-Gen. Samuel Ross ; color- 
 bearers, Robert E. Prior, John Keefe, John W. Price ; number of 
 disabled sent in carriages, 6. 
 
 Twenty-first Regiment, C. V., 250 men, Maj. William Spittle com- 
 manding; Capt. D. D. Brown, Adjt, Lieut. G. P. Edwards; color- 
 bearers, H. A. Camp, J. II. Seldcn, John Douglass, William II. 
 Laine ; disabled sent in carriages, 5. 
 
 Lieut. Charles A. Jewell, Assistant Marshal. 
 Steele's Drum Corps, 27 pieces. 
 
 Twenty-second Regiment, C. V., 325 men. Colonel George S. Burn- 
 ham commanding; Lieut. Col. E. N. Phelps, Adjt. Lieut. DeWitt C. 
 Skilton; color-bearers, William C. Buckley, Joseph H. Wilson; dis- 
 abled sent in carriages, G. 
 
 Bethel Band, 21 pieces. 
 Twenty-fourth Regiment Band, 29 pieces. 
 
 Twenty-third Regiment, C. V., 242 men, David H. Miller, com- 
 manding ; Adjt. Samuel Gregory; color-bcarcr, A. M. Geer; dis- 
 abled sent in carriages, 4. 
 
 Twenty-fourth Regiment, C. V., 275 men, Lieut. Col. J. D. Allison 
 commanding; Maj. Patrick Maher, Adjt., Capt. I. C. Gleason ; color- 
 bearers, Asahel Snow, Charles C. Chamberlain. 
 
 Capt. Ezra Sprague, Assistant Marshal. 
 Hartford Brass Band, 21 pieces. 
 
 Twenty-fifth Regiment, C. V., 311 men, Col. Geo. P. Bissell com- 
 manding; Adjt., Col. J. E. Hamilton ; former field oflicers present, 
 Lieut. W. H. Parmelee, Captains W. F. Silloway, Charles Talcott, 
 R. W. Roberts, George H. Foskctt, A. G. Hinckley, W. W. Abby, 
 Lieuts. Charles Avery, O. W. Sanford, I. W. Beach, II. A. Kijjpen ; 
 color-bearers, Marvin Shearer, Joseph Fischer, E. D. Farnham, Ben- 
 jamin Wilcox; number of disabled sent in carriages, 3. 
 
THE veterans' DAY. 57 
 
 Twenty-sixth Drum Corps, 6 pieces. 
 
 Twenty sixth Eegiment, C. V., 170 men, Lieut.-Col. Joseph Sel- 
 tlen commanding; Adjt., Lieut. S. B. Mecch ; former tield officers, 
 present, Col. T. G. Kingsk^y, Lieut.-Col. Seldeu ; color-bearers, A. 
 II. Wilcox, W. Tooker. 
 
 New Haven Drum Corps, G pieces. 
 
 Twenty-seventh Regiment, C. V., Col. Richard T. Bostwick com- 
 manding; Maj. James IT. Coburn, AdJt. George F. Peterson ; former 
 field officer present, Maj. Theodore Bixbee; color-bearers, J. IT. 
 Clark, J. W. Baird. 
 
 Maj. C. IT. Owen, Assistant Marshal. 
 Southington Band, 20 pieces. 
 
 Twenty-eighth Regiment, C. V., 75 men, Maj. W. B. Wcscomb 
 commanding; Adjt. C. P. Newman; color-bearers, J. IT. C. Bacliel- 
 der, L. E. Bissell, Alonzo Morgan. 
 
 Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth, C. V., (colored) consolidated, 200 
 men, Lieut. Col. F. E. Camp commanding; Adjt. J. L. Spalding; 
 former field officers present, Col. W. B. Wooster, Lieut.-Col. D. Tor- 
 rance, Maj. E. W. Bacon; color-bearers, Alfred Somers, Richard 
 Sommers, Bland Moody, William Gidy. 
 
 THE MARCH TO THE ARSENAL. 
 
 THE First regiment, tlie Governor's Guards, and the 
 Putnam Plialanx moved up High street and waited 
 a considerable time before the final start for the second 
 division. Meanwhile a detail of color-bearers passed 
 along in advance to the Arsenal. The march up was a 
 continuous ovation. At every point the veterans were 
 greeted with cheers and waving of handkerchiefs. The 
 decorations along High street and Windsor avenue were 
 superb. The walks were thronged with multitudes of 
 spectators. At two houses on the avenue little girls 
 decked in gorgeous colors of the day appeared in the ves- 
 tibules, and each regiment cheered them. At the Arsenal 
 
58 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 tlie color-guards were drawn up in line, bearing the glor- 
 ious flags, the most of them being so tattered as to prevent 
 unfurling. As the head of tlie column approached the 
 colors, and caught a glimpse of them, for the first time a^ 
 prolonged cheer rent the air, which was taken up by each 
 regiment, and participated in by the vast concourse of 
 spectators. As the column countermarched, the color- 
 bearers fell into their respective regiments, and the loved 
 flags, once more and for the last time consigned to those 
 who bore them through the war, were tenderly carried 
 toward their final depository. As the line drew into 
 North Main street the church bells were ringing, and all 
 along the line there were continuous huzzas. Main street 
 has never been so packed with people. At Court House 
 square the crowd was so great as to prevent for a time the 
 advance. 
 
 No better position for seeing the grand parade was 
 afforded than in the vicinity of the old State House. It 
 was a full hour in passing that point — from half-past one 
 to half-past two. The streets were black with humanity 
 as far as the eye could see in either direction. The merry 
 peal of bells from the churches announced the turning of 
 the procession from North Main into Main street. First 
 appeared a squad of veteran police, then the scarlet-coated 
 First regiment band, with glistening instruments. Beyond 
 them the eye rested on a pretty spectacle — the First, in 
 its new uniform, helmet hats, muskets glittering, and with 
 mounted field and staff with white helmets. The march- 
 ing was splendid, and elicited frequent applause. The 
 scarlet and white of the American band headed the First 
 company Governor's Horse Guards, finely mounted, and 
 behind them came the grey uniforms of the Second com- 
 pany, from New Haven. In a carriage were Governor 
 
THE veterans' DAY. 59 
 
 Andrews and Executive Secretary Stanton, followed by the 
 Governor's military staff, mounted. Colt's band in scarlet 
 and white fitly led the Governor's Foot Guards in their 
 antique grenadier dress, and behind, with open ranks, 
 was the Putnam Phalanx. Next were fourteen carriages 
 containing State and city officials. A Bridgeport band 
 headed the Union division of soldiers of other States, who 
 escorted the military guests in carriages. 
 
 After the passage of the naval battalion there occurred 
 quite a long break, but soon General Ilawley, in full uni- 
 form of a major-general, mounted on a magnificent grey, 
 came in sight, accompanied by his staff. A yellow 
 plumed band led the first of the veteran regiments — the 
 First cavalry, with red neckties and yellow badges — many 
 civilians in dress of black with black felt hats. 
 
 Such in fact was the dress of the veterans throughout, 
 excepting that liere and there appeared a uniform pre- 
 served during fourteen years of peace. 
 
 The disabled veterans occupied two large four-horse 
 omnibuses and several carriages, all prettily decorated. 
 Back of them the eye rested upon a solid swaying mass of 
 veterans, filling Main street as far as the eye could see to 
 the nortlivvard, flags and guidon^ fluttering in the breeze, 
 band instruments glittering, and mingled strains of music 
 falling on the ear. Tiie platoons of twelve files were gen- 
 erally full. The First and Second batteries came next 
 with white and red badges, and a white uniformed band 
 preceded the grand column of the famous First Artillery, 
 at the head of which rode Colonel Woodhouse. The men 
 wore red badges and over them waved the State flag, or 
 yellow flag, and their national colors, almost in shreds. 
 The Second artillery also made a heavy showing in mem- 
 bers, their national flags tattered, the State flag fairly pre- 
 
60 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 served. To the rattle of tlie Moodiis drum corps tlie tlirec 
 months' regiments, tlie heroes of '61, kept step and dis- 
 played their old colors proudly. The Fifth, with good 
 ranks, showed red star corps medals, and several uniforms 
 were seen in the ranks. The gallant Sixth made a fine 
 display, and following after the red-shirted Wolcottville 
 drum-corps came the "fighting Seventh," who turned out 
 in large numbers, although from the western part of the 
 State. The Eighth showed good numbers and four flags, 
 upon one of which was emblazoned its battles, exhibiting 
 Fredericksburg prominently. 
 
 The Ninth (the Irish regiment) was cheered again and 
 again as it swept along, and after the New Haven city 
 band came the Tenth and Eleventh with large numerical 
 strength. The Twelfth's flags told the story of its valor, 
 and the Thirteenth could not unfurl its shredded national 
 flags, although its State showed its list of engagements. 
 In the midst of the full ranks of the Fourteenth rode 
 Colonel Ellis of Hartford, and the loud cheering of the 
 spectators back along the line heralded the approach of the 
 gallant Sixteenth Avhich swept along headed by Colonel 
 Burnham and staff, mounted and in full uniform. The 
 flag saved at Plymouth was cheered again and again, as it 
 waived proudly over the survivors of that day of disaster 
 and of the prison pen at Andcrsonville. 
 
 The Seventeenth showed full ranks, and a gray-coated 
 band from Norwich headed the splendid display of the 
 Eighteenth, headed by its field and staff, mounted. The 
 hour was now 2.20, and yet the line filled the space away to 
 the northward. The Twentieth and Twenty-first, each with 
 full ranks and worn banners, brought up the rear of the 
 three years' men. The Twenty-second (nine months), 
 although comparatively a short time in service, bore flags 
 
THE veterans' DAY. 61 
 
 showing that it had not been easy. The Twenty-third's 
 was a creditable showing, also the Twenty-fourth — the sur- 
 vivors of the deadly Louisiana campaign. The officers of 
 the Twenty-fifth, seated in a carriage, carried their old 
 colors at the head of their regiment. The Twenty-sixth 
 and Twenty-seventh came next, with well-filled platoons, 
 and then the Twenty-eighth, headed by a band witli showy 
 drum-major, Tlie colored regiments brought up the rear 
 of the procession — showing about 139 men for the both, 
 proudly carrying their colors. 
 
 Upon the arrival of the column at the Capitol, the vet- 
 eran battalion formed in line, facing the north front, 
 carrying their colors in the center, covering those in front 
 so as to make a perfect line of color-ljcarcrs in the center 
 of the column solidly massed. When all had assembled 
 there was a dense mass of veterans extending from the 
 capitol down to the terrace. After all the bands which 
 were in front liad played " jMarching Through Georgia" 
 together, and other old army airs, and the veterans had 
 sang under the lead of Captain Charles A. Jewell, the 
 formal presentation of the battle flags by General Ilawlcy 
 to Governor Andrews took place upon a platform raised in 
 front of the building. 
 
 GENERAL HAWLEY's ADDRESS. 
 
 Yoii7' Excellency : — We are eight thousand citizens, 
 who were soldiers from Connecticut in the late war for 
 Union and Liberty. We come in obedience to an invita- 
 tion of our beloved Commonwealth, to bring these eighty 
 flags from their temporary resting place to their final 
 home, in this new and beautifid Capitol. For the great 
 honor and pleasure of the day we are grateful to the 
 General Assembly, to you, the Chief Magistrate, and to 
 
62 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 the great concourse of citizens who have testified their 
 cxtreuie good will iu mauy ways. We shall make many 
 pilgrimages to the shrine where these standards are to 
 rest. We shall often recall, as we do to-day, the conn-ades 
 who dared to die in following these emblems of duty and 
 glory, and shall revive the innumerable memories of four 
 years of marvelous national exaltation. 
 
 But it is quite certain that we shall never again be sum- 
 moned as battalions, with trumpet and drum, banner and 
 cannon, for even a noble holiday like this. Let the flags 
 rest. In a few years these men will no longer be able to 
 bear arms for the land they love, but these weather-worn 
 and battle-torn folds shall remain through the centuries 
 testifying that Connecticut was true to free government, 
 and pledging her future fidelity. It can never again be 
 doubted that the Great Republic can find millions of de- 
 fenders in a day of trouble, and millions of blessed women 
 to sustain them. These poor shreds and humble staves, 
 to be glorified in the eyes of future generations, have wit- 
 nessed the dedication of a continent to Justice, p]qual 
 Rights, Union, and Liberty. We bid them good-bye. 
 Thanks be. to Gud, abundant and exulting tlianks to the 
 Almighty Father, that we lived in those days, and were 
 permitted to do something toward seeing that the govern- 
 ment of, by, and for the people shall not perish from the 
 earth." 
 
 Governor Andrews responded as follows : 
 
 GOVERNOR Andrews's address. 
 
 General Haivley and Veteratis of Connecticut : — In the 
 name and on behalf of the State I accept these flags from 
 the hands of the men who carried them in war. For 
 more than four years of conflict wherever the camp was 
 
GOVEUNOK CIIAULES B. ANDHEWS, 
 
THE veterans' DAY. QS 
 
 the hardest, wherever the siege was the fiercest, whei'ever 
 the march was the longest, wherever the figlit was the 
 sorest, tiiey were always to be seen. For all that period, 
 through all tlie smiting suns of the South, through all the 
 blasting winds, tln-ongh summers and winters, and all the 
 alternating seasons, they were at all times unfurled. They 
 come back to us riddled by sliot, tattered and torn, black- 
 ened and grimmed with tlie smoke and powder of battle, 
 but they bring us no word of flight or dislionor. 
 
 TlMjy speak to us of the many displays of manly and 
 heroic virtues which amid the duties of war have illustra- 
 ted the cliaracter of the sons of Connecticut. With a 
 pathos at which every heart softens and every eye grows 
 dim, they tell us of the many thousand soldiers from our 
 State, who, counting not their lives dear, willingly laid 
 them down for the honor of their country. 
 
 That sacred and mysterious sympathy Avliicli goes out 
 from almost every fireside within our borders to all tlie 
 battle-fields of the rebellion finds in those ragged ensigns 
 its dearest and its intensest expression. 
 
 Lovingly then, and tenderly, let us lay them away in 
 the motherly arms of. the State whose trophies they now 
 become, that they may teach these lessons of patriotism 
 and of duty to all future generations. 
 
 Both speakers were frequently applauded, and at the 
 close cheered. The most dramatic and touching events 
 of tlie whole day was the passing in of the colors by 
 the color-bearers to be deposited in the elegant cases pre- 
 pared to receive them in the west vestibule of the Capitol. 
 It was a grand, and yet most affecting scene. The bear- 
 ers of each regiment came forward separately, carrying the 
 torn, storm-beaten old flags, and as each set of colors was 
 presented, the regiment which had defended them waved 
 
66 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 hats and cheered over them ; and so from one long line to 
 the other tlie color-bearers came forward, tenderly bear- 
 ing the old banners dearly loved by tliemselves and their 
 comrades, and passed tliem in. It was solemn, yet grand : 
 tlie scene went straight home to the hearts of many, and 
 eyes filled witli tears. There was a solemnity deeper 
 tlian fonnd expression, and a picturesqueness abont it that 
 aronsed one's cnthnsiasm and patriotism to tlie liiglicst 
 pitcli. 
 
 After the disposition of the flags, the vast conc«nrsc 
 called for some of tlie generals wiio were on the platform, 
 and several were introduced by General Ilawley and re- 
 ceived with hearty cheers. 
 
 General Burnside, after the applause had subsided, said 
 in substance ; 
 
 " Comrades — That I was an humble member of the 
 great army which battled in the late war for the main- 
 tenance and integrity of the Union, I am very glad ; that 
 I am deemed wortliy of so cordial a call and greeting as 
 you have given me, I am very proud. I regard them as 
 no empty compliments, coming as they do from veterans 
 with whom I liave served. Tliis day has been to me most 
 cheering, as I feel sure it lias been to yon. I congratulate 
 you and the authorities of the State of Connecticut upon 
 the great success wliich has attended tliis occasion. It is 
 alike creditable to you all ; to the authorities for the elab- 
 orate and liberal arrangements for tlie removal of these 
 grand old battle-worn flags from their temporary home, 
 to their permanent one in this magnificent capitol, and to 
 you for the heartiness with which you sprang into such 
 great numbers to the duty of making tlie transfer with 
 such imposing and reverent ceremony. They are relics 
 worthy of all the honor done them to-day. The love of 
 
THE veterans' DAY. 67 
 
 these old flags and the love of the Union are coincident. 
 Let us cherish this love, comrades, and do all we can by 
 example and precept to transmit it to posterity." 
 
 General Schofield bowed his thanks and retired, fol- 
 lowed by applause. 
 
 General Franklin, whose tall form was greeted with 
 cheers, said simply, in substance, that it was thirty-three 
 years since he began to go to war; and when he thought 
 of the past and all its great events, he felt that his time 
 had nearly come to be laid away with the worn old flags. 
 But yet when he saw the mass of veteran soldiers before 
 him, he was as young as any of them, and he knew from 
 the demonstration of to-day, that if necessity arose they 
 were able to fight another war, to as successful an issue. 
 
 General Warren bowed in reply to the cheers. Gen- 
 eral Benham said a few hasty words, and General Car- 
 rington, General Harland, and General Birge acknowl- 
 edged the cheering of the assembly. In conclusion, Gen- 
 eral Hawley, in dismissing the veterans, said : 
 
 " Comrades — No word that any man can say can add 
 to the pathos and true grandeur of what we have done to- 
 day if our work be rightly understood. Certainly at this 
 time I cannot think of addressing you any further now. 
 I know you are weary by your long march, and though 
 you clamor for speeches I must send you to dinner. Try 
 to go to the table in the order of march that brought you 
 here. You may not be able to get in at once ; but I 
 assure you that Hartford has provided an abundance, and 
 I know you will be a little patient with each other." 
 
THE COLLATIOF. 
 
 CHAPTER Y. 
 
 IN THE DINING TENTS.— LIST OF DONORS. 
 
 ONE of the neatest tilings of the whole day, showing 
 the ways of the old soldier, was the good order main- 
 tained in getting into the dining tents. There was an 
 abundant provision of food — so much, indeed, that half as 
 many more veterans could have been comfortably fed. The 
 management of the feeding arrangements, which were 
 chiefly in the hands of General W. H. Green and Mr. Jasper 
 H. Bolton, were excellent throughout, and the generous 
 donations made by the ladies of Hartford deserve a most 
 hearty acknowledgment. It was no small task to under- 
 take to feed between eight and ten thousand hungry men. 
 The eating tents were protected by a detail of Companies 
 A and F of the First Regiment, C. N. G., in command of 
 Captain "Westphal and Lieutenant Hotchkiss. 
 
 The following circular issued by the Collation Com- 
 mittee was generously responded to by over five hundred 
 families, and many of our leading merchants. 
 
 To tJie Ladies of Hartford: 
 
 Tlie 17th of September has been designated as the day for the 
 removal of the battle flags of the Connecticut regiments from the 
 Arsenal to the new Capitol, tlieir final resting-iilace. 
 
THE COLLATION. DQ 
 
 The veteran soldiers and sailors of the State, and their comrades 
 from other States now residents of Connecticut, have been invited 
 to take part in this ceremony, and it is estimated that at least G,000 
 will be present on that occasion. 
 
 The citizens of Hartford having extended the hospitality of the 
 city to these veterans, find it necessary to call upon the ladies for 
 assistance, and appeal to your patriotism and hospitality that they 
 may be generously provided for. 
 
 The enclosed card indicates the kind of provisions that -will be 
 required. (Cold meats of all kinds, sandwiches, and small cakes.) 
 
 If you arc willing to assist us in this undertaking, please indicate 
 opposite the article named on the enclosed card the quantity that 
 you will donate, and return the card by mail on or before the 9th 
 day of September. 
 
 All articles donated will be called for at your residence before 9 
 A.M., on the 17th instant. 
 
 If cakes are contributed they should not be frosted, and need not 
 exceed three or four inches in diameter. 
 
 Leandek TIall, I For the 
 L. A. Dickinson, \ Committee. 
 
 A list of tlie coiitrilnttors to tlie collation served on 
 the park to the veterans is as follows : 
 
 Allen, Mrs. S. W. Allyn Street House. Bullen, Jlrs. W. F. 
 
 Andross, M. P. Boynton, Mrs. L. Bailey, Mrs. T. W. 
 
 Allen, ]\[rs. \\. D. Beach, Jlrs. J. W. Bartlett, Mrs. D. E. 
 
 Amidon, Mrs. F. S. Beale, P. M. Barnard, Mrs. HenrJ^ 
 
 Atkins, Mrs. C. A. Burbank, Mrs. J. B. Bosworth, G. E. 
 
 Abel, Mrs. Bonnet, ]\Irs. J. G. Best, Mrs. Geor2:e. 
 
 Allen, Mrs. Charles. Blakeslee, Mrs. H. E. Barrows, Mrs. S. W. 
 
 Ashmead, ]\Irs. Jas. IT. Beach, IMrs. George. Bacon, M. M. 
 
 Abbott, Mrs. J. C. Brainard, Mrs. J. P. Bingham, Mrs. W. A. 
 
 Atkins, Mrs. C. A., Jr. Bodge, C. W. Bidwell, Mrs. H. 
 
 Andrews, Mrs. Wm. O. Bates, Mrs. J. J). Bacon, S. E. 
 
 Abbe, Mrs. B. R. Bates, Mrs. George D. Burr, Mrs. A. E. 
 
 Asylum. Deaf & Dumb. Bunnell, Mrs. A. ]M. Brownell, ]V[. B. 
 
 Alexander, Mrs. G. W. Brainard, L. Burton, ]\Irs. John. 
 
 Ahern. IMrs. John. Brewer, IVTrs. S. E. Blinn, ]\Irs. J. E. 
 
 Andrews, S. J. Bollcs. Mrs. J. G. Benedict, INIrs. S. A. 
 
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 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Bolton, Mrs. J. II., Jr. 
 Biirus, Miss j\Iury. 
 Boynton, S. E. 
 Barrows, IMrs. F. F. 
 Bulkcley, Mrs. Wm. II. 
 Burnliam, Mrs. C. 
 Bosworth, Mrs. E. II. 
 Barrows, Mrs. A. W. 
 Boardman, ]Mrs. Wm. 
 Baird, :Mrs. J. G. 
 Bcldeu, IMrs. S. 
 Brooks, D. S. 
 Browu, ]Mrs. Cord'laE. 
 Burdon, IMrs. J. 
 Barrows, T>Irs. W. E. 
 Bubser, Mrs. R. 
 Brown, Mrs. R. W. 
 Burnham, Mrs. J. D. 
 Brocklesby, IMrs. John. 
 Bronson, IMrs. E. M. 
 Burke, IMrs. A. L. 
 Bartholomew, 
 
 ]Mrs. George M. 
 Bolter, IMrs. James. 
 Beach, John. 
 Bryant, Jlrs. J. S. 
 Barber, IMrs. G. P. 
 Billings, Mrs. E. E. 
 Bill, ilrs. R. C. 
 Benjamin, George. 
 Belknap, L. 
 Billings, Mrs. H. E. 
 Beckwith, Mrs. H. C. 
 Barker, Mrs. J. C. 
 Bridgman, F. B. 
 Bennett, Mrs. Dr. 
 Bissell, Mrs. Hiram. 
 Bacon, Mrs. A. A. 
 Barbour, Mrs. Lucius. 
 Bradley, IMrs. Wm. H. 
 Bolles, Mrs. Wm. 
 
 Barbour, Mrs. J. L. 
 Barnes, Mrs. E. P. 
 Backmayer, Mrs. J. 
 BuHvley, L. S. 
 Brace, J^Irs. T. K. 
 Bill, Mrs. A. H. 
 Colston, Mrs. T. 
 Coles, Mrs. S. W. 
 Collins, Misses. 
 Colt, Mrs. Samuel. 
 Cowen, S. S. 
 Collins, IMrs. J. S. 
 Chandler, George P. 
 Chapin, Mrs. C. V. 
 Cone, Mrs. J. ^Y. 
 Cooley, Mrs. C. 11. ■ 
 Cushman, Mrs. D. 
 Case, Mrs. Uriah. 
 Clark, Mrs. A. S. 
 Collins, IMrs. Wm. 
 Chaffer, :Mrs. J. II. 
 Carpenter. Miss. 
 Cooper, Mrs. G. A. 
 Counover, Wm. 
 Chamberlain, ^Irs.S.D. 
 Camp, Mrs. D. C. 
 Clark, IMary E. 
 Crawford, Mrs. E. E. 
 Closson, jMrs. O. 
 Clark, Mrs. W, B. 
 Carey, Mrs. F. A. 
 Canwell, Mrs. J. G. 
 Cook, Mrs. Elizur. 
 Conklin, JMrs. L. 
 Chapin, Mrs. C. A. 
 Case, Mrs. O. D. 
 Cowles, W. A. 
 Corbin, Mrs. D. P. 
 Crane, Mrs. Wm. R. 
 Chittengen, G. M. 
 Conklin, Mrs. H. W. 
 
 Cone, ]Mrs. W. R. 
 Clapp, Mrs. Caleb. 
 Citizens Grocery. 
 Carey, Mrs. George B. 
 Covey, L. B. 
 Colt, Mrs. Elisha. 
 Cronest, Frederick. 
 Cook, Mrs. A. S. 
 Corning, Mrs J. B. 
 Childs,'']Mrs. T. S. 
 Corning, IMrs. G. W. 
 Carter, Mrs, F. B. 
 Chamberlain, 
 
 Mrs. W. P, 
 Case, Mrs. E. M. 
 Carpenter, Josephine. 
 Clark, Mrs. E. H. 
 Clark, Mrs. H H. 
 D wight. H. C. 
 Daniels, Mrs. L. 
 Dickenson, Mrs. L. A. 
 Dodd, IMrs. Wm. H. 
 Dalton, Mrs. M. A. 
 Daggett, Mrs. W. II. II. 
 Dimock, IMrs. J. W. 
 Doty, Mrs.J.H.&A.H. 
 Dewey, Mrs. D. S. 
 Day, Mrs. F. H. 
 Dickenson, Mrs. A. A. 
 Dow, ]Mrs. J. ]M. 
 Dewey, Mrs. Geo. A. 
 Daniels, J. G. 
 Di.xon, Miss. 
 Douglass, Mrs. F. D. 
 Davis, IMrs. C. F. 
 Davis, IMrs. I. B. 
 Douthwaite,Mrs.R. H. 
 Davenport, Mrs. 
 DeLamater, IMrs. R. S. 
 Emmons, C. H. 
 Emerson, Irving. 
 
THE COLLATION. 
 
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 Ensign, Mrs. Ileniy. 
 Ellis^ Mrs. A. L. 
 Engel, David. 
 Eadie, Mrs. James. 
 Elliot, C. A. 
 Enders, Mrs. T. O. 
 Ellsworth, H. S. 
 Eaton, Mrs. 
 Embler, Mrs. A. H. 
 Ellsworth, Mrs. T. 
 Elmore, S. E. 
 Foster, Mrs. 
 Fuller, Mrs. E. G. 
 Flatterly, K. F. 
 Flynn, Mrs. J. 
 Fessenden, E. 
 Fairman, Mrs. J. 
 Foote, Mrs. Charles. 
 Fisher, Mrs. Chas. R. 
 Fiege, Mrs. A. F. 
 FeHowes, Mrs. C. E. 
 Fox, Mrs. Dudley. 
 Freeman, Mrs. H. 
 Francis, Mrs. E. M. 
 Ford, Mrs. C. B. 
 Frisbie, Mrs. I. E. 
 Foster, Mrs. F. R., Jr. 
 Fowler, IMrs. D. S. 
 Francis, Mrs. D. D. 
 Freeman, Mrs. F. D. 
 Fish, C. D., Jr. 
 Fenton. Mrs. A. R. 
 Fuller, Hattie E. 
 Forbes, :Mrs. W. L. 
 Fletcher, Mrs. W. J. 
 Fowler, Miss Alice. 
 Farnham, Mrs. E. B. 
 Filley, Mrs. J. H. 
 Giant, Mrs. Nancy. 
 Gardner, Mrs. E. 
 Gilbert, Mrs. 
 
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 Goodrich, Mrs. C. A. 
 Green, Mrs. A. M. 
 Geer, Mrs. E. II. 
 Graham, Mrs. J. 
 Goodale, Tootle. 
 Goodrich, Mrs. Stepb. 
 Greenleaf,Mrs.Wm.H. 
 George, Mrs. S. 
 Gilnian, Mrs. J. S. 
 Goodman, Mrs. E. 
 Goodman, Mrs. J. E. 
 Gage, Mrs. W. L. 
 Gilman, Mrs. Julius. 
 Gates, L. C. 
 Gridley, Mrs. E. 
 Grant, Mrs. J. M. 
 Gillette, Mrs. A. B. 
 Graves, Mrs. M. W. 
 Gillette, Mrs. C. S. 
 Goodrich, Grade. 
 Gatling, Mrs. R. J. 
 Gross,^Mrs. C. E. 
 Glover, Mrs. Thomas. 
 Gillette, Mrs. A. H. 
 Goodrich, Mrs. W. II. 
 Griswold, Mrs. W. R. 
 Hcndee, Mrs. L. J. 
 Hitchcock, Mrs. L. A. 
 Hammond, Mrs. A. G. 
 Harrington, Mrs. H. C. 
 Holton, Mrs. W. J. 
 Humphrey, Mrs. P. L. 
 Hamersley, Wm. 
 Hodge, Mrs. M. 
 Himt, Mrs. 
 Hills, Mrs. John R. 
 Hellman, L. 
 Hoi lister, Mrs. J. 
 Hitchcock, ]\Irs. S. M. 
 Haight, Mrs. 'SI. 
 Hitchcock, Mrs. H. P. 
 
 Hurlburt, Mrs. A. M. 
 Hough, Mrs. C. W. 
 Hickmott, Mrs. 
 Haynes, Mrs. C. W. 
 Hollister, Mrs. C. W. 
 Hutchinson, Mrs. H.W. 
 Hawley, Mrs. R. D. 
 Hartman, Mrs. Chas. 
 Hilton, Mrs. W. F. 
 Hunt, E. K. 
 Hart, Mrs. E. D. 
 Henny, Mrs. John. 
 Hooker, ]Mrs. B. E. 
 House, Mrs. W. W. 
 Hebard, Mrs. Chester. 
 Haniss, Miss M. 
 Hubbard, Mrs. J. A. 
 Higgs, Mrs. W. H. 
 Higgins, Mrs. John E. 
 Hawley, JMrs. G. B. 
 Hawkins, Mrs. W. B. 
 Harris, L. H. 
 House, Mrs. E. H. 
 Heublein, Mrs. G. F. 
 Hills, Mrs. Ellery. 
 Holbrook, Mrs. C. M. 
 Hawley, Mrs. J. R. 
 Hussey, Mrs. 
 Hastings, Mrs. P. M, 
 Hall, Mrs. Henry J. 
 Hyde, Mrs. J. A. 
 Hodge, J. A. 
 Hurd, Mrs. Wm. S. 
 Holt, Ellsworth & Co. 
 Hills, A. C. 
 Houston, jMrs. A. 
 Hamilton, Mrs. T. 
 Ives, Mrs. Theron. 
 Jewell,' ]\Irs. P. 
 Johnson, Mrs. G. 
 John-son, Mrs. C. 
 
74 
 
 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Jones, Mrs. C. H. 
 Johnson, Mrs. Dr. 
 Jarvis, Mrs. Geo. C. 
 Jaucb, Caspar. 
 James, Mrs. W. S. 
 Johnson, Mrs. G. M. 
 Jewell, Mrs. Marshall. 
 Johnson, Mrs. F. L. 
 Judd, Mrs. J. F. 
 Jewell, L. B. 
 Johnson, J. D. 
 Kellogg, Mrs. E. C. 
 Kellogg, F. S. 
 Keep, Mrs. J. R. 
 Kelley, Mrs. 
 King, Mrs. "W. H. 
 Kimball, Mrs. D. M. 
 Kilbourne, Mrs. E. B. 
 Kellogg, ]\rrs. S. B. 
 Keene, Mrs. W. II. 
 Kenyon, IMrs. E. L. 
 Kellogg, Mrs. E. C. 
 Lord, Mrs. H. 
 Landfier, Miss L. L. 
 Lamb, Mrs. W. A. 
 Lyman, Mrs. O. B. 
 Loomis, W. A. 
 Lester, Mrs. Geo. "W. 
 Lane, Mrs. E. H. 
 Lockwood, Mrs. W. H. 
 Lyman, Mrs. C. G. 
 Lane, Dr. D. E. 
 Loomis, Pascal. 
 Loomis, Mrs. 
 Lloyd, Miss A. P 
 Lu.x. Mrs. P. 
 Levy, Louis. 
 Lord, ]\Irs. G. F. 
 Lamed, Amos. 
 Langdon, ^Y. TV. 
 Merritt, Mrs. G. S. 
 
 Mason, Mrs. Wm. 
 Mellen, Mrs. M. 
 McManus, Mrs. Dr. J. 
 Morse, Mrs. A. 
 Moore, Mrs. Robert. 
 Marvel, Mrs. J. E. 
 McClay, John & Son. 
 Miller, Mrs. J. C. 
 Moodey, Mrs. L. B. 
 Mcintosh, Mrs. C. L. 
 Merritt, Mrs. Edwin. 
 Mitchell, Mrs. J. H. 
 Maehl, Mrs. George. 
 Meissner, F. 
 McChmie, Mrs. Thos. 
 Morgan, Mrs. N. PI. 
 McKeoun, ]\Irs. W. 
 Meafoy, Mrs. F. 
 Morgan, Mrs. W. G. 
 Moseley, Mrs. G. W. 
 Moran, D. B. 
 Marston, S. 
 Mather, Mrs. H. E. 
 
 :RI , Mrs. F. D. 
 
 Moseley, Mrs. D. B. 
 Moore, Mrs. N. H. 
 Morris, Mrs. J. E. 
 Marden, Mrs. C. W. 
 Martin, Mrs. G. E. 
 Newton, ]\Irs. J. P. 
 Nevers, Mrs. P. 
 Key, Mrs. J. M. 
 Newton, Mrs. D. E. 
 Newton, Mrs. P. S. 
 Nichols, Mrs. ^Y. F. 
 Olmsted, Mrs. John. 
 Overand, Mrs. J. W. 
 Oliver, Mrs. E. 
 Olmstead, Mrs. W. H. 
 Olmstead, Mrs. H. K. 
 Pratt, Mrs. F. A. 
 
 Phipps, Mrs. E. D. 
 Post, Mrs. C. A. 
 Prouty, Mrs. 
 Pitkin, Mrs. A. B. 
 Porter, Mrs. T. D. 
 Patton, Mrs. A. A. 
 Peck, Miss C. C. 
 Patterson, Mrs. J. L. 
 Prior, Mrs. 51. M. 
 Preston, J. S. 
 Phillips, Mrs. D. 
 . Pease, Mrs. Henry. 
 Pease, Mrs. J. A. 
 Pebbles, Mrs. F. 
 Primus, H. 
 Palmer, Mrs. John C. 
 Perry, Mrs. F. B. 
 Perkins, Mrs. G. S. 
 Penfield, Mrs. Daniel. 
 Prouty, Mrs. B. F. 
 Prentice, C. H. 
 Penrose, Mrs. TVm. 
 Phelps, Antoinette B. 
 Parsons, Mrs. E. "W. 
 Parsons, Mrs. Wm. 
 Perry, Mrs. A. D. 
 Pond, Mrs. W. H. 
 Pelton, Mrs. Wm. N. 
 Parkhurst, Mrs. E. G. 
 Porter, JMrs. J. T. 
 Patten, H. E. 
 Porter, ]\Irs. 
 Perkins, Mrs. H. A. 
 Pease, Louie C. 
 Pratt, Miss Esthej-. 
 Quinn, Mrs. J. S. 
 Robertson, Mrs. W. H. 
 Redfield, Mrs. H. A. 
 Rothchild, ^Irs. R. 
 Rodgers, Mrs. Wm. L. 
 Rice^ 3Irs. M. A. 
 
THE COLLATION. 
 
 75 
 
 Root, Mrs. George W. 
 Russ, Mrs. A. J. 
 Riley, Mrs. P. S. 
 Rockwell, Mrs. F. C. 
 Reisel, Mrs. G. P. 
 Russell, Mrs. T. W. 
 Rhodes, Chauncey. 
 Russell, Mrs. H. T. 
 Reed, Mrs. R. P. 
 Richardson, L. E. 
 Rowell, II. 
 Robinson, C. K. 
 Shepherd, ]Mrs. G. R. 
 Spencer, Mrs. C. 
 Smith, Mrs. J. N. 
 Seymour, A. W. 
 Steele, Mrs. Thomas. 
 Storrs, Mrs. J. L. 
 Steadman, Mrs. F. A. 
 Spencer, Mrs. C. M. 
 Skinner, Mrs. Thomas. 
 Stern, Abram. 
 Schneider, P. F. 
 Solly, Mrs. Geo. A. 
 Sprague, Mrs. E. L. 
 Swift, Rowland. 
 Smith, Mrs. J. Gorton. 
 Snow, Mrs. A. F. 
 Simmons, Mrs. W. G. 
 Seymour, Miss E. 
 Spencer, Mrs. E. A. 
 StandclifTe, Mrs. 
 Scripture, Mrs. James. 
 Sperry, Mrs. H. T. 
 Schneider, Christian. 
 Smith, Mrs. L, D, 
 Stocker, ]\Irs. 
 Smyth, Mrs. J. S. 
 Smith, Mrs. C. G. 
 Smith, Mrs. M. D. 
 Sawtelle, M. G. 
 
 Storrs, Mrs. Z. A. 
 Stoughton, Mrs. D. G. 
 Seymour, Mrs. Albert. 
 Seidler, Mrs. Geo. N. 
 Steele, C. J. 
 Skilton, D. W. C. 
 Storrs, Mrs. H. H. 
 Smith, H. F. 
 Squires, Mrs. A. 
 Stowe, II. B. 
 Squires, E. 
 Sweet, Mrs. C. D. 
 Stevens, Mrs. J. R. 
 Stevens, Mrs. K B. 
 Stone, Mrs. E. C. 
 Spencer, Mrs. Chas. 
 Sawtelle, Mrs. A. H. 
 Smith, Mis. M. A. 
 Strong, Mrs. E. 
 Seyms, ]Mrs. L. B. 
 Smith, Mrs. H. H. 
 Smith, Mrs. A. 
 Sage, Mrs. A. J. 
 Stebbins, Mrs. L. 
 Terry, Mrs. O. G. 
 Towner, D. F. 
 Thompson, Mrs. F. A. 
 Taintor, James U. 
 Thayer, Mrs. F. J. 
 Talcott, Mrs. A. K. 
 Tolhurst. W. J. 
 Taylor, IMrs. L. C. 
 Trumbull, Mrs. Jas. P. 
 Tracy, J. F. 
 Taintor, Mrs. H. E. 
 Towne, Mrs. J. H., Jr. 
 Tiffany, Mrs. E. D. 
 Tucker, J. D. 
 Tryou, IVIrs. J. S. 
 Tilden, IMrs. L. D. 
 Tuller, Mrs. G. AY. 
 
 Thompson, John. 
 Tuttle, Mrs. S. E. 
 Ufford, ]Mrs. II. J. 
 Vaughn, Jlrs. W. 
 Valentine, Mrs. H. E. 
 Vail, Mrs. T. J. 
 Vienna Bakery. 
 Wilson, Mvs. W. G. 
 Warburton House. 
 Whitmore, i\Irs. J. II. 
 White, Mrs. F. W. 
 Whitney, G. F. 
 Woodford, Mrs. D. R. 
 Wendell, Mrs. J. L. 
 Williams, Mrs. J. W. 
 Wilcox, Miss K.'E. 
 White, Mrs. C. J. 
 Wadsworth, 
 
 Mrs. Theron. 
 White, Mrs. F. A. 
 Williams, Mrs. E. W. 
 Wickham, Mrs. II. J. 
 Wells, Mrs. S. G. 
 Wilcox, Mrs. W. S. 
 Ward, Mrs. A. M. 
 Worthington, 
 
 Mrs. M. A. 
 Whitou, Mrs. P. 
 White, Mrs. I. 
 Welles, Mrs. John S. 
 Wilsey, Miss. 
 Wordworth,Mrs.H. G. 
 Webb, Mrs. B. H. 
 Wells, Mrs. Oswin. 
 Wing, Mrs. O. F. 
 Whitney, Mrs. Ed. P. 
 Wood, Mrs. Abbic A. 
 Wright, Mrs. J. E. 
 Welch, Mrs. H. L. 
 W. E. H. 
 Welles, Mrs. L. T. 
 
76 HISTORY OF BATTLK-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Wallace, Mrs. F. A. Waite, ]\Irs. J. N. Williams, Mrs. C. D. 
 
 Welles, Mrs. B. F. Wbitmorc, W. L. Woolcy, Mrs. G. H. 
 
 Wheeler, Mrs. J. K. Wclton, Mrs. H. A. Woods, G. H. 
 
 Woodin. Mrs. C. W. Whiting, Mrs. G. S. White & Litchfield. 
 
 Windsor, Mrs. J. B. Woodhouse, Young, Mrs. L. J. 
 
 Wadsworth, Mrs. Oliver. Youug, Mrs. W. D. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah. Scott, Mrs. Dr. 0. W. 
 
 DONATIONS OF FLOWETIS. 
 
 Mrs. M. A. Gillette, Mrs. Sternberg (one very large 
 pyramidal bouquet), Mrs. Marshall Jewell, Mrs. E. M. 
 Clark, Mrs. Burbauk, Mrs. H. R. Gridley, Mrs. Pliny 
 Jewell (twelve large bouquets), Mrs. E. M. Francis, Mrs. 
 Beger, Mrs. C. Clapp, Mrs. Franklin Chamberlin, Mrs. 
 Olmstead, Mrs. A. Fuller, Mrs. Henry Palmer, Mrs. Tefft, 
 Mrs. J. F. Burns (seven bouquets), Mrs. Albert Seymour, 
 Mrs. James Eadie, Mrs. E. G. Parkhurst, Mrs. George E. 
 Ward (three bouquets), Mrs. Ellen M. Case, Mrs. N. B. 
 Stevens, Mrs. J. C. Bryant, Mrs. Samuel Colt (twelve bou- 
 quets), Mrs. McFarland (thirteen bouquets), Mrs. C. M. 
 Pond, Mrs. Porter Whiton, Mrs. B. E. Hill, Mrs. L. 
 Oatman, Mrs. J. Goodnow, Mrs. H. C. Havens, Mrs. E. 
 Case (Farmington), Mrs. Thomas Welles (Wethersfield), 
 Mrs. George W. Mosely, Mrs. L. T. Wells, Mrs. H. Palmer, 
 Mrs. Samuel Mamilton, Mrs. Webb Smith, INlrs. F. Knapp, 
 Mrs. P. :M. Hastings, Mrs. J. B. Pierce, Mrs. R. Grant, 
 Mrs. J. Warren, Mrs. J. Stevens. 
 
 Mrs. ]\Iary A. Danks, Tariffville, whose husl)and was 
 wounded in front of Petersburg, sent twenty-five bunches 
 of flowers. 
 
 The committee found that some bouquets and flowers 
 were placed upon the tables by donors whose names 
 could not be obtained. 
 
THE COLLATION. 
 
 77 
 
 DONATIONS BY MERCHANTS. 
 
 Allen «t Blancliard, 50 pounds coffee; J. C. Ayrcs, 
 10 pounds coffee; W. G. Morgan, 12 pounds coffee ; A. 
 B. Gillette, 50 pounds coffee; Duggan & Quinn, 10 pounds 
 coffee; Boston store, 1 ham, lialf barrel pickcls ; H.J. 
 Johnson, 16 hams ; Sherman & Cook, 25 pounds corned 
 beef; G. Winslow, 100 jmunds corned beef; Filley Brothers, 
 20 pounds corned beef; Foster & Co., 5 hams; H. R. 
 Gi'idley, half barrel tongues; Adams & Co., 1 case corned 
 beef; Parks & Savage, 2 barrels crackers, Casper Jauch, 
 2 barrels bread; Fox & Co., GO pounds cheese; H. A. 
 Case, 20 pounds cheese; Honiss & Co., oysters; J. S. 
 Stannard, oysters ; A. Wilson, turkey ; Mason Smith, 
 chickens ; Spring Broook comi)auy, 1 ton of ice ; Pat 
 Clifford, 1 ton of ice ; Mr. Hellman, 1 barrel doughnuts ; 
 A. Church loaned 1,000 feet rope; J. Lane loaned 25 
 water barrels ; R. D. Hawley loaned 170 water pails and 
 24 large baskets ; Peter Lux loaned chairs and cook stove; 
 D. S. Brooks loaned one 60-galloii boiler. 
 The provisions used ou the tables are classified as follows : 
 Tongue, ...... 700 pounds. 
 
 . 3,500 " 
 
 . 3,ooa " 
 
 500 " 
 
 Corned beef, . 
 Ilam, 
 Roast beef, 
 
 Total of meats, 
 Sandwiches, 
 Doughnuts, 
 Biscuit, 
 Small cakes. 
 Loaves of cake. 
 Peaches, 
 Grapes, 
 
 Watermelons, . 
 Coffee, 
 Milk, 
 
 . 6,700 " 
 . 7,000 
 . 12,000 
 . 15,000 
 . 6,000 
 
 100 
 
 50 baskets. 
 50 boxes. 
 
 600 
 . 3,200 gallons. 
 
 200 " 
 
HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY 
 
 Sugar, 
 
 Pickles, 
 
 Cheese, 
 
 Loaves of bread, 
 
 Eggs to clear coffee, 
 
 Plates, cups, etc., 
 
 900 pounds. 
 2 barrels. 
 300 pounds. 
 200 
 
 50 dozen. 
 16,000 pieces. 
 
 A large number of ladies volunteered tlieir services as 
 waitresses, and the kindly manner in which they served 
 testified to the fact that the veterans were, as ev^r, gratefully 
 remembered by them. 
 
 After the veterans had finished eating at tlie prepared 
 collation, the committee let the hungry crowd in, and there 
 was a general clearing out of the whole stock of provi- 
 sions. Over 10,000 persons were fed. 
 
THE DECOEATIONS. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 [From Uartford Daily Times.] 
 
 "AT" EVER before has Hartford been so profusely dec- 
 1 il orated. Hardly a house or store but what was 
 enveloped in flags. Festoons, wreaths, bunting, eagles, 
 stars and stripes were seen on every side. Some of them 
 were most tastefully arranged. 
 
 THE ARSENAL. 
 
 The State Arsenal was worth seeing. It was elegantly 
 decorated with American flags and the State colors. 
 Prominent were several worn-out regimental flags carried 
 for years by the militia of the State. On the front face 
 was a large shield of flags, and in front of it Miss Carrie 
 E. Bugbey, daughter of George Bugbey, the armorer at 
 the Arsenal, and the first soldier from Connecticut who 
 was wounded, stood dressed as a Goddess of Liberty. 
 On one side stood a sailor and on the other a soldier, 
 making one of the prettiest living tableaux of the day. 
 Another daughter (Ella) of Mr. Bugbey stood in the 
 dome of the Arsenal, dressed in white, and waving a flag. 
 The soldiers greeted this scene with loud cheers all along 
 the line. 
 
80 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 SOUTH GREEN PYRAMID. 
 
 The pyramid at the South Green, of children, was one 
 of the features of the parade. The pyramid was covered 
 with red, white, and blue, and the seats with white, reach- 
 ing up twenty-five feet. Over a hundred and thirty little 
 girls, with red, white, and blue sashes, were tastefully 
 grouped in tiers by Mrs. Richard Jarvis, Miss Curtis, and 
 other ladies of the South End. The Asylum Hill Cadets 
 stood watch over the fair array. It formed a beautiful 
 and interesting sight, and was one of the leading features 
 of the day. (See illustration.) 
 
 THE ARCHES. 
 
 Of these there were four: three on Main street and one 
 on Washington street. The large arch which spans Main 
 street from the City Hall to the Phcenix block was 29 feet 
 from the street to the lower part of the center of the 
 circle. The uprights on each side were covered with diag- 
 onal strips of red, white, and blue, over which was a lat- 
 tice-work of evergreens. On the top of these were large 
 eagles, surrounded by flags. In the centre of the arch 
 was a large banner with the picture of a figure of Victory 
 crowning a cluster of State and national flags with laurel 
 wreaths. On each side were banners bearing the names 
 of the Connecticut regiments, between which were wreaths 
 of evergreen, flowers, and stars, and underneath was a 
 larger one with the names of the battles in which the reg- 
 iments took part, viz.: Appomattox Court House, At- 
 lanta, Antietam, Auburn, Bull Run, Bermuda Hundred, 
 Bolivar Heights, Baton Rouge, Berryville, Bisland, Ben- 
 tonville, Bristol Station, Blackburn's Ford, Boydton Plank- 
 road, Chester Station, Chapin's Farm, Cold Harbor, Chack- 
 aloo Station, Cedar Creek, Chancellorsville, Cedar Mount' 
 ain, Charles City Road, Chantilly, Cassville, Chesterford, 
 
THE DECORATIONS. 81 
 
 Gulps Farm, Deep Run, Darby town Road, Deep Bottom, 
 Drury's Bluff, Dallas, Dunn's Lake, Edenton Road, Fred- 
 ericksburg, Forts Fisher, Pulaski, Eager, Darling, Harri- 
 son, Wagner, and Gregg, Fallingwater, Four-Mile Creek, 
 Fisher's Hill, Gaines' Mill, Golden Hill, Georgia Landing, 
 Gettysburg, Harrisburg, Hanover Court House, Harper's 
 Farm, High Bridge, Hatcher's Run, L-ish Bend, James 
 Island, John Island, Johnson's Plantation, Kelly's Ford, 
 Kinston, Kerneyville, Kenesaw Mountain, Kingston, Lost 
 Mountain, Lynchburg, Laurel Hill, Laurel Hill Church, 
 Meadow Bridge, Morris Island, Marietta, Malvern Hill, 
 Montietli Station, Mansurd, Morton's Ford, Newmarket 
 Road, Near Petersburg, Near Richmond, Newburn, 
 Olustee, Orange Court House, Pocataligo, Peach Tree 
 Creek, Piedmont, Port Hudson, Proctor's Creek, Patter- 
 sonville. Port Republic, Petersburg, Providence Church 
 Road, Plymouth, Spottsylvania, Sweat House Creek, Tol- 
 opotoma, Welaka and Saunders, Winchester, Woodstock, 
 Walthaid Junction, Whitehall, Waterford, Wilderness. 
 All of this was surmounted by a trophy of flags and an 
 eagle, and the arch was finished with festoons of ever- 
 greens. This arch was erected under the direction of a 
 committee appointed by the City Government, of which 
 Alderman Patrick McGovern was chairman, at an expense 
 of $>390, defrayed by the city. (See illustration.) 
 
 The arch which crosses Main street from the City Hotel 
 was 27 feet in heiglit. It was first covered with red, white, 
 and blue bunting, resting on posts of cypress, each sur- 
 mounted by trophies of flags and an American eagle. On 
 the sides Avere mottoes of welcome to the veterans, soldiers, 
 and sailors, the words surrounding clasped hands. On 
 the arch were the various corps badges, twenty-four in num- 
 ber. The center figure was a sailor nailing a flag to a mast ; 
 
HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 this was also surrounded by flags and furnished witli 
 an eagle. Underneath were wreaths of evergreens and 
 flowers, interspersed with streamers of all colors and flags 
 of all nations. (See illustration.) 
 
 At Cheney block another arch of similar size crossed to 
 Roberts' Opera House. This was covered with red, white, 
 and blue, and wound with evergreens. On the sides were 
 banners with the coat of arms of the city and State ; and 
 in the center was a large shield of the United States, the 
 State and city arms combined. Festoons and wreaths of 
 evergreens and flags finished this arch. (See illustration.) 
 
 On Washington street an arch spanned the street from 
 the residence of Morgan G. Bulkeley and that of Leverett 
 Brainard. The arch was covered with the national colors, 
 and around it was woven a ribbon on which the names of 
 the honored dead were painted as follows: Fowler, Camp, 
 Merwin, Osborne, Converse, Kingsbury, Peck, Burpee, 
 Blake, Holcomb, Kellogg, Ward, Stedman, Sedgwick, 
 Lyons, Mansfield, Foote, Chatfield, Eussell, Button. The 
 arch was surmounted by a trophy of drums, muskets, 
 swords, flags, and other military emblems, and under- 
 neath were festoons of flags, streamers, and flowers, all 
 beautifully arranged. (See illustration.) 
 
 As the procession passed the residence of Mr. William 
 W. House, on Washington street, opposite General William 
 H. Bulkeley 's, two little girls stood on the posts at either 
 side of the gateway. They were both dressed in white, 
 and little American flags were pinned all over their 
 dresses. In her right hand each held and waved a larger 
 American flag, in tlic left each held a bouquet of flowers. 
 They looked very prettily, and attracted great attention 
 from the passers-by. 
 
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company's Buii.i)in(i 
 
THE DECORATIONS. 85 
 
 ON MAIN STREET. 
 
 The most profuse and elaborate decorations were on 
 Main street. Prominent among these was the City flaU. 
 Tills Ijuilding was completely envclo[)ed in folds of red, 
 white, and l)lue, from the top of the dome, on which 
 Madame Justice stands, to the ground. The windows 
 were draped with flags of America, England, Ireland, Ger- 
 many, France, and other nations. In front was a largo 
 portrait of Washington, and under it a banner bearing the 
 
 words : 
 
 "Welcome to Our Honored Guests." 
 
 This decoration was under the special direcHon of Al- 
 derman J. N. B. Stevens and Councilmcn Hiram Bacterson 
 and L. T. Frisbie, who are to be complimented for the 
 very handsome display. 
 
 The Connecticut Mutual building was tastefully deco- 
 rated with folds of bunting, held in festoons by stars and 
 eagles. Across the front were rows of corps badges and 
 the shields of all nations. Banners and semi-circles of 
 flags were draped under the windows, and the tops of the 
 towers were crowned with flags. A special artist from 
 Boston, Mr. Beale, was engaged under contract, paid by 
 subscription of the clerks and occupants of the building. 
 
 The Metropolitan block on Main street also attracted 
 much attention for the beauty of its decorations, which 
 consisted of the flags of all nations and draperies of red, 
 white, and blue. 
 
 The City Hotel was draped from top to bottom with folds 
 of the national colors. A large painting of the Goddess 
 of Liberty hung in the center, and from it fell festoons of 
 red, white, and Iduo bunting. The two portico balconies 
 were covered with flags, and the pillars wound with wreaths 
 of evergreens. Across the front of each was a large arch 
 
8G HISTORY OF BATTLE- FLAG DAY. 
 
 of red, white, and blue flowers, one saying "Welcome," 
 and the other "Veterans," making a very tasteful display. 
 Under one of these little Mabel Taylor, daughter of Mr. 
 Taylor, proprietor of the hotel, stood dressed as a Goddess 
 of Liberty, and waving a miniature flag. This was one of 
 the most tasteful displays on the street. 
 
 The Times office was decorated with the figure of Lib- 
 erty, standing eight feet high, under a canopy of red, 
 white, and blue, which was festooned with wreaths of lau- 
 rel, the whole crowned with a large eagle. Above this 
 rose a large shield of flags, and from the roof hung 
 streamer^of the flags of all nations. Two mottoes were 
 shown on the sides of the Liberty figure, one bearing the 
 
 inscription : 
 
 "The only arms to-day — open arms." 
 
 and the other: 
 
 "The End Crowns the Work." 
 
 At the base of the figure were wreaths of evergreens 
 and large clusters of fern plants. 
 
 The post-office was decorated with folds of red, white, 
 and blue, interspersed with corps badges and inscriptions 
 of welcome. 
 
 The office of Dr. N. Mayer and I. Altman's was finely 
 decorated. There was a large crimson banner, having in 
 gold letters the words: 
 
 " Through battle-smoke and prison pen 
 You've brought your flag, ye Sixteenth men." 
 
 Under this, on a blue banner, were the words: 
 " Hallowed by sacrifice ye come," 
 also in large golden letters. Over this was a bust of tlic 
 Goddess of Liberty, and folds of flags, badges, and 
 streamers of bunting intermingled with festoons of ever- 
 greens. On each side of the windows were inscriptions, 
 
THE DECORATIONS. 87 
 
 "Comrades of the Eleventh: Kingsbury, Stedman, Con- 
 verse, Griswold, Lee." 
 
 On the other, "Comrades of the Sixteenth: Beach, Ten- 
 nant, Mauross, Drake, Camp." 
 
 Other decorations on Main street were as follows: Phoi- 
 nix Bank building, covered with streamers. Habenstein, 
 Kelsey & Hitchcock, large flags from the top to the bottom 
 of the building. Trust Company's block, folds of red, 
 white, and blue. Poole's coal ofifice, D. A. Vorce's picture 
 store, and the Security Company, festoons and wreaths. 
 Waite, the photographer, showed the likenesses of Grant, 
 Lincoln, Hawley, and Hubbard. The Atlantic and Pacific 
 telegraph company, flags. The Putnam Phalanx Armory 
 was covered with bunting and the likeness of "Old Put," 
 the latter surrounded by flowers and bearing the motto: 
 '' Pie dared to lead where any dared to follow." 
 
 The ^tna Bank showed the engraved likenesses of sev- 
 eral generals. Robl)ins & Winship, Linus T. Fenn, D. F. 
 Towner, and Douthwaite (flags, star, and knapsack) were 
 also handsomely decorated. Seyms & Co. made a fine 
 show with flags, surrounding stars, and a motto of 
 "Welcome." 
 
 Without going into detail, which is impossiljle, we will 
 make mention of South, the tailor, Krug, Parish & Co's 
 cigar store, Kellogg Brothers, photographers, Appo &; 
 Stevens, Conklin's Bazar (these last two very tasteful), 
 Stevens' market (with a large picture of Sherman's March 
 to the Sea), Sisson's market, DeLamater (photograph of 
 McClellan), the Saunders Brothers, Sisson & Butler (large 
 shield and flag). Best Manufacturing Company (crayon of 
 a number of the C. X. G.), The Home Circle Club, almost 
 concealed amid the wreath of bunting with which the front 
 of the building was covered, and made beautiful by the 
 
HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 array of tropical plants in front ; C. T. Duffy's, Aclkins' 
 real estate oflicc, and Morgan's tea store, — all decorated 
 with flags. Dr. Follett, Burke Brothers, Meyer & Muller, 
 Michael Welch, James C. Britton, Allen^ stables, Wool- 
 ley's stables, Woolley's, and several other places in their 
 vicinity also made fine showings. T. Duffy decorated his 
 building from top to bottom with long lines of national 
 colors. In one window was a fine eagle. Mitchell's cigar 
 store, Baumann & Traut, Clapp's drug store, George 
 Best, W. L. Wright, Bull & Lamb, Peter Lux, McCone's 
 block, John C. ^McManus, Tillinghast's, J. B. Fisher, Gil- 
 lett's market, Rockwell's market, Fred. Brown's block, H. 
 R. Morley, Harbison's block, A. C. Hills, D. Stevens' 
 block, Roswell Brown's residence, and others Avere also 
 notable. Ex-Mayor Robinson showed a motto of " Wel- 
 come," made of red, white, and blue flowers over the gate- 
 way and his residence. The Rev. Mr. McCook's house 
 and the Hotel Capitol were handsome in flags, and red, 
 white, and blue. 
 
 Up Main street we observed the store of G. 0. Sawyer, 
 G. Fox, W. H. Miller (the hitter's block finely decorated) ; 
 T. Steele & Son, J. Wallach, Brown, Thomson & Co., 
 the Opera House, the Bee Hive, Theodore Clark, Fuller & 
 Talcott, Brooks' restaurant, Briggs', Aishberg & Thalman, 
 Stern & ^landclbaum, Mrs. S. H. Allen, a fine show. Mrs. 
 Dwight ]\Iitchell, Dr. Hitchcock, and other residents of 
 apartments and stores, all hung out the national colors. 
 Many in Cheney's block did the same. 
 
 Schroeder, the confectioner, showed good taste. A 
 large pole in front of his store was wound with ever- 
 greens, and surmounted by an eagle. Under this was a 
 trophy of warlike implements, such as guns, cannon-l)alls, 
 swords, etc., surrounding a large stuffed eagle, the latter 
 bearing the inscription : " Let us scream." 
 
THE DECORATIONS. 89 
 
 David Clark, on Main street, south of Charier Oak 
 avenue, made a good show with flags and streamers amid 
 tlie greenery and statuary which surrounded his house. 
 Buckingliam Block, Joseph Hirst, Melrose Brothers, New 
 York bakery, and the Rev. Father Tierney, of St. Peter's 
 church, made a beautiful and tasteful display with flags and 
 streamers; John Windsor with festoons; Mrs. A. Butler 
 with flags ; Dr. Warner with festoons ; the Vienna ))akery, 
 very fine; 11. A. Redfield with flags; Ira Peck with bunt- 
 ing; W. Roberts, D. W. Tracey, Daniel Plynn, Sisson's 
 market, Watrous, the Horse Guard armory, and St. Pat- 
 rick's Society, — all were neatly done. John Flynn, of the 
 Citizen's market, made an excellent display of flags and a 
 shield with the motto "Welcome;" Estlow's cigar store 
 was heavily decorated; Edward Lawler, Griswold's gro- 
 cery, Ely's block, Selliger (with the motto " The Star 
 Spangled Banner Forever Shall Wave"), Peter Chute's, 
 Collins, Moore & Co., the Franklin market, Hawley Kel- 
 logg, and W. T. Lawrence & Son. 
 
 In North Main street were fine displays at George N. 
 Clark's, Barnard's, William Toohy's (flags of all nations), 
 and at most places throughout the street. The Sigourney 
 House was tastefully decorated; 0. P. Case, C. L. Smith, 
 C. D. Nott's livery, Washington market, the Underhill 
 House, Luther Moses (with coat-of-arms in basso relievo) ; 
 Dr. Scott, J. D. Otis, Thomas Pedlow, Dr. Wainwright, 
 A. C. Hotchkiss, Miss Overand's, St. John's Hotel, D. S. 
 Brooks, Pratt & Baldwin's (very fine), Williams & House, 
 and M. A. Bidwell ; George Maehl, W. H. Bradley, R. D, 
 Hawley, and Dr. Russell done out finely. Dr. Russell had 
 an inscription in large letters of evergreen, " Liberty and 
 Union," and over it " Glory to God in the Highest." 
 Ncedham's corner was very showy. 
 
90 HISTORY OF BATTLE- FLACr DAY. 
 
 Further down Dr. IT. C. Bullock had hundreds of tiny 
 flags arran<:;ed in his windows. G. M. Way, Amos Lar- 
 nod, Hills' block (fine with flags of all nations), Fowler, 
 Miller <fe Co., corps badges, and the Grand Army rooms, 
 covering the whole front with corps badges in red and 
 white ; Hart, Merriam & Co. closed their windows with 
 transparencies ; one with the inscription, " The Flag our 
 Nation's Pride ; " the others represented stacks of guns, 
 a naval battle, a cannon, an eagle, and a shield, with the 
 word " Union." Talcott & Post, B. Bliss, Fairman & Miller, 
 Charles W. Ilaynes, R. Ballcrstein, Clark & Smith, Lang- 
 don, Strong & Woodruff, Richard McCloud, Irish and 
 American flags, the New England boot and shoe store — 
 all very finely decorated. D. H. Buell, David Mayer, 
 Brockett, Ernst Schall, with flags, pictures, and statuary ; 
 J. B. Russell, George P. Bissell, McNary, Pond & Childs, 
 and others, making a brilliant display, were among those 
 which attracted general attention. Above Pleasant street, 
 Keney & Roberts, Major Steele, M. Wilcox, the Ely house, 
 and J. V. B. Butler w^cre decorated. The Keney mansion 
 shone resplendent. 
 
 The New England granite works, a group, a female statue 
 of " Victory," with statue soldier on one side and sailor 
 on the other, the pedestal bearing the inscription " The 
 Honored Brave " wreathed with evergreens. Another pe- 
 destal supported a copy of the famous " American soldier " 
 statue exhibited at Philadelphia, and a statue of a minute 
 man of '76. A granite monument had perched upon it an 
 eagle. Over the office door were flags and an eagle in bas 
 relief. 
 
 Dr. Bickford and Dr. Starkweather, Russell & Barnes, 
 Smith, and other houses were decorated with flags and 
 bunting. 
 
THE DECORATIONS. 93 
 
 On Windsor avenne were notable the residences of G. B. 
 Hubbell (very handsome), Silas Chapman and J. B. Burn- 
 ham, finely arranged ; J. M. Adams, J. C. Stockwell, 
 and alderman Dow, all very good ; the Arsenal school, 
 George Sexton, flags and pictures, Teft's greenhouse, Mrs. 
 Moses Cook, Applcton Hillycr, W. H. Cole & Son, Dr. 
 Lane, Charles Avery, H. H. Fitch, Warren Rowley, Dr. 
 Johnson, Phipps & Haskell, C. J. Griswold, Jasper Bolton, 
 G. N. Newton, Charles I. Hills, Ezra Brooks {Hvg large 
 flags), Thomas Adams, F. L, Burr (festoons and flags), 
 H. W. Hutchinson (flags), Mrs. T. Slieldon (good effect), 
 Mr. E. P. Waterman (excellent), Mrs. Pinney (good), 
 Thomas Martin (fine), G. D. Winslow & Co., W. J. May, 
 Mrs. Bacon, Geo. M. Way, C. G. Lincoln, all covered with 
 flags. At A. E. Burr's the house was decorated with large 
 flags and festoons of red, white, and blue ; on the lawn in 
 front was a tent in which was arranged a tableau of little 
 children with Miss Florence L. Burr as a goddess of liberty 
 in the center. The residences of Conrads, the sculptor, 
 Shultas Cooley, and Thomas Martin, were finely decorated. 
 Mrs. Fellowes, George Burr, IVIrs. Gouge, Mrs. Bennett, and 
 others too numerous to mention — the show at the north 
 end as a whole being very fine. 
 
 Engine House No. 1 presented a handsome appearance 
 with festoons of bunting from top to bottom. The resi- 
 dence of L. I. Fiske, Halls's saloon, Goodwin Parker's, at 
 the south end, Avere very prettily dressed. No. 2's Engine 
 House was also prettily fixed up. At John Claffcy's two 
 little girls in red, white, and blue formed a tableau with 
 ])retty surroundings. The house of P. S. Newton, Fred 
 White, John R. Hills, and Mr. Gillette, were all hand- 
 somely trimmed. 
 
 Across Main street was thrown a large banner with the 
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94 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 words " Welcome Veterans," and an immense eagle on 
 both sides. 
 
 ELM STREET. 
 
 The residences of Dr. Mann, Dr. Taft, Lyman Jewell, J. 
 Watson Beach, E. H. Fenn, Professor Bolton, Mrs. Bucll, 
 Professor Huntington, William H. Peck, and Charles W. 
 Johnson, on this street, were all more or less decorated. 
 
 CENTRAL ROW. 
 
 The City Guard armory was handsomely decorated. 
 Merrill's Cafe was covered with the flags of all nations 
 and the national colors. The Brower House was beauti- 
 fully trimmed. Hussey's, Burnham's, and other business 
 places were also adorned with red, white, and blue. 
 
 AMERICAN ROW. 
 
 Tlie Foot Guard armory was elegantly decorated, a great 
 deal of taste having been shown in the arrangements. 
 Ayer's grocery was also decorated. The American hotel 
 and Tremont dining rooms were appropriately adorned 
 with the national colors. 
 
 WASHINGTON STREET. 
 
 The residences of William R. Cone, Mrs. Pliny Jewell, 
 Messrs. Whiting, Hewins, the Rev. Dr. Clark, Mrs. Lynn 
 Adams, Mrs. Lucius Barbour, Morgan Bulkelcy, Colonel 
 L. A. Barbour, General William H. Bulkeley, Leverett 
 Brainard, W. H. House, Governor R. D. Hubbard, were all 
 magnificently decorated. A numl)er of the Chinese com- 
 missioners visited General Bulkeley's and sat under a 
 decoration of tropical plants. 
 
 WETHERSFIELD AVENUE. 
 
 The gateway to Solomon Porter's grounds was hung 
 with flags. Mrs. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Wallach, Charles R. 
 
THE DECORATIONS. 95 
 
 Goodman, Mrs. Ripley, and S. C. Colt, made a fine appear- 
 ance, with flags and festoons of bunting. The windows of 
 C. L. Lincoln, and Franklin Glazier were beautifully 
 draped, and presented an elegant sight. The residence of 
 Mrs, Colonel Colt was tastefully draped, and over the bal- 
 conies hung large Turkish rugs of exquisite work. E. IX 
 Tiffany made a fine display of red, white, and blue, and 
 his son Palmer was able to enjoy the procession, and see 
 many friends from the balcony. 
 
 CONGRESS STREET. 
 
 Jacob Knous made a fine showing at his residence on 
 this street ; J. B. Shultas, George Ellis, and Mr. Jillson, 
 also decorated their residences. 
 
 MORRIS STREET. 
 
 The principal decorators were Miss Fitch, George T. 
 Cowles, Wiley, C. M. Darrow, Tallman, Mrs. E. B. Strong, 
 Dr. Mix, Mrs. Dodd, Farris, Porter Ball, Rowley, Slocum, 
 Lieutenant Ryan, and David Gaines, of the police force, 
 Dr. Bryden, Carey, and Hurlbut — all made fine displays. 
 Three large flags hung across the street. 
 
 HIGH STREET. 
 
 Batterson's Block was the finest feature, on entering 
 this street. It was hung with heavy festoons. Drs. Curtis 
 and Shepherd made excellent displays. The latter had a 
 real live Goddess ot Liberty on exhibition. The Park 
 Central Hotel and the Adams House flags were decorated ; 
 also Messrs. Judd's, Dr. Wilcox, S. S. Ward, E. H. 
 Owen, Lathrop's shop, H. A. Attleton, Theron Ives, Dr. 
 Tiffany, S. C. Dunham, J. W. Dimock, T. Steele, Enoch 
 Roberts, Judge Freeman, E. Hart, I. C. Davis (Goddess 
 
96 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 of Liberty — represented by daughter of E. L. Kciiyon, 
 surrounded by elegant drapery), Dr. Peltier and Dr. Bar- 
 rows. In Dr. Peltier's yard there was a tent with a living 
 tableaux of sailor, soldier, and the Goddess of Liberty. 
 The corps badge of the 126th New York volunteers 
 was also shown in the window, with a portrait of Dr. 
 Peltier's brother, who was killed in the Twenty-first 
 Cavalry of New York. Ciiarles R. Hart and Mr. Parks 
 displayed festoons, Messrs. Spencer & Roberts a fine 
 display of flags and festoons oi bunting. The Rev. Mr. 
 Ford showed bunting and flags in profusion ; H. H. Good- 
 win and H. W. Hurlbut made a good decoration ; 
 Mr. George D. Jewett had flags and festoons of red, 
 white, and blue ; Dr. Hudson, flags : B. E. Buck, festoons ; 
 Aisburg & Collins flags, one being hung from the North 
 District school house; H. Ao Gillette, festoons of flags; 
 Daggett, the awning maker, showed a banner bearing the 
 inscription : 
 
 Welcome, happy clay \vhen soidiers meet. 
 Happy day when (hey meet lo part no more. 
 
 C. W, Griswold and W. J. Anderson, at the corner of 
 Main, showed a pretty display oi flags. 
 
 TEINITY STREET. 
 
 The residences of Dr. Bennett, J. H. Ward, J. B. Pres- 
 ton, and Mrs. Seeley, in the block on Trinity street, were 
 beautifully dressed. 
 
 ASYLUM STREET. 
 
 The most noticeable on this street were Batterson's 
 block. Covey & Smith, S. T. Bissell, Charles Sobey, H. 
 Goldsmith, C. H. Pendleton, Thomas H. Smith, Gcmmill 
 & Burnham, Clark & Co., American Tea Company, the 
 office of the Evening Post, Martin's barber shop, Kenyon 
 
THE DECORATIONS. 97 
 
 & Co., Blair's block, August Lippoldt, George Sanders & 
 Co., Rathbuu's drug store, office of the Connecticut 
 Western Railroad Company, W. H. Rogers, D. A. Spear 
 (elegant floral decorations), Wander's musical rooms, J. 
 R. Barlow and the Mammoth Wardrobe— all showed flags 
 and made a street literally filled with bunting. The 
 McClunie Brothers showed a big ship made of flowprs, and 
 two cannon of the same sweet blossoms. Drs. Jarvis & 
 Chamberlain, Miss Esther Pratt, the Allyn House, Henry 
 Kohn, Salomon & DeLeeuvv, Watrous the hatter, W. 
 Boardman & Son, Clark & Holbrook, G. E. Van Name, 
 Sunday Journal, W. N. Pelton, Wheeler & Wilson, Roths- 
 child's eating rooms, Kingsley's market, Ehret's cigar 
 store, L. Barker & Co.'s music rooms," Singer Sewing- 
 machine Company, N. S. Hall's clothing store (fine 
 figure of a Goddess of Liberty), George Pomroy, Geeley's 
 (a very fine showing), L. G. Cummings, E. T. Fuller, A. 
 W. Lang, J. B. Stone, A. Heublein, H. W. Clark, H. F. 
 Corning, &c., all covered their places of business with 
 flags, red, white, and blue bunting— a profusion of colors, 
 neatly arranged. 
 
 Smith, Bourn & Co., James Hickinson, picture of Grant 
 and festoons ; Traveler's Rest, Bull's fish market, W. H. 
 Lathrop, J. N. Caswell, Alex. Allen, Boardman's, Goerz 
 Bros., A. M. Hurlburt, Asylum Street House, Hills & 
 Smith, Fidel Bubser (ver}^ fine show), with motto, "Wel- 
 come, brave defenders of tlie flag ;" J. P. Newton, Adams 
 Express Co., A. H. Embler & Co., E. J. Whitraore, "Hub" 
 Clothing House, Sykes & Newton, A. Hollander, Brown & 
 Gross, Freeman's Clothing House, M. Stern. A. P. Brown, 
 Betts & Co. 
 
98 UISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 PRATT STREET. 
 
 The decorations on this street were confined to two or 
 three ])laces. Dr. J. McManus had a large shield framed 
 in evergreens, strips of Dunting, flags, etc. The Courant 
 office had a shield, eagle, and draping of red, white, and 
 blue, very ornamentally arranged. 
 
 PARK STREET. 
 
 Several flags went across this street, with appropriate 
 inscriptions. .The blocks near Main street were hand- 
 somely decorated, as were also the residences of Mrs. D. 
 S. Camp, Charles D. Tnller, A. H. Bull, and Dr. Johnson. 
 Mr. Trumbull made an arch of evergreens in front of his 
 building, which had a pretty effect. Mr. Cross made a 
 good show, as did also Messrs. Langdon and Street, with 
 stars and shield ; Gurdon Robins, with festoons. Mr. 
 Bull showed a flag and selection from the Star-Spangled 
 Banner; Mr. Hussey, a bust of General Grant; C. H. 
 Smith, very handsome heavy festooning ; Major Thomas 
 McManus, fine show of festoons W. E. Baker made a 
 very elegant display, the hedge around tlie yard being 
 filled with flags. Messrs. Simmons and Frisbie also made 
 a good show. 
 
 MAPLE AVENUE. 
 
 The following residences were beautifully decorated : 
 Messrs. Hickmott, John F. Glynn, William McEvoy, John 
 Galvin, Thomas Eustice, W. 0. Carpenter, Stancliffe, 
 Stiner, Scott, Garrity, O'Farrell, Weeks, Callalian, J. S. 
 Gilman, Captain J. K. White. Tolhurst, Bacon, and Row- 
 ley. The House of Rowland Swift was magnificently 
 decorated. 
 
 One of the most appropriate reminders of the war, 
 among the "decorations" of Battle-Flag Day, was a sheath 
 
THE DECORATIONS. 99 
 
 of five pitcliforks at the residence of Lieutenant Thomas 
 H. Thirlkel, on Maple avenue. It attracted a great deal 
 of attention, and the companies of veterans were so enthus- 
 iastic over the display that they cheered lustily as they 
 passed. 
 
 EXCHANGE CORNER. 
 
 E. D. Williams, Fowler, Miller & Co., Eliliu H. Geer, 
 Lewis E. Stanton, G. W. TuUer & Co., United States 
 Hotel, J. Kennedy, Newton's dining room. Below this, 
 on State street, the decorations were by John N. Cowles, 
 J. Getz, T. Murphy, G. D. Winslow, E. Rosenbaum, 
 P. Stock, Donahue Brothers, I. Hills & Sons, M. H. Keane. 
 A flag was thrown across the street, and the bridge of 
 the Valley road was decorated with the national colors. 
 
 MARKET STREET. 
 
 Stephen Duffy, Derby House, and F. Heublein ; the 
 latter had a flag over the street, with the motto "Wel- 
 come." 
 
 PROSPECT STREET. 
 
 Travelers Insurance Company, Brinley mansion, J. C. 
 Parsons, and others. On Grove street, just below Pros- 
 pect, G. D. Winslow's house was prettily decorated. 
 
 MULBERRY STREET. 
 
 The finest decorations were made by Andrew Heublein, 
 whose Park Hotel was brilliant with the national colors, 
 shields, and signal flags, and R. Bubser, who had in front 
 of his place an evergreen arbor, decorated with bunting. 
 Other decorators were Charles Pollard, Dr. Perry, Garvie 
 Bros, (knapsack and crossed muskets). Ph. Krauss, P. F. 
 Schneider, P. S. Smith, W. Loescher, Clapp Bros., and E. 
 Witte. 
 
100 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 WELLS STREET. 
 
 G. F. Heubleiii & Bro., II. E. Patten, G. Rchrmeyer, 
 and M. Fox. 
 
 PEARL STREET. 
 
 C. II. Prentice, N. Harris, Halls of Record, M. Linalian, 
 Ryberg Bros., and the several dining rooms. 
 
 TRUMBULL STREET. 
 
 J. H. Towne, express agent, had his office very elabor- 
 ately ornamented, and pretty designs were shown in the 
 adjoining store of Miss E. M. Rose. Other decorators 
 were I. Davis, I. D. Smith, E. Tncker's Sons, and J. B. 
 Knox. 
 
 Captain William H. Lockwood, windows decorated with 
 red, white, and blue, army corps badges, and regimental 
 inscriptions — a very pleasing display. 
 
 BUCKINGHAM STREET. 
 
 Joseph L. Barbour and James H. Bidwell, porch prettily 
 decorated; W. H. Goodrich, dozen flags ; Cliarles L. Ful- 
 ler, bunting and flags. Several other flags were also 
 shown on the street at intervals. 
 
 NAMES OF THE LITTLE GIRLS WHO APPEARED IN THE PYRA- 
 MID AT THE SOUTH GREEN. 
 
 Kfitie Adkins, Louise Bartlett, Edith Bunnell, 
 
 Annie Andrews,. Clara Bartlett, Agnes Burnliam, 
 
 Nellie Andrews, Lizzie Baugh, Lizzie Butts, 
 
 Nellie Alger, Jennie Barclitield, Clirissie Brown, 
 
 Millie Alger, Hattie Benjamin, Zulette Brown, 
 
 Elsie Baldwin, Lizzie Benjamin, Annie Britton, 
 
 Gracie Baldwin, Maud Bennett, Hattie Bragg, 
 
 Grace Barker, Emily Binns, Emma Carroll, 
 
THE DECORATIONS. 
 
 101 
 
 Gertie Carroll, 
 Maggie Cavauagb, 
 Lillie Carpenter, 
 Lelia Cooper, 
 Lottie Cliamberlalu, 
 Lena Collins, 
 Lillie Coughliu, 
 Annie Cummings, 
 Annie Comerford, 
 Ada Dawes, 
 Agnes Deming, 
 Gertie Daniels, 
 Mary Degenhart, 
 Alice Duggan, 
 Annie Donglas, 
 Maria Duff, 
 Emma Emmons, 
 Maggie Farley, 
 Maggie Flannegan, 
 Eliza Flannegan, 
 ]\Lary Flannegan, 
 Etta Fairfield, 
 Gracie Fisher, 
 Katie Gold, 
 Hattie Gillette, 
 Mary Guinan, 
 Maggie Guinan, 
 Julia Guinan, 
 Katie Gibbons, 
 Ruby Gelston, 
 Susie Griswold, 
 Mary Hague, 
 Mary Hale, 
 Annie Harrison, 
 
 Maggie Harrison, 
 Ida Harrison, 
 Lillie Hough, 
 Annie Haley, 
 Carrie Hills, 
 Emma Ilclfricht, 
 Alice Hills, 
 Ida Johnson, 
 Mary Kennedy, 
 Addie Kennedy, 
 Maggie Kinnarny, 
 Cosic Lamb, 
 Carrie Lathrop, 
 Gertie Lathrop, 
 Fanny Loomis, 
 Cora Leach, 
 Mary Lyon, 
 Lizzie Longdon, 
 Josie Maloney, 
 IVIary Maloney, 
 Alice Maloney, 
 Nellie McLeod, 
 Annie Merriam, 
 Ella Nichols, 
 Minnie Neelcy, 
 Kittie Newton, 
 Dora Nuhn, 
 Sarah Owen, 
 Laura Pease, 
 Lydia Patz, 
 Edith Pickett, 
 Millie Pickett, 
 Carrie Pratt, 
 Lizzie Pitts, 
 Goddess. of Liberty, Hettie 
 
 Mabel Piice, 
 Delia Rosenthal, 
 Cari-ie Rowley, 
 Jennie Rheutan, 
 Minnie Slmonds, 
 Hannora Sullivan, 
 Letlie Southergill, 
 Hattie Soutliergill, 
 Mattie Starr, 
 Hannah Stern, 
 Minnie Stern, 
 Rosa Stern, 
 Mary Smith, 
 Mary Shay, 
 Fanny Spencer, 
 Annie Slincy, 
 Emma Stait, 
 Lizzie Skinner, 
 Mamie Stevens, 
 Emma Schwab, 
 Josie Schwab, 
 Emma SchaiTer, 
 Minnie Stevens, 
 Georgie Tiffany, 
 Nellie Tifft, 
 Nellie Tucker, 
 Maggie Tracy, 
 Edith Tolhurst, 
 Grace Van Keuren, 
 Fanny Whitehouse, 
 Loulie Wilkinson, 
 Emma Williams, 
 Julia Williams, 
 Henrietta Words. 
 Jauvis. 
 
102 
 
 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 NAMES OF HILL CADETS CONNECTED WITH THE WEST MID- 
 DLE SCHOOL, WHO APPEARED IN THE PYRAMID. 
 
 Captain — Samuel B. Coil. 
 
 First Lieutenant — Frnnlc Pratt. 
 
 Second Lieutenant — Frank Corbin. 
 
 First Sergeant — Allen H. Newton. 
 
 Non- Commissioned Officers and 
 Qcor£?e B. Bicbards, Clinton H. Newton, 
 
 Artbnr II. Bronson, 
 Tbomas S. Cbeney, 
 Charlie M. Clark, 
 John W. Morell, 
 Malion A. Winter, 
 Frank II. Hastings, 
 John W. Higgins, 
 Daniel S. Morel), 
 Howard S. Hudson, 
 
 Charles W. Picrson, 
 William H. Allen, 
 Fred. D. Rathbun, 
 Eugene C. Wander, 
 Fred. C. Bates, 
 Arehie D. Woodruff, 
 Bobert Pattou, 
 John P. Ilaynes, 
 Allen B. Talcott, 
 
 Benjamin IT. Bingham, Leland Howard, 
 
 Harry J. Goodnow, Fred. C. Ives, 
 
 Richard L. Hubbard, 
 
 Charles A. Kellogg, 
 
 Herbert S. Bullard, 
 
 II. Edward Bissell, 
 
 Frank W. Hubbard, 
 
 Fred. D. Glazier, 
 William T. Moore, 
 Willie P. Conklin, 
 Charles P. Cooley, 
 Frank H. Trask, 
 
 Privates. 
 Harry A. Wcek.s, 
 Wolcott W.Ellsworth, 
 Carl W. Jones, 
 Howard Bourne, 
 James Stone, 
 Bennie Bishop, 
 George Burnham, 
 James J. Stanton, 
 Thomas Waterous, 
 Alfred E. Snow, 
 Chuck Yung, 
 Loomis A. Newton, 
 Edward E. Tucker, 
 Frank Warner, 
 Robert H. Chapman, 
 Reggie H. Birney. 
 
 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DECORATIONS FOR BATTLE 
 FLAG PARADE. 
 
 The amount appropriated for the use of this committee 
 was six Inuidred dollars, which was sli<^'litly exceeded, on 
 account of extra decorations called for as the interest 
 increased. 
 
 The members took hold of their department in a man- 
 ner which, from tlie first, meant business, the residt of 
 which was shown on the day of the i)arade. Rarely in 
 this country have such beautiful decorations been seen on 
 any public occasion as was displayed by the citizens of 
 Hartford on this never-to-be-forgotten day. 
 
THE DECORATIONS. 103 
 
 The committee issued circulars, signed by all the mem- 
 bers, calling upon each family and merchant on the line of 
 march to decorate, and these were faithfully distributed 
 several days in advance of the day. 
 
 This call met with a hearty response, r.nd numberless 
 calls upon the committee for materials and for information 
 how to trim. 
 
 One of the committee went to New York twice to engage 
 flags, streamers, &c. — the first time for their own use about 
 the streets, the second to obtain materials for the State 
 officials to decorate tlie Capitol. 
 
 Tiie various sign and banner painters, decorators, and 
 florists were engaged to do special work after designs and 
 estimates were furnished. A builder accustomed to such 
 Avork — Mr. M. M. Goodell of Springfield, Mass., who had 
 erected arches in that city last 4th of July — was engaged 
 to erect two arches, one opposite the Opera House and the 
 Cheney Block, the other from tlie City Hotel to the Char- 
 ter Oak life insurance building. 
 
 Competent persons were employed to swing large flags 
 with mottoes across the streets at prominent points. 
 Flags, bunting, and red, white; and blue cambric was fur- 
 m'shed the railroad stations, and at other points where 
 visitors would enter the city. Similar articles were 
 furnished for trimming the omnibusses used for disabled 
 veterans, and every thing put in thorough working order 
 several days in advance. 
 
 The live little committee was sub-divided. One attended 
 to the arches, another the decorating, a third the supplying 
 tlie materials, tlie fourth to the placing and hanging the 
 flags, while the chairman attended to the South Green 
 Pyramid, the electric lights, in conference with the Capitol 
 officials and the Willimantic Linen Company, through the 
 
104 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 treasurer, Major W. E. Barrows, and had general super- 
 vision of the committee. 
 
 As it was thought advisable to do something at the south 
 end in the way of decorating, a happy thouglit suggested 
 itself to one of the committee, which was heartily endorsed 
 hy all. It was, to have a pyramid of little girls dressed in 
 white, with red, white, and blue sashes, sitting upon raised 
 seats, with a company of cadets standing guard at the 
 base. 
 
 Two energetic ladies — Mrs. John Jarvis, and Miss A. L. 
 Curtiss, principal of the Charter Oak School — agreed to 
 aid in the arrangement, the consent of Principal D. P. 
 Corbin (formerly captain in the 22d C. V.), of the West 
 Middle School, was obtained foi' the assistance of the Hill 
 Cadets connected with his school, Maercklein was engaged 
 to arrange the decorations for the tableau, the result 
 being the prettiest display of the wliole. 
 
 It required not only a force of police, but a platoon of 
 both Horse and Foot Guards to clear the front in order to 
 show the picture, but it was finally accomplished, and as 
 one after another of the veteran regiments caught sight of 
 the pyramid, cheer upon cheer arose "for the children." 
 
 One hundred and thirty little girls from five to twelve 
 years of age, and fifty-five cadets, under command of 
 Captain George F. Whitney of the Veteran City Guard, 
 formed the tableau. The little girls, prettily dressed and 
 waving flags, the boys in uniform, with white gloves and 
 badges, standing at parade rest — it was, as was truly stated 
 by the New York Times, "the feature of the parade." 
 
 There were many noticeable decorations by parties, aside 
 
 from those gotten up by the committee, some of them very 
 
 beautiful, but this committee were many times called upon 
 
 to make suggestions, and to aid in various ways, all of 
 
 vhich was cheerfully given. 
 
THE DECORATIONS. 105 
 
 Another capital idea carried out by the Committee on 
 Decorations was tlie issuing of tasty programmes, ele- 
 gantly printed, giving a cut of the Capitol, a list of all the 
 committees appointed, the chief marshal and entire staff, 
 while on the last })age were the words entire of "Marching 
 through Ceorgia," as originally written and composed by 
 Henry C. Work, a Hartford boy. 01 these 8,000 were 
 printed, and 7,000 distributed among the veterans, to bo 
 kept as a reminder of the day. The chairman of the 
 committee still lias several hundred on hand, which are 
 free to any who may call for them. 
 
 The badge of office worn by members of this committee 
 was, in some respects, the most elegant ever gotten up in 
 this city, and as just enough were ])rinted for their use, 
 tl/cy would conunand a pi'cmiuni could any be ])urchased. 
 The ribbon was of ecru silk, Iniving the city coat of arms 
 and date in light blue, while the word 1)1':c()Uation was 
 printed in gold on a dark blue ground, the whole making 
 a most beautiful comljination. 
 
 The citizens of Hartford ouglit certaiidy to feel proud of 
 its Battle-Flag Day Committee on Decorations, as well of 
 all who worked so faithfully and harmoniously. 
 
 After the parade the committee gave the red, while, and 
 blue material to Mrs. Smith, City Missionary, the twenty- 
 four corps badges on the City Hotel arch to Robert 0. 
 Tyler Post, G. A. R., for their room, and other articles to 
 various parties as keepsakes. The holes in which the 
 arches were set were generously given by the chairman to 
 the Board of Street Commissioners. 
 
 ILLUMINATIONS. 
 
 The grandest spectacle on Main street was the new City 
 Hall and the arch in front of it. The hall was ablaze 
 
106 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 from tlie dome to the base. Cliinese lanterns in festoons 
 fell from the summit. Two rows of gaslights illuminated 
 the front, and tlie iron fence on the sides was tipped with 
 gas-burners. The arch was covered with gaslights also, 
 making a beautiful appearance. Along the street at vari- 
 ous places red fire lit up the scene. 
 
 The handsome arch on ^yashington street, erected by 
 Mr. M. G. Bulkeley, was handsomely lighted and attracted 
 much attention, as its decorations had during the day. 
 
 THE ELECTRIC DISPLAY. 
 
 Just about seven o'clock the electric illumination by 
 the Brush light began, and it was kept up till ten o'clock. 
 The four large lights on the lantern sent their rays off to 
 the four points of the compass, and the movable light on 
 the Plympton building was turned in various directions. 
 Tliis was of 3,000 candle power, and half as strong again 
 as any of the others. It was thrown upon the jet of 
 water and produced beautiful effects, which were received 
 with cheers by the thousands of spectators, and after that 
 the colored light was also thrown on the water and the 
 result was almost magical. Then the Capitol was made 
 the objective point, and Ihat was made to stand out in 
 shining white as the light fell on it. The light was 
 allowed to lie on the lantern for some minutes in order to 
 give a chance to attempt to photograph it. But it was 
 not kept stationary for any length of time, except that 
 once, but was distributed here and there over the park 
 and elsewhere. The stone bridge at Ford street made a 
 most picturesque scene. The crowds of people and car- 
 riages upon it, the gaily colored clothes and all the life of 
 the thing came out perfectly, while the reflections of the 
 arches in the river were so complete that the lines of 
 
THE DECORATIONS. 107 
 
 reflection could not be drawn, and the wliole seemed 
 ratlier complete tubes than merely half circles repeated. 
 Now and then the light would strike some unexpected 
 spot, and there would be a slight scream and a lively 
 scramble as some affectionate couple, who had been seated 
 pretty near together on the river bank, would find them- 
 selves in daylight and beat a retreat. The light was 
 under the personal management of Mr. C. M. Rowley, of 
 Boston, the New England agent of the Brush Light Com- 
 pany. 
 
 The lights on the lantern of the Capitol were after- 
 wards deflected, and parts of the city were illuminated by 
 them. The whole picture was novel and beautiful. It 
 was enjoyed by all, and mechanically the lights worked 
 without a hitch from the very start. The only doubting 
 question was asked by those who had expected to see the 
 park illuminated all over at once, and who could not see 
 how this was practical. To such it is necessary to explain 
 that these liglits were set before parabolic reflectors and 
 were not, therefore, the ordinary practical light; that is, 
 the reflectors made a difference. The same lights arc ' 
 used without reflectors to shed light like an ordinary 
 lamp. 
 
 The difference between electric and other light was well 
 shown at the Capitol. The building was lighted from toy, 
 to bottom with candles in every window, making a fine 
 display. These had a marked yellow tone, while the 
 electric light was colorless as sunlight. 
 
 All in all, the exhibition was a most interesting feature 
 of the day, and fully repaid the thousands who thronged 
 the park to see it. The public are indebted for it to the 
 Willimantic Thread Company, in whose mills these lights 
 are iji regular use, and especially to Mr. W. E. Barrows, 
 
108 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 the treasurer of tlie company, who has been indefatigable 
 in his< efforts to have everytliing in that line a success, and 
 is to be congratulated on the result of his efforts. 
 
 The Times'' New Britain correspondent announced that 
 the reflection of the electric light on the top of the Cajv 
 itol, about nine miles distant, was so strong on Walnut 
 Hill in that place as to cast a decided shadow. It now 
 appears that on the Talcott Mountain tower, about the 
 same distance westward, the proprietor, Mr. Bartlett, was 
 able to read coarse print by the light from the Capitol. 
 It was also almost equally strong on the hills of Bolton, 
 ten or twelve miles east. 
 
 Here in the city it obliterated the signal lights in the 
 switches, on the railway tracks south of Asylum street, 
 and practically extinguished the lanterns that were shown 
 by the men. The men could be seen from the engine- 
 house as at noonday with lanterns in their hands, but 
 the lights hardly seemed to be lighted. It upset the sig- 
 nal arrangements for trains, every time it was turned 
 upon the tracks, xit Tolland, Mr. L. D. Phelps writes 
 the illumination was visible from Chapman Hill, very 
 plaiidy. The clear, white light of the electric light con- 
 trasted with the yellowish-red of the gaslights that are 
 always reflected on the sky above the city. (Tolland is 
 nineteen miles off.) 
 
 When the committee on the finances went to the Willi- 
 mantic Linen Company to see what remuneration they 
 were to have for the outlay they had made in the matter 
 of the electric lights, they were informed that there was 
 nothing whatever to pay. The company generously did 
 it all at their own expense. 
 

HISTOEY OE THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 [Evening Post.] 
 
 THE removal of the Connecticut Battle Flags from 
 the Arsenal to the new State Capitol seemed a fitting 
 occasion for recovering as full records as possible of these 
 priceless memorials of the war. It is to be regretted that 
 no history of these flags exists, the story of their defense 
 and the sacrifices in their behalf being only told in the 
 lists of dead and wounded of the regimental organizations 
 to which they belonged. In a few years the men who de- 
 fended them will have passed away, and with them, for 
 the most part, all evidences of fealty and devotion to the 
 regimental flags. That the fragments of history remain- 
 ing might not be lost, the Post has carefully collated what 
 facts could be obtained from living witnesses, and offers 
 the results of its labors as a kindly recognition of the day. 
 
 THREE months' TROOPS. 
 
 The First regiment (three months) was the first to 
 move into Virginia and carry the flag of Connecticut on to 
 rebel soil. At the time of the alarm on the occasion of 
 the deatli of Custer in Alexandria, tlie First and Second, 
 then encamped about two miles north of the Capitol at 
 Washington, were ordered out. The First was sent be- 
 
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112 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAT. 
 
 yond Alexandria to a place known as Roach's mill, and 
 in a week or so was joined by the Second. The day after 
 the Second arrived, Schenck's Ohio regiment was ambushed 
 by the rebels, and the First and Second Connecticut reg-i- 
 ments were sent to its relief. General Daniel Tyler, who 
 commanded tliem as a brigade, pushed them beyond the 
 camp of the Ohio men to a place known as Falls Church, 
 only a few miles from Fairfax, where the rebels were mass- 
 ing. Here these two regiments, with a section of Varian's 
 New York battery, held (he extremest outpost (reinforced 
 some time after their arrival by the Third Connecticut), 
 until the march to Bull Run began. On the first day of 
 the march, the Wednesday preceding the Sunday on which 
 the battle was fought, the Second Connecticut lead the 
 division, Company H (Capt. Gore's) of Hartford, being 
 deployed as skirmishers on the right of and in advance of 
 the cohimn. That night, after dark. Company H captured 
 two rebel officers in the road half a mile in advance of the 
 division, which had halted to bivouac at Flint Hill school- 
 house. Capt. Gore and Second Lieut. Scott were in the 
 road at the entrance of a forest where the rebels had felled 
 trees across the way, having with them about a dozen of 
 his men, the remainder of the company, under command of 
 First Lieut. Lord, being deployed as skirmishers in the fields, 
 awaiting relief by a picket guard. Two rebel officers ap- 
 proached on horseback from Fairfax, and were halted by 
 Capt. Gore, who demanded their swords, informing them 
 that they were prisoners. " Are you Yanks ? " asked one 
 of them. "When informed that was the case he turned to 
 the other, and with an oath said, " We've got into the 
 wrong pew." The division commanded by Gen. Tyler was 
 the first to meet the enemy, shelling their outposts on the 
 afternoon of the next day. In the battle of Bull Run the 
 
HISTORY OF THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 113 
 
 three Connecticut regiments ])chavcd liandsomely, and in 
 the retreat preserved their formation. Their discif)line 
 was apparent from the fact tliat they stopped at Falls 
 Church, on their way back, and not only saved their entire 
 jcamp equipage, but that of a regiment of another State, 
 escorting the property safely to the defences near Alex- 
 andria. 
 
 THE FIRST HEAVY ARTILLERY. 
 
 The First Connecticut Heavy Artillery left the Stnte as 
 the Fourth Infantry regiment, Col. Levi Woodhouse of 
 Hartford in command. The original colors were pre- 
 sented to the regiment in front of the old State House on 
 the day of its departure for the scat of war, Monday, June 
 10, 1861. One of the colors was given by ladies interested 
 in the Putnam Phalanx, and was presented by Col. H. L. 
 Miller, then a member of that command. The other flag 
 was from the State, Ex-Lieutenant-Governor Douglas of 
 Middletown making the presentation address. Col. Wood- 
 house responded, pledging on the honor of his command 
 that the flag should never be disgraced. Sul)sequcntly tlie 
 Fourth received an elegant United States color, presented 
 by Connecticut citizens residing in California, and valued 
 at ^800. The eagle surmounting the staff was of gold, 
 and the flag in all respects was elal»oratcly finished. It 
 was sent from California for the first three years' regiment 
 from Connecticut, and in consequence fell to the Fourth. 
 It reached the command at Hagerstown, Md., and was 
 guarded throughout the w'ar with sacred fidelity. Unfor- 
 tunately it was so tattered from service that it could not 
 be unfurled. But from the soldier's view this is the 
 highest of honors, and many a heart thrilled with pride as 
 the gift from Connecticut's sons in California was borne 
 along the line of march. After the Fourth, by a general 
 
114 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 order from the War Department was organized into a 
 heavy artillery command, the companies were a good deal 
 separated, but the esprit de corps continued unbroken 
 througli the war. It was a splendid military organization, 
 fulfilling the gallant promise of Col. Woodhouse for it, when 
 it first left the State. Gen. Hunt, Chief of Artillery, Army 
 of the Potomac, in his report to the War Department, pro- 
 nounced it the best volunteer artillery organization in the 
 service. One of the old color-bearers of the regiment, 
 Carlos Hough, resides at Plainville. He brought back one 
 of the colors from the war, and deposited it at the Arsenal 
 when the command was mustered out. 
 
 THE SECOND HEAVY ARTILLERY. 
 
 The Second Heavy Artillery was organized originally as 
 the Nineteenth Connecticut, Colonel L. W. Wessells of 
 Litchfield, at present quartermaster-general on Governor 
 Andrews' staff, being in command. The State color of 
 the regiment was the gift of Mrs. William Curtis Noyes of 
 New York, a descendant of Colonel Talmadge of Litch- 
 field. The presentation was made on Litchfield Hill, early 
 in September, 1862, by Mr. Noyes, in behalf of his wife. 
 The coat-of-arms of the State is elegantly embroidered in 
 silk, with the Kensington stitch, and the flag as a whole 
 was one of the handsomest that was carried from Connec- 
 ticut. The first color-bearer was 0. R. Fyler, at present 
 postmaster at Wolcottville. He received the colors at 
 Camp Dutton, and held charge of them until the regiment 
 was transferred to the heavy artillery service, when lie was 
 commissioned. His successor was Sergeant I). E. Soule, 
 who carried the colors at the battle of Cold Harbor. 
 There the head of the flag-staff was shot off. Soule was 
 afterwards commissioned, and was succeeded by Sergeant 
 
HISTORY OP THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 115 
 
 C. L. Davis of Goshen. The latter gallantly carried his 
 trust at Winchester, September 19, 1864, but was wounded 
 during tlie engagement. After his recovery he returned 
 to tlie regiment, and again received the custody of the 
 flag. He was with it at Hatcher's Run, February 6, 1865 ; 
 in the charge in front of Fort Fislier, March 25, and also 
 at the charges on Petersburg and Sailor's Creek. Subse- 
 quently he was commissioned, as his predecessors had 
 been. At Petersburg, the Second enjoyed the lionor of 
 first carrying the colors into the city, but a Michigan com- 
 mand first planted the flag on the court-house. Sergeant 
 C. P. Travcrs received the flag after Davis was wounded 
 at Winchester, and carried it through the remainder of the 
 engagement. Two or three days later he was wounded in 
 the wrist at Fisher's Hill, and was obliged to leave the 
 regiment. Sergeant Travers was also promoted after his 
 return to the command. His successor. Sergeant H. S. 
 Wheeler, was mortally wounded at Cedar Creek, October 
 19, 1864, the colors tlien falling to H. L. Bushncll. He 
 lield them only a few moments when he was also shot 
 down, a missile passing through his neck near tlic jugular 
 vein. As soon as Buslinell fell, the colors were caught by 
 H. A. Warner, who carried them through the remainder 
 of the battle. Among those who served as color-guard 
 were S. F. Haskins, D. Miller, Charles Bryan, David 
 Thorp, M. E. Dean, George W. Cleveland, W. N. Wad- 
 hams, II. N. Williams, Thomas Fox, Ralph Munson, J. N. 
 Meramble, J. H. Cooper, and William O'Rourke. Corporal 
 S. F. Haskins was a member of the color-guard in every 
 battle in which the regiment was engaged, escaping injury 
 until tlie last fight at Sailor's Creek, when he received a 
 Minnie ball in the slioulder. David Thorp of Torrington 
 was killed at Cold Harbor. Tlie Second were always 
 
IIG UISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY, 
 
 loyal to their colors, following them with entliusiasm on a 
 score of battle fields. A year ago this fall, by special act 
 of the Legislature, the regiment were permitted to liave 
 the flag presented to them by Mrs. Noyes for their annual 
 reunion at Litchfield, and the occasion was celebrated with 
 brilliant ceremonies, including an address by ex-Governor 
 R. D. Hubbard. 
 
 THE FIFTH REGIMENT. 
 
 The colors of the Fifth regiment were the first to enter 
 Winchester after the Union forces crossed the Potomac in 
 , March, 1862, and received their first fire of shot and shell 
 at the same place, while engaged in the victorious battle 
 fought by Shields, March 22, 18G2. March 25th their 
 colors were again bravely defended at Winchester during 
 tlie retreat of Banks down the Shenandoah valley. 
 August 9, 1862, at Cedar Mountain, the Fifth, in the 
 face of and almost entirely surrounded by the guns of the 
 enemy under Jackson, made a magnificent cliargc, losing 
 in dead on the field, wounded, and prisoners, all its field 
 officers, and all except five of its line officers, and a large 
 number of men. The color-guard, with one exception, 
 were either killed or wounded. Sergeant E. B. Jones, a 
 noble specimen of manliood and a brave and faithful sol- 
 dier, who had carried the flag from the start, was the first 
 to fall, carrying down with him the national color, which 
 was afterward captured l)y the enemy and taken to Rich- 
 mond, and is now in Washington. Application was made 
 to tlie honorable Secretary of War for permission to carry 
 this flag on the 17th, but was refused, the color being, as 
 he says, "government property, and he having no authority 
 to allow it to go out of his possession" — or words to that 
 effect. Sergeant James Hewison, another valiant, con- 
 scientious, and patriotic soldier, while bearing the regimen- 
 
HISTORY OP THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 117 
 
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 tal color was soon after severely wounded, both legs being- 
 shot, and left for dead on the field. He recovered, 
 returned home, and was killed after the war, by a falling 
 sand-bag while on the street in New Haven. In this 
 struggle Color-Corporal Sherman D. Taylor of New 
 Haven lost his life. Captain George W. Corliss, of Com- 
 pany C, grasped the regimental color, tore it from the 
 staff, and it was finally borne off the field by Sergeant 
 William P. Smith. Corporal Daniel L. Smith was also 
 killed in this desperate encounter. In this conflict, one of 
 the most disastrous of the war, Colonel George D. Chap- 
 man was taken prisoner ; Lieutenant-Colonel H. B. Stone 
 received his death wound, and was taken prisoner ; Major 
 Edward F. Blake was shot dead, it is said by some while 
 bearing the colors, and by others in a hand to hand fight 
 with the enemy. Lieutenant H. M. Dutton of New 
 Haven, and Lieutenant Heber Smith of Hartford were 
 killed early in the action. Fifty brave men were shot 
 down in a few moments. The colors of the regiment were 
 afterwards borne through Antietam, Chantilly, Gettysburg, 
 ChanccUorsville, Resaca, Dallas, Seige of Atlanta, March 
 to the Sea, Averysboro and Bentonville, North Carolina. 
 They were carried in the review at Washington, and 
 brought home to Hartford by Sergeant J. M. Cahill of 
 Hartford, who, on account of sickness, was obliged to ride 
 instead of marching with his regiment. Sergeant Cahill 
 went out with the regiment and served through the Avar. 
 John O'Brien, of New Britain, also returned with one of 
 the colors, but died at Norwich since the war. General 
 Stedman, Brevet-Brigadier General Brayton Ives, of the 
 Twelfth Cavalry, Dr. J. B. Lewis, surgeon of volunteers 
 with brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and Major Edward 
 V. Preston, Paymaster United States Volunteers, were all 
 promoted out of this regiment. 
 
118 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
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 THE SIXTH REGIMENT. 
 
 The colors of the Sixth regiment were in ruins more or 
 less, one of the State flags being without the customary 
 staff and tlie other being badly tattered. Tl>c Sixth, how- 
 ever, l)rought home a fine rebel artillery color, captured 
 at Morris Island, July 10, 1863, Colonel Chatlield in com- 
 mand. The charge on the Confederate battery was made 
 by the Sixth alone, the command carrying the position by 
 sheer plu(;k and bravery. One of the rebel artillerymen 
 attempted to escape with the flag, but Col. Chatfield 
 twice ordered him to halt. Ignoring the order he was 
 fired upon by Roper Henslovv of Co. D, and fell forward 
 upon the flag mortally wounded. Tiie brave fellow's blood- 
 stains can still be traced on the color. It was presented 
 by the ladies of Pocotaligo, October 22, 1862, to the rebel 
 battery, and was gallantly defended to the last. 
 
 THE SEVENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 The national colors of the Seventh regiment, Maj. Gen. 
 Alfred II. Terry's old command and subseciucntly Gen. 
 Hawlcy's, were torn to shi'cds, and carried furled along the 
 line of march. At the Arsenal is a confederate flag ca])- 
 tured by the Seventh at Fort Pluaski, after a bombard- 
 ment of two days under Gen. II. W. Benham. The flag 
 was surrendered to Gen. Hunter, April 11, 1862, the first 
 anniversary of the attack on Fort Sumpter, and bestowed 
 upon the Seventh as being its captors. The regiment 
 made a brilliant record through the war, and participated 
 in a large number of engagements. 
 
 THE EIGHTH REGIMENT. 
 
 The original colors of the Eighth regiment were received 
 from "the Sons of Connecticut" in New York, the pre- 
 
HISTORY OF THE BATTLE-FLAGS. HO 
 
 seiitation taking place while the command was in camp at 
 Jamaica, L. I, Wm. H. Cone of Company C was the 
 first color-bearer, but after his promotion Hcm-y E. Strick- 
 land was entrusted with the flag. The honor was not 
 misplaced, as Strickland at the battle of Xewbernc was the 
 first man to phmt his colors on the entrenchments. At 
 the battle of Antictam he was mortally wounded, but as he 
 fell the flag was seized by Lt.-Col. Appleman, subsequently 
 Secretary of State of Connecticut, and held hi the face of 
 the enemy until Sergeant Walker of Company P took 
 Strickland's place in the ranks. After the Eighth re- 
 enlisted. Sergeant Thomas J. Hubbard of Torrington was 
 appointed color-sergeant, and carried the national color 
 until the battle of Walthall, Va., :^^ay 1, 18G4, where his 
 elbow was shattered by a minnie ball. Although the arm 
 was completely crushed, Hubbard still clung to his color 
 for a considerable distance, advancing with the line of bat- 
 tle. Finally he was relieved by Sergeant Orlow J. Root, 
 at present of Pine Meadow, who carried the flag through 
 the remainder of the engagement. He also came home 
 with it, depositing it at the State Arsenal when the regi- 
 ment was mustered out of service. 
 
 THE NINTH REGIBIENT. 
 
 The two national colors of the Ninth, the gallant Irish 
 regiment from this State, passed through a score of 
 engagements, and are so tattered that they cannot be un- 
 furled. But the regimental color is in a fair state of pres- 
 ervation. The Confederate national flag at the Arsenal, 
 which was captured at Pass Christian from the Fourth 
 Mississippi, April 4, 1864, was taken by Captain Wright of 
 the Ninth. It was made by the ladies of Pass Christian, 
 and the figure in the center was of a magnolia. In its day 
 
120 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 this color was a superb piece of work. Now it is in slireds, 
 and so fallen to pieces that it can be i)reserved only with 
 <he utmost care. For years it was kept in a j)aper pack- 
 age, which may account for its untimely dilapidation. 
 Colonel John G. Ilcaly of New Haven is oiie of the sur- 
 vivors of the old Ninth. 
 
 The color-sei'geants of the Ninth Connecticut were : 
 Thomas Kejincdy and Jeremiah McGrath, 1861 ; Walter 
 Malonoy and Patrick Ingoldsby, 1862 ; Michael Kennedy 
 and William Scully, 1862 ; Michael Kennedy and Dennis 
 Gately, 1802-3 ; James Caffrey and James Melvin, 1864 ; 
 Sergeant Alcott, Nicholas Coraisky, and William Perry, in 
 the Shenandoah Valley campaign, 1804 ; Thomas Ryan 
 and Richard McDonnell, 1865. Both the color-sergeants 
 were disabled at Cedar Creek, and in the charge in the 
 afternoon Colonel Ilealy carried the colors. They were 
 the first upon the retaken works. 
 
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 THE TP]NTH REGIMENT. 
 
 The colors of the Tenth Regiment show the inscriptions 
 of at least twenty-four battles, the number including 
 Kinstou, Dcceuiber 14, 1862, Whitehall two days later, 
 December 16tli, and Goldsboro the 17th, making three 
 engagements in four days. During the summer of 1863, 
 the regiment was at James Island and Fort Wagner, the 
 former engagement occurring July 16th, and the latter 
 July li^th, and also participated in the siege of Forts Wag- 
 ner and (»regg, at Roanoke Island, the siege of Charleston, 
 Bermuda Hundred, the sieges of Richmond and Peters- 
 l)urg, in fact through a score of hard-fought battles the 
 Tenth won its way to honor and distinction. The colors 
 of the command may well be prized by the State, having 
 been defended with the utmost gallantry during the service. 
 
HISTORY OP THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 121 
 
 The national color was able to be unfurled during the 
 march, but the State color was in tatters, and had to be 
 carried with great care. The color-bearers were Joseph 
 M. Nichols, A. J. Hovey, Terrence O'Brien, and Miles 
 Smith. 
 
 THE ELEVENTH. 
 
 The national color of the Eleventh Regiment, Colonel 
 Griffin A. Stedman's command at one time, cannot be un- 
 furled witli any degree of security. The interests cluster- 
 ing about this flag are too sacred to allow a scrap of it to 
 be lost. Already the Eleventh has been spoken of in con- 
 nection with the Eighth at Antietam, but the proudest 
 hour of that day for the Eleventh has not been mentioned. 
 It was when the regiment charged the " Stone Bridge" 
 across Antietam Creek, part of the command fording the 
 stream in order to dislodge the enemy, and the remainder 
 receiving the fierce rebel fire without flinching. It was 
 there that Captain John D, Griswold of Lyme fell mor- 
 tally wounded, from his veins flowing the blood of the 
 Griswolds, who had filled the office of Chief Magistrate of 
 Connecticut with so much dignity and honor in the early 
 history of the State. The Eleventh, at the Sharpsburg 
 Bridge, exhibited magnificent courage, and the l)rilliant 
 charge they made was of infinite value in changing the 
 destiny of Burnside's left. It matters but little that their 
 old flag cannot be unfurled again. It is the record of 
 loyal service that the people are proud of, and that the old 
 Eleventh possesses in full measure. 
 
 THE TWELFTH. 
 
 The Twelfth regiment colors were carried by as brave 
 men as ever left the State of Connecticut, and were gal- 
 lantly defended through the war. The original color of 
 
122 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 the command was presented by the ladies of Hartford, the 
 ceremonies of presentation taking place at the residence of 
 Colonel Henry C. Doming. Besides this flag, which was 
 proudly kept by the command, it received two stands each 
 of the State and national colors during the service, two 
 new flags reaching the men just before entering the cam- 
 paign of the Shenandoah Valley. Sergeant Edwards of 
 Company H was the color-bearer at Georgia Landing, 
 exhibiting splendid devotion to his trust. During the en- 
 gagement he was shot through the mouth, a Minnie ball 
 shattering the jaw, but despite the shock and pain from the 
 wound, Edwards clung to the flag, holding it aloft until 
 Captain L. A. Dickinson of the color company could 
 receive it from him and entrust it to some one else. Ser- 
 geant Edwards is still living. Sergeant Hamilton, also 
 one of the Twelfth's color-bearers, resides in Hartford. 
 Sergeant Holt, another color-bearer of the regiment, lives 
 at Worcester, Mass, During the siege of Fort Hudson the 
 flags of the Twelfth were set out on the line of battle 
 every day, with loyal hearts around them ready for the 
 advance. In the Shenandoah they were followed with 
 alacrity, and at last were brought back to Connecticut 
 without the enemy ever having laid- a finger upon them. 
 Major John W. DeForest of New Haven, the well-known 
 novelist and poet, served as a captain in the Twelfth, and 
 no doubt gained much of the material for his novels while 
 a soldier in that regiment. 
 
 THE THIRTEENTH. 
 
 The Thirteeenth had the longest term of service of any 
 regiment from the State, having been mustered in Novem- 
 ber 25, 1861, and remaining in the field, or at least under 
 control of the government, until May 4, 18G5. The com- 
 
HISTORY OF THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 123 
 
 mand was in the engagement at New Orleans in 1862, 
 Irisli Bend and Port Hudson in 1863, Winchester and 
 Cedar Creek in 1864, and at Augusta, Ga., in 1865, be- 
 sides other important battles. The color-bearer of the 
 regiment was Sergt. Englebert Sauter of Company I. He 
 was wounded at Winchester with the flag in his hands, in 
 front of the battle. At present he is a resident of New 
 London. The regiment received two sets of colors, be- 
 sides a special flag that was presented to them by the 
 ladies of New Orleans, while they were engaged on duty 
 in that city. The New Orleans color was an elegant one 
 in its day, and an elaborate piece of needle-work. The 
 stars and fringe were both silver, and the material of the 
 finest quality of silk. The inscription was as follows : 
 
 UNION, 
 
 13th regt. conn, vols., 
 new orleans. 
 
 1802. 
 
 This flag was deposited with the regular regimental 
 colors at the State Capitol. The Thirteenth also have 
 a captured rebel flag at the Arsenal, taken at Irish Bend, 
 April 14, 1863. It was originally presented by (he ladies 
 of Franklin to the St. Mary's Cannoniers, a rebel organi- 
 zation. The flag was brought off the field by First Lieut. 
 Frank Wells, at present cashier of the First National 
 Bank at Brewsters, N. Y. Among the prominent mem- 
 bers of the Thirteenth were Gen. Birge of Norwich, Col. 
 Homer B. Sprague of Boston, Capt. J. C. Kinney, of The 
 Oourant, and Capt. Charles J. Fuller of Hartford. 
 
 THE FOURTEENTH. 
 
 Among the most remarkable of the Connecticut regi- 
 ments which took part in the celebration on the 17th 
 
124 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 was tlic " gallant old FourteenUi," whose tattered battle- 
 flags have been borne through tlie storms of thirty-four 
 battles. This regiment was actually engaged in a greater 
 number of battles, had more men killed in battle, cap- 
 tured a greater number of cannon, colors, and prisoners 
 from the enemy than any other Connecticut regiment. It 
 was actively engaged from the commencement of its ser- 
 vice, and was never taken from the front. It never lost a 
 color, and but few prisoners were captured by the enemy. 
 The Fourteenth was engaged in all the great battles of 
 the Army of the Potomac, and lost heavily. It went out in 
 September, 1862, under Col. Dwight Morris, who was at 
 once appointed to the command of a brigade, leaving 
 Lieutenant-Colonel S. H. Perkins in command. At the 
 battle of Fredericksburg, Lieutenant-Colonel Perkins was 
 disabled, and shortly after Adjutant Theodore G. Ellis 
 was promoted to Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Colonel, 
 Colonel Morris having resigned, and remained in command 
 until the regiment was mustered out. A history of this 
 brave old regiment will probably never be written, except 
 in the hearts of its members. Tlie details of its services 
 would (ill volumes, and there is no one at the present time 
 to undertake the work. Tlie following is a list of the en- 
 gagements in which the regiment took part : 
 
 BATTLES. 
 
 Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862 
 
 Fredericksburg, _ . . - . Dec. 13, 1862 
 
 Chancellorsville, . . - . May 3 and 3, 1863 
 
 Gettysburg, ----- July 3 and 3, 1863 
 
 Bristoc Station, - - - - - Oct. 14, 1863 
 
 Morton's Ford, Feb. 6, 1864 
 
 Wilderness (Todd's Taveni), - - - - May 5, 1864 
 Wilderness, - May 6, 1864 
 
HISTORY OF THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 
 
 125 
 
 Laurel Hill, - 
 Spottsylvania, - 
 North Anna River, 
 Tolopotomoy, 
 Cold Harbor, - 
 Cold Harbor, - 
 Petersburg, 
 Reams Station, 
 
 SKIRMISHES. 
 
 \ 
 
 Falling Waters, 
 Auburn, . . - 
 
 Blackburn's Ford, 
 Mine Run, - - - 
 
 Spottsylvania, 
 Spottsylvania, 
 Spottsylvania, 
 Milford Station, 
 North Anna River, - 
 Petersburg, - - - 
 
 Deep Bottom, 
 Deep Bottom, 
 Hatcher's Run (Boydton Plank Road), 
 Hatcher's Run, . . - - 
 
 Hatcher's Run, . . . - 
 
 High Bridge, Farmville, Surrender of Lee's Army, 
 
 March 30 
 
 At the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg the reg- 
 iment lost heavily and acted with gallantry, although they 
 had becn'hurried to the field without proper preparation. 
 At Chancellorsville they had begun to acquire that remark- 
 able steadiness and discipline for wdiich they afterwards 
 became so famous, being known through their division as 
 the " Fourteenth regulars." At this battle they were, 
 with the Second Corps, hurried forward to replace the 
 repulsed Eleventh Corps, and in the charge which fol- 
 
 - May 10, 
 
 1864 
 
 - May 12, 
 
 1864 
 
 - May 24, 
 
 1864 
 
 - May 30, 
 
 1864 
 
 June 3, 
 
 1864 
 
 June 5, 
 
 1864 
 
 - June 17, 
 
 1864 
 
 - Aug. 25, 
 
 1864 
 
 - July 14, 
 
 1863 
 
 - Oct. 14, 
 
 1863 
 
 - Oct. 15, 
 
 1863 
 
 - Nov. 30, 
 
 1868 
 
 - May 13, 
 
 1864 
 
 - May 14, 
 
 1864 
 
 - May 18, 
 
 1864 
 
 - May 22, 
 
 1864 
 
 - May 26, 
 
 1864 
 
 - June 16, 
 
 1864 
 
 - Aug. 15, 
 
 1864 
 
 - Aug. 16, 
 
 1864 
 
 - Oct. 27, 
 
 1864 
 
 - Feb. 5, 
 
 1865 
 
 - March 29, 
 
 , 1865 
 
 to Ajn'il 11, 
 
 , 1865 
 
126 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
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 lowed in the morning were the only regiment of its brig- 
 ade which came out in a body without the loss of a pris- 
 oner. The entire brigade headquarters, with the excep- 
 tion of one staff officer, was captured, while the Four- 
 teenth, after being surrounded by the enemy, fought its 
 way out without breaking ranks. 
 
 On the second day of the battle of Gettysburg this reg- 
 iment was selected to drive out a detachment of rebels 
 which was occupying the Bliss House and barn between 
 the main lines of the armies. The barn was gallantly 
 charged and taken by four companies under Captain (after- 
 wards Lieutenant-Colonel) Moore, and the house was cap- 
 tured by the remainder of the regiment under Colonel 
 Ellis, under a heavy fire from the windows, assisted by the 
 enemy's artillery. The Connecticut boys charged in on 
 one side of the house, driving the " rebs " out at the 
 other. 
 
 The celebrated charge of the next day is a matter of 
 history. The Sharps' ri^es of the Fourteenth mowed 
 down the enemy both in front and to the left, opposite 
 General Webb's division, where the enemy obtained a 
 foothold, and a charge was made in Avhich the Fourteenth 
 captured the following colors : 14th Tennessee, 1st Ten- 
 nessee, 16th North Carolina, 52d Nortli Carolina, -Ith Vir- 
 ginia. Colonel Ellis was in command of the brigade at 
 this time, and the officers of the 7th Tennessee, 1st Ten- 
 nessee, 52d North Carolina, 22d North Carolina, and 5tli 
 Alabama surrendered to him. An immense number of 
 prisoners were taken, but not counted. The color of the 
 14th Tennessee was captured by Sergeant-Major (after- 
 wards Adjutant and Major) William B. Hincks. Tliat of 
 the 52d North Carolina was taken by Corporal Christopher 
 
HISTOEY OF THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 129 
 
 Flyim, and that of tlie 16tli Nortli Carolina by Frivate 
 E. W. Bacon. 
 
 William B. Hincks, Christopher Flynn, and Elijah W. 
 Bacon afterwards received medals of honor from the War 
 Department for their gallantry. Sergeants John Gealty 
 and William F. Chadwick were also commended in orders 
 for " acts of distinguished gallantry." At Spottsylvania, 
 May 12, 1864, this regiment, at the head of the division 
 column under the command of Colonel Ellis, charged over 
 the rebel entrenchments and captured ten cannon, turn- 
 ing them on the flying enemy. 
 
 At Reams Station, Ya., Aug. 25, 1864, the regiment 
 recaptured from the enemy a brass cannon and limber 
 belonging to McKnight's Battery, and also a caisson and 
 limber belonging to the Third New Jersey Battery. 
 
 The splendid discipline and unflinching courage of this 
 regiment was the cause of its being often selected for 
 important movements, and it often suffered greatly, 
 though honorably, on this account. 
 
 In spite of the hard service and severe losses of the 
 Fourteenth, a thorough and complete regimental organiza- 
 tion was maintained through the whole term of service, 
 even to possessing the best band in the wliole Army of 
 the Potomac. This band was composed entirely of 
 enlisted men, and went out with and returned with the 
 regiment. Owing to the efficiency of the officers and 
 men, this regiment suffered largely from " details." 
 There was a " Fourteenth man " at nearly every head- 
 quarters in the army corps, and even at army headquar- 
 ters. Fifty men were taken at one time to navigate a 
 steamer, and at the time of the Early i-aid into Maryland, 
 Colonel Ellis was placed in command at Annapolis and 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Moore in command of a detachment 
 
130 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 in "Washington. During the latter part of the war Col- 
 onel Moore was mostly in command of the regiment, 
 Colonel Ellis being detached in liigher commands. 
 
 Of the color-bearers that were present on the 17th were 
 John Fitzpatrick, John Gealty, and John Hirst of Rock- 
 ville, who brought home the State colors. Many of the 
 original color-bearers were killed. Sergeant Thomas J. 
 Mills, tlie first color-sergeant, was killed at Antietam, and 
 Color-Sergeant Armory Allen was killed at Morton's Ford. 
 Color-Corporal George C. Boomer, who was wouuiled at 
 Morton's Ford, came on from Maine to attend the battle- 
 flag ceremonies. Of the great number who carried the 
 colors at different times but little is known. 
 
 THE FIFTEENTH. 
 
 The colors of the Fifteenth regiment were concealed 
 from the Con.federates at the time of that command's cap- 
 ture at Kinston, N. C, near the close of the war, but were 
 afterwards recovered by the men. The national color has 
 inscribed upon it the names of Antietam, Siege of SufTolk, 
 and Kinston, lieing the engagements in which it partici- 
 pated. The State or regimental color is badly torn, one- 
 half of it having entirely disappeared. The rend is 
 through the shield, but what remains is of immeasurable 
 value to the members of the command. While the Fif- 
 teenth passed through fewer battles than most of the three 
 years' regiments, its death record exceeded that of any of 
 the Connecticut commands except the Sixteenth. During 
 the summer of 1864 it was. stationed at Newberne, N. C, 
 passing through one of the most fatal yellow-fever scourges 
 that ever visited that city. Tlie gallantry of the command 
 during this period of horror was worthy of the utmost 
 admiration, and the Fifteentli's colors recall much of 
 
HIsTORY OP THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 131 
 
 courage and heroism. To die on the field with the ap- 
 plause of victory liuging in one's ears may not be hard, 
 but to face death stalking at every corner requires a heart 
 of steel, the highest type of courage. 
 
 The State or regimental color of the Fifteenth was pre- 
 sented by the ladies of Meriden, the presentation address 
 being delivered by Miss Helen Bradley of that city. After 
 the war Miss Bradley was married to Mr. G. C. Merriam, 
 one of the officers of the command. After the battle of 
 Kinston this color was carried off tlie field by Color-Cor- 
 poral James B. Marvin of Company F, wlio is now li^ ing 
 in San Francisco. The color-hearer of the regiment was 
 shot at Kinston. Lieutenant Linsley was in command of 
 the color company at this engagements 
 
 THE SIXTEENTH. 
 
 The colors of the Sixteenth regiment were torn from 
 their standards at the fall of Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 
 1864, and in part distributed among the officers and men, 
 while the remaining portions were burned to prevent them 
 from falling into the hands of the rebels. The pieces that 
 were saved were carried through the military prisons at 
 the South, and finally, on the release of the members who 
 survived the b.orrors of Andcrsonville, Macon, Charleston, 
 and Florence, were brought home. The few shreds of the 
 old colors, which were saved from the Confederates at 
 Plymouth, and the disasters of prison life afterwards, have 
 been kept as sacred souvenirs by their possessors. A few 
 months ago the executive committee of the regiment deter- 
 mined on getting together' as many of these fragments as 
 possible and have them restored, that they might be depos- 
 ited with the battle flags at the Capitol. The rescue of 
 the colors involved the carrying of them across an open 
 
132 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 tract, from four to five rods in width, under the enemy's 
 fire. A bunch of a hundred men or more surrounded 
 them. Within a few feet stood two light artillery guns, 
 one of which had been spiked daring a charge from the 
 rebels on the position. The dead and wounded were 
 grouped here, and the enemy had opened on the spot with 
 grape and canister. From the State color, which was car- 
 ried by Sergt. William E. Bidweil of East Hartford, the 
 silver ornaments surmounting the standard had been cut 
 away by a fragment of shell, and had fallen at his feet. 
 Sergt. Francis Latimer of Hartford carried the national 
 color, which he had eighteen months before gallantly borne 
 off the field at Antietam, and from which he had ever 
 afterwards been inseparable. During this crisis, the most 
 memorable moment in the battle of Plymouth, the flags 
 were called for by the officers of the regiment. Col. John 
 H. Burnham and Adjutant Jolni B. Clapp, who were 
 directing the contest at the right of the line, while Maj. 
 H. L. Pasco, with four companies of the Sixteenth Regi- 
 ment and one company of the Eighty-fifth New York Infan- 
 try, was fighting on the left. Sergeant Latimer instantly 
 obeyed the order, bearing the National color across the 
 perilous spot commanded by. the enemy's infantry and 
 artillery fire. The State color was carried across by Ira 
 E. Forbes, a member of the color-guard, and both were 
 placed in the hands of the officers. The National color 
 of the One Hundred and First Pennsylvania regiment still 
 remained, and that was called for by the officer in com- 
 mand. Color-Guard Forbes of the Sixteenth volunteered 
 to go for it, and did so, bringing it back in safety, thus 
 running the risk of his life three times in succession for 
 the flags that had been called for. An hour later the 
 Union forces at Plymouth were in tlie hands of the rebels, 
 
HISTORY OF THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 133 
 
 _ . . 
 
 but the colors, which they had • defended till the last mo- 
 ment, were eithei' burned or existing in shreds and precious 
 bits here and there among the men. The restored flag of 
 the Sixteenth is made up from these invaluable remnants. 
 
 Sergt.-Maj. Robert H. Kellogg of the Sixteenth, at pres- 
 ent Representative in the State Legislature from the town 
 of Manchester, has published within a few days an inter- 
 esting sketch of the siege of Plymouth and the rescue of 
 the Sixteenth's colors, from which the following extract 
 is taken : 
 
 " It is not necessary to recount the history of the three 
 days' fight. The place was defended with the utmost gal- 
 lantry, but one redoubt after another was carried by as- 
 sault, until on Wednesday morning, April 20th, it was 
 evident that our troops could hold out but a few hours 
 longer. The attempt of the rebels to carry the town by a 
 grand assault in the gray of early morning had been ])ar- 
 tially repulsed; but they had forced their way into th3 
 streets fronting the river, and now from the liouses in our 
 rear poured upon us a hot fire. Completely surrounded 
 and exposed to a trying cross-fire, every fort in possession 
 of the enemy except Furt Williams or the citadel, the posi- 
 tion of the Union troops was now desperate. All demands 
 for surrender had thus far been met with steady refusal by 
 General Wessells. After the last flag of truce from the 
 enemy had returned to their lines, bearing a refusal to the 
 demand for surrender, a tremendous fire of musketry and 
 artillery was opened on the Union line, and the rebels with 
 their characteristic yells were now swarming through the 
 streets of the town, pouring into the camps and pressing 
 every advantage with the confidence of victory near at hand. 
 " It was at this juncture, with every hope of escape 
 destroyed, that the color-guard of the Sixteenth, at the ex- 
 
134 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 treme right of the line, sheltered from the enemy's fire be- 
 hind an artillery platform, shouted to Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Burnham, who was in command of the regiment, to know 
 what should be done with the colors. The reply came, 
 ' Strip them from the staif and bring them here.' To tear 
 each flag from its staif was the work of a moment, but 
 who should carry them through that pelting hail of bul- 
 lets ? It required brave men, and they were not wanting. 
 Color-Sergeant Francis Latimer took the national color, 
 and Color-Corporal ha E. Forbes the State flag, and cross- 
 ing the most exposed part of the field under a heavy fire, 
 safely delivered them to Col. Burnham. It Avas a brave 
 deed, gallantly done. Corporal Forbes returned and safely 
 brought back the flag of the One Hundred and First Penn- 
 sylvania regiment. 
 
 ****** 
 
 "The story of the preservation of the colors is now 
 widely known. The strips, torn into shreds, were dis- 
 tributed among the members of the regiment, and concealed 
 in various ways through the weary days of their imprison- 
 ment in Andersonville, Charleston, Florence, Salisbury, 
 and other prison-pens. These pieces, now gathered from 
 widely-scattered sources and tastefully combined, form the 
 restored colors of the Sixteenth Connecticut. Of the two 
 members of the color-guard who risked their lives for the 
 preservation of the colors, Mr. Ira E. Forbes of the Eve7i- 
 ing Post of this city, alone survives. Color-Sergeant Lat- 
 imer died about a year since." 
 
 The full color-guard of the Sixteenth at Plymouth con- 
 sisted of Sergeants Latimer and Bidwell, and Corporals 
 Lauren C. Mills of Canton, Charles G. Lee of Guilford, 
 Hiram D. Williams of Hartford, John B. Bartholomew of 
 Bristol, and Ira E. Forbes of East Hartford. Mills was 
 
HISTORY OF THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 
 
 135 
 
 wounded during the engagement and died April 28, 1864. 
 Williams died at Andersonville, and Lcc, after months of 
 imprisonment at Andersonville and Charleston, perished 
 near Wilmington, N. C, while passing through the lines 
 on his way to be exchanged. 
 
 THE SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 The Seventeenth Connecticut was a Fairfield county 
 regiment, and entered the service under command of Col. 
 W. H. Nol.le of Bridgeport. At the battle of Chancellors- 
 ville the command lost 120 men in killed and wounded, 
 including Lieut.-Col. Walter. At Gettysburg Lieut.-Col. 
 Fowler, Capt. Moore, and 18 men were killed, and a large 
 number of men were wounded. The national color of the 
 Seventeenth has the name of the command and the con- 
 stellation of stars elegantly embroidered in silk, and so in 
 part is well preserved. But mainly the flag is in tatters, 
 and had to be carried furled along the line of march on 
 Battle-Flag day. It has seen hard service in the field and 
 sustains an honorable record in the history of the war- 
 The State colors are in fair condition. The color-bearers 
 were J. R. Middlebrook, William Humphreys, James Bos- 
 worth, William Baker, and George Hall. 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH. 
 
 Among the flags that were received with enthusiasm" 
 none met with a warmer reception than the State color of 
 the Eighteenth regiment, presented to the command by the 
 ladies of Norwich. 
 
 This flag was saved by the indomitable gallantry of 
 Color-Sergeant George F. Torry, on the morning of June 
 15, 1863, near Winchester, Va. The Eighteenth, which 
 formed a part of General Milroy's command, had been 
 
136 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 fighting the rebels all the day previous and had captured 
 a number of prisoners from the center of the rebel lines. 
 In the night General Milroy, finding his small force likely 
 to be captured by the left wing of the rebel army en route 
 to Gettysburg under General Lee, resolved to retreat. On 
 the retreat at early dawn the rebel artillery and musketry 
 pealed forth from the woods along the line of march, and 
 Milroy's command was immediately engaged in close 
 action. It was not the intention to make battle, but it 
 was unavoidable, and it also became necessary to charge a 
 rebel battery, and General Milroy selected the Eighteenth 
 regiment for the work, with orders to fight till the Third 
 brigade came to their relief. 
 
 The battery was charged again and again, till its horses 
 and men were killed or wounded. But the Third brigade 
 did not come, and the Eighteenth found itself in an almost 
 hand-to-hand contest with Joe Johnston's division in front, 
 and intercepted on the flank by Stonewall Jackson's old 
 brigade on the Martinsburg road. Escape in a body was 
 impossible. Color-Sergeant Torry was ordered to destroy 
 his flag rather than let it fall into the hands of the enemy. 
 In the excitement of the moment, while the Confederates 
 were intent on the capture of the main body of the 
 Eighteenth, Sergeant Torry cut his color from its staff, 
 wound it around his body beneath his uniform, and escaped. 
 Once from the scene of action he writes : " It was every 
 man for himself and the devil take the hindmost." Torry 
 by hard traveling and good luck brought his color safe 
 into the Union lines. 
 
 The majority of the Eighteenth's officers and men were 
 captured. On their release from Belle Isle and Libby 
 Prison, the desire to get even with the rebels was upper- 
 most. That desire was fully gratified on several subse- 
 
HISTORY OF THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 137 
 
 quent occasions, notably at Piedmont, Va., June 5, 1864, 
 where this regiment captured over a thousand rebels, to- 
 gether witli their battle-Hags. It is due to the whole color- 
 guard of the Eighteenth to say that they always carried 
 tlieir colors well to the front, in testimony of which the 
 bodies of the survivors, like their flags, bear honorable 
 scars. 
 
 THE TWENTIETH. 
 
 As Color-Sergeant Robert E. Prior laughingly remarked 
 the other day, the Twentieth regiment captured no colors, 
 but they took theirs from Connecticut and brought them 
 back, and no rebel ever laid hand on them. At the battle 
 of Peach Tree Creek, Color-Sergeant David Thorncroft of 
 Hartford, a gallant soldier, was shot down with the colors 
 in his hands, giving his life a willing sacrifice in their 
 defense. He died at Camp Denison, Ohio, February 10, 
 1865. William H. Slate and John Keefe, members of the 
 color-guard, were also wounded at the same engagement. 
 After Thorncroft fell. Sergeant Prior received the colors 
 and carried them through the rest of the battle. He was 
 wounded several times in subsequent engagements, but 
 was never known to abandon his post. Among the mem- 
 bers of the color-guard were Emrai Rochner, John H. 
 Piatt, Pizarro S. PuUon, Charles E. Boies, James Lyie, 
 Nathan B. Abbott, James A. Atwater, John Price, who 
 lost a leg at Gettysburg, and Robert Pyne. Piatt was 
 wounded with the colors at Bentonville, and Atwater at 
 Chancellorsville. Corporal Abbott was also wounded dur- 
 ing one of the engagements in which the regiment partici- 
 pated. Corporal Keefe was with the colors from the time 
 they left the State until their return. Sergeant Prior was 
 the National color-bearer when the roghnent was mustered 
 out, being the last memJDer of the command to have it in 
 
138 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 custodj. Department Commander Charles E. Fowler of 
 New Haven, John H. Thacher of Hartford, nephew of 
 Prof. Thomas Thacher of Yale College, and Fire Commis- 
 sioner Ed. J. Smith of Hartford were members of the 
 Twentieth. The commander was General Samuel Ross of 
 the regular army. 
 
 THE TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT. 
 
 The Twenty-first regiment was organized in Hartford^ 
 New London, and Windham counties, and was commanded 
 by Col. Arthur H. Dutton of Wallingford, who was ap- 
 pointed to the command from the regular arm}-. He was 
 fatally wounded at Drury's Bluff. A few days laicr, June 
 9, 1864, Col. Burpee, who succeeded Cul. Dutton, was also 
 mortally wounded while going his rounds as brigade officer. 
 On the National color of the command may he read the in- 
 scriptions : " Fredericksburg, Siege of Suffolk, Drury's 
 Bluff, Cold Harbor, Petersburg Heights, Siege of Peters- 
 burg, Fort Harrison, Fair Oaks, and Eichmond," a list of 
 battles tliat any band of veterans might be proud of. One 
 of the Twenty-first's national flags is in ruins, having 
 passed through three years of hard and persistent service, 
 and was carried furled along the line of march from the 
 Arsenal to the Capitol. The color-bearers were Color-Ser- 
 geant John Douglass, Corporal H. A. Camp, J. H. Selden, 
 and William H. Lane. 
 
 THE TWENTY-SECOND. 
 
 The colors of the Twenty-second were carried by Ser- 
 geants A. J. Carrier and Joseph Wilson of Hartford. 
 Carrier has been absent from the State for a considerable 
 period, at present residing in Colorado. Wilson lives in 
 Hartford, being engaged in business on the river here. 
 
HISTORY OP THE BATTLE- FLAGS. 139 
 
 The Twenty-second was tlie first nine months' regiment 
 from the State, but, witliout fault of its own, was not 
 brought very actively into the scenes of the war. It was 
 present at the siege of Suffolk, and in line of battle at the 
 Nansemond, where Captain Charles A. Tennant of Hart- 
 ford and Colonel Ringgold of New Yorlc were fatally 
 wounded, but was not summoned into action. The regi- 
 ment had on its muster roll some of the most intelligent 
 and patriotic young men in Hartford county, and to them 
 it has always been a source of dissatisfaction that they 
 were not given a more brilliant part in the war. But 
 they did their duty as they were ordered. In this they did 
 as well as the most war-worn veterans from the State, and 
 their colors are as precious in the sight of brave men. 
 
 THE TWENTY-THIRD. 
 
 The Twenty-third regiment was commanded by Colonel 
 C. E. L. Holms, formerly of Waterbury, but at present 
 engaged in business at New York. The State color of this 
 command was presented to Colonel Holms by his cousin. 
 Colonel Samuel Holms of New York. It was made by 
 Tiffany & Co., and was an elegant specimen of workman- 
 ship. On the transverse side from the State coat-of-arms 
 was a handsome sketch of General Putiunn riding down 
 the stone steps at Greenwich. The national color was 
 presented by a member of the regiment. The twenty- 
 third was stationed in the Gulf Department, and partici- 
 pated in the closing scenes of the war. Doing duty along 
 a hostile stretch of territory, eighty miles in length, the 
 bulk of the regiment fell a prey to General Dick Taylor's 
 forces, and was dispatched to the Confederate prisons in 
 Taxes. At Boeuf the State flag was destroyed with 
 $1,000,000 worth of government stores, to prevent its 
 
140 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 falling into the liands of the enemy. Just at this point it 
 will not be out of place to relate a single instance of the 
 bravery of Captain Welles of Waterbury. Taylor had 
 made a desperate effort to secure the stores at Boeuf, and 
 especially the railroad trains and locomotives. Captain 
 Welles, finding that he was likely to be overpowered by 
 the rebel forces, ordered the supplies burned and the loco- 
 motives rendered unfit for service. The engineer was a 
 Southerner, but had no alternative than to obey the orders 
 of Captain Welles. After the work of destruction was 
 through with, the rendezvous was captured by Taylor's 
 troops, and the Southern engineer was threatened with 
 execution at the nearest tree. At this crisis Captain 
 Welles approached General Taylor, and said to him that if 
 any hanging was to be done he was the man to be hung, 
 not the engineer, who simply obeyed orders. He had 
 been placed there to guard the stores as long as he could, 
 and when he saw that he could not protect them, he had 
 ordered them destroyed, and was ready to accept the con- 
 sequences. Taylor did not exactly dare to execute a 
 United States officer, and the Captain's courage saved 
 both himself and the Southern engineer. The national 
 color was saved by Colonel Holms, and has been in his 
 possession since the war. The color-bearer of the Twenty- 
 third was Sergeant Henry Stocking. Mr. Henry T. Bron- 
 son was also a member of this command. 
 
 THE TWENTY-FOURTH. 
 
 The Twenty-fourth regiment was organized in Septem- 
 ber, 1862. Six companies were recruited in Middlesex 
 county. Companies A, D, F, and G being from Middle- 
 town, Company B from Essex, and Company C from 
 Chatham. The remaining four companies were composed 
 
HISTORY OF THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 141 
 
 of three Irish and one American grganizations, recruited 
 in Hartford, New Haven, and Fairfield counties. Colonel 
 Samuel L. Mansfield, a native and resident of Middletown, 
 and a Lieutenant in the regular army, was placed in com- 
 mand. The regiment went into camp at Middletown, but 
 left its rendezvous these November 18, 1862, and was 
 assigned to General Banks' expedition. There were 698 
 officers and men in the regiment. They went into Camp 
 Buckingham, Centerville, L. I., and soon afterward were 
 ordered to join the army before Port Hudson. Before 
 leaving Middletown the ladies of that city had decided to 
 present the company with a beautiful regimental flag, but 
 were not able to complete it before the departure for the 
 front was ordered. The ladies principally engaged in 
 securing the color were Mrs. William T. Elmer, Mrs. 
 Charles W. Harris, Mrs. Joseph W. Douglas, and Mrs. 
 John M. Douglas. The flag was a national one, and was 
 made in Miss Spaulding's milliner rooms, where the ladies 
 met daily until they had finished it. It was of silk ribbon, 
 heavily fringed, and was a beautiful specimen of art and 
 taste. Two guidons were also made to accompany it. 
 After the flag was finished, the Rev. Dr. Joseph Cum- 
 mings, then president of Wesleyan University, the late 
 William S. Camp, cashier of the Middlesex County 
 National Bank, and »Samuel C. Hubbard, at that time first 
 selectman of Middletown, were appointed a committee to 
 proceed to Camp Buckingham and present the color on 
 behalf of the ladies, which they did, Dr. Cummings mak- 
 ing the presentation speech, and Colonel J\Iansfield the 
 response in behalf of the regiment. In May, 1863, the 
 regiment marched to the rear of Port Hudson. The regi- 
 mental State flag was left under guard, but the flag pre- 
 sented by the ladies of Middletown was taken to the front 
 
142 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 and carried as the regimental color during its service. At 
 the second assault on Port Hudson, June 14, 1863, the 
 flag and staff received thirty-eight bullet holes. Soon 
 afterwards the regiment had to advance under the most 
 galling fire, and licld the advanced position day and night 
 the balance of the month. On the return of the regiment, 
 after having served ten and a lialf months, the flags were 
 returned with them. The regimental flag was surrendered 
 to the State, and placed in the Arsenal in Hartford. The 
 flag presented by the ladies was returned to Middlctown, 
 and, there being no safe place to keep it, was placed in the 
 custody of Mrs. General Mansfield, Avhere it has since re- 
 mained. It is now in the State Capitol with the regi- 
 mental archives and records. 
 
 THE TWENTY-FIFTH. 
 
 The colors of the Twenty-fifth were at Irish Bend, 
 Baton Rouge, and Port Hudson, and saw hard service in 
 the field. Israel C. Peck of Unionville was the color- 
 bearer at Irish Bend, and had his belt shot aAvay during 
 the engagement. He was but slightly wounded, however, 
 and in the charges on Port Hudson, May 27th and June 
 14th, Sergeant Peck was at his post as usual. He was in 
 service during the Mexican war, and is now past sixty 
 years of age. His physical vigor has been so broken that 
 it is only with the utmost exertion that he is able to get 
 about at all. His old friends in Hartford, out of defer- 
 ence to his service, made arrangements for liim to ride in 
 the procession, and the Twent3^-fifth men rejoiced in hav- 
 ing their old standard bearer with them again. Mr. Ben- 
 jamin F. Wilcox of East Hartford, was also a member of 
 the color guard of the Twenty-fifth, and was wounded at 
 Irish Bend. Colonel George P. Bissell and Major Thomas 
 
HISTORY OF THE CATTLE-FLAGS. 143 
 
 McManus, at present of the military examining board, 
 were both officers in the regiment. 
 
 THE TWENTY-SIXTH. 
 
 The national color of the Twenty-sixth regiment is fairly 
 preserved, but the State color is very much tattered. The 
 regiment was recruited in New London and Windham 
 Counties, and commanded by Col. Thomas G. Kingsley. 
 It participated in the assault on Port Hudson, May 27th, 
 and also June 13 and 14, 1863. In the first assault Col. 
 Kingsley was wounded, Capt. Stanton of Norwich was 
 killed, and Capt. Randall of Groton mortally wounded. 
 The color-bearers were A. H. Wilcox and William Tooker. 
 
 THE TWENTY-SEVENTH. 
 
 The colors of the Twenty-seventh were carried through 
 Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville,and Gettysburg, Sergeant 
 Brand being the national standard-bearer. 
 
 At Chaucellorsville eight companies of the regiment 
 were captured, and incarcerated in rebel prisons. Fortu- 
 nately the colors, which at Fredericksburg had been pushed 
 to the advance line of battle, were saved, being with the 
 two companies on picket duty at the time the bulk of the 
 command was captured. At Gettysburg both of these 
 companies were in the engagement. Many of the regi- 
 mental officers had been paroled and exchanged, and were 
 back with the remnant of the organization. During the 
 contest Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. Merwin and Captain J. 
 Chapman were killed. At the reunion of the regiment 
 last yoar it was voted to have memorial stones erected 
 over the spot where these brave officers fell. Among the 
 officers of the Twenty-seventh still living may be mentioned 
 Colonel Bostwick of New York, Paymaster-General Frank 
 
144 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 D. Sloat, and Assistant Adjutant-General Simeon J. Fox, 
 on the staff of Governor Andrews. The Twenty-seventh 
 was one of the best nine months regiments in the field, 
 and rendered gallant service at Fredericksburg. 
 
 THE TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT. 
 
 The colors of the Twenty-eighth regiment are in a good 
 state of preservation, and were carried unfurled along the 
 line of march from the Arsenal to the State Capitol. The 
 color-bearers were J. H. C. Bachelder, L. E. Bissell, and 
 Alonzo Morgan. The Twenty-eighth was composed of 
 eight companies recruited in Litchfield and Fairfield 
 counties, and was commanded by Colonel S. P. Ferris of 
 Stamford. The regiment was in the second assault on 
 Port Hudson, June 14, 1863, and behaved with gallantry. 
 
 THE TWENTY-NINTH. 
 
 Tlie colors of the Twenty-ninth regiment were presented 
 by Fred. Douglass in an able and sensible speech in 
 behalf of the colored women of New Haven, just before 
 the command left for the front. The regiment received 
 especial commendation for good behavior at the capture of 
 Fort Harrison, at Chapin Farm, bd'ore Richmond, and 
 particularly for gallantry in action at Darby-town road. 
 Wlicn Richmond fell the Twenty-ninth was the first infan- 
 try that entered the city. Colonel David Torrance, Secre- 
 tary of State, Colonel W. B. Wooster of General Hawley's 
 "staff, Rev. E. W. Bacon of New London, and George H. 
 Goodwin of Burnside, were ofiicers in the Twenty-ninth. 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 
 
 CHAPTER Vlil. 
 
 connecticdt's military organizations in the war. — 
 
 comprehensive sketches of their services. from 
 
 peace to camp, battle, and prison pen. 
 
 (From Daily Couraut, WcdnesJclay.* 
 
 COMPLETE military histories of the military organiz- 
 ations that went from Connecticut to the war of the 
 rebellion have, only in a few exceptional cases, been com- 
 piled. Less than a dozen single regimental histories were 
 prepared for sale among the surviving members and their 
 friends, but tlie prospective returns were not such as to 
 induce the thorough investigation essential to making them 
 accurate and complete in every respect. A regulation in 
 force during the war required that reports be made by each 
 organization to the adjutant-general of Connecticut at 
 stated mtervals, but this, in the confusion of active war- 
 fare, was very frequently neglected, and many reports 
 made gave merely statistical information regarding the 
 commands, and lists of casualties. In 1869, under a res- 
 olution of the general assembly, Adjutant-General Liger- 
 soll published a catalogue of nearly 1,000 pages, designed 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 147 
 
 to give a complete record of each Connecticut soldier dur- 
 ing liis term of service. The immediate object of tlic 
 work was accomplished with creditable accuracy, but Ihc 
 sketches of the services of the organizations preceding 
 the lists of their members are meagre. As a rule, little 
 more than a page is devoted to each sketch, and important 
 facts in Ihe histories of the regiments are overlooked. The 
 "Military and Civil History of Connecticut in the Civil 
 War" covers such a wide ground, and devotes so much 
 space to mere incidents and relations of individual exi)cri- 
 cnces, that as a work of reference in ascertaining the move- 
 ments- of any particular organization it is almost without 
 value. 
 
 In the sketches given below every available source that 
 promised to be authentic has been drawn upon, but they 
 were so few and so slender that perfection was not to be 
 anticipated. However, the reader will find, as a rule, the 
 main facts in the history of each organization — the date of 
 formation, its departure for the Held, its principal move- 
 ments during its service, the engagements in which it took 
 part, lists of the field and staff officers, the aggregate 
 number of men whose names appeared upon its rolls by 
 original enlistment, rc-enlistment, or as recruits ; also the 
 casualties. In the latter feature no information is any- 
 where available showing the number taken prisoners in 
 each organization. 
 
 9 
 
148 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 THREE MONTHS TROOPS. 
 
 FIRST INFANTRY. 
 
 THIS was recruited mainly from the volunteer militia, 
 and cml)raced companies from Hartford and adjacent 
 towns — Watcrbury, Danbury, and Norwalk, Meriden,, New- 
 Britain, and Bridgeport. Attached were two "rifle com- 
 panies," recruited principally in Hartford County, and 
 Bridgeport and New Haven. The regiment, numbering 
 780 men, armed with Sharps' rifles and Springfield mus- 
 kets, was mustered in about April 20, 1861, and left 
 New Haven May 0th, on the steamer Bienville, for the 
 scat of war. The commandant was Colonel Daniel Tyler, 
 a graduate of West Point, who had served in the regular 
 ai-my. He was promoted to be a brigadier-general May 
 lOlh, and was succeeded by Colonel George S. Burnliam, 
 an officer of long militia service He commanded at Bull 
 Run. The regiment was the first to ascend the Potomac, 
 and after some time in camp under instruction, moved 
 July 21, 1861, on the Warrenton road to Bull Run, 
 where the enemy was entrenched. Under severe fire at 
 times, the regiment marched and countermarched until 4 
 p. M. Orders to retreat were given, and altliough hotly 
 pursued, the First lost only eight wounded and nine cap- 
 tured. After a brief rest at Centcrville the regiment 
 returned to its former camp at Falls Church, and remained 
 tliere several days. The term of service expiring, the 
 First was sent north, and mustered out at New Haven, 
 July 31, 1861. 
 
lit §#■■. iavalr ▼• 
 
 
 September 17tli, 1879. 
 
 B-^TTIjES 
 
 Mcdowell, 
 cross kev^s. 
 port republic, 
 culpepper c. h. 
 cedar mountain, 
 second bull run. 
 leesburg. 
 chantilly. 
 south mountain, 
 chancellorsville. 
 dumfries, 
 franklin, 
 strasburg. 
 harrisonburg, 
 bolivar heights, 
 waterford. 
 charlestown, va. 
 craig's church, 
 todd's tavern. 
 
 MINE RUN. 
 WILDERNESS. 
 SPOTTSYLVANTA C. H. 
 MEADOW BRIDGE. 
 HANOVER C. H. 
 ASHLAND ist. 
 ROANOKE BRIDGE. 
 
 REAMS STATION. 
 GAINES MILLS. 
 YELLOW TAVERN. 
 HANE'S SHOP. 
 SMITH'S STORE. 
 STRAWBERRY HILL. 
 COLD HARBOR. 
 NOTTOWAY C. H. 
 STONY CREEK. 
 SUMMIT POINT. 
 KEARNEYVILLE. 
 OPPEQUAN CREEK. 
 FRONT ROYAL. 
 WINCHESTER. 
 FISHER'S HILL. 
 ASHLAND 2d. 
 CEDAR CREEK. 
 BACK ROAD. 
 WOODSTOCK. 
 WAYNESBORO. 
 HARPER'S FARMS. 
 FIVE FORKS. 
 JETERSVILLE. 
 SAILORS' CREEK. 
 APPOMATTOX. 
 
 FiKriT Connecticut CAVAiajv Badoe. 
 
TUB BOYS IN liLIJR. 151 
 
 SECOND INFANTRY. 
 
 TfTIS, likotlio First U(!^iin(!ni;, avuh i-ocruilod from llio 
 volunteer niiliiiu, !ui(| einhrjieed six rille ninl lour in- 
 fuiiUy eonij)iini(;.s. 'JVo (toinpiiiiics liiid Spriim-licld iiml 
 tlic olliers .Sharps' ri(l(;s. The I'ille (;oiiij»aiiies were Iroiu 
 Norwich and vicinily, ^icw London, Ilartl'oid eonid.y, VVin- 
 sted, and New Haven, and ih<; ini';inlry eompanies J'roiu 
 Middl(!town, New Hartford, VVin(;heHter and Noj-folk, and 
 New Haven and Derby. With 780 men in ihe ranks t!u; 
 regiment left New Haven l)y Hleani<;r M:iy lOlh nh<! day 
 following the departinc of Ih*; i^'irsl), will) Colon<d Alfi'ed 
 n. Terry, of that eily, in eomm:ind. He liad stiidied 
 militaiy affairs in this eounliy and J<]nrof)C, had served in 
 the state militia, and at Ihe hreMkin^*; out of the j-elxtllion 
 was colonel of the Second Regiment of slale Jiiilitia. 
 After some time spent in camp at Gienwood, Wanhinj^toii, 
 under instruction, the i-egiment particijtated in llie hattle 
 of ]3ull Run. (Jliaplain Ivldy, (/;i|»(ain Kellogg, and nine 
 men were taken prisoners. 'I'hc casualties reported were 
 two killed and five wounded. When the regiirient's term 
 expired the men were mustered out at New Haven, August 
 7, 18G1. AVhile the regiment was in service George H. 
 Tracy, a private of Company G, of New London, was 
 appointed a lieutenant in the regular army. 
 
 THIRD INFANTRY. 
 
 THE Third was recruited fiom Norwalk, New Ifavcn, 
 Jiridgeport, Danbury, Sow Fairfield, Hartford, Meri- 
 den, Norwich, and. vicinity, and Stamford and Norwalk, 
 
152 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 and embraced five rifle and four infantry companies, 
 aggregating about 750 men. The arms "were the ohi 
 United States smooth-bore muskets. The rendezvous was 
 on the old fair grounds on Albany avenue, Hartford. 
 Colonel John Arnold, long prominent in the Counecticut 
 militia service, and an instructor in military schools, was 
 given the command, but resigned within a few days, on 
 account of ill-health. Colonel John L. Chatfield suc- 
 ceeded him, and although almost a martinet in discipline, 
 was popular with the regiment. The Third was in the 
 battle of Bull Run, and suffered quite as severely as the 
 other Connecticut regiments. Surgeon McGregor of 
 Thompson, was captured, but released. The casualties in 
 the battle were : Killed, four ; woun'ded, thirteen; captured, 
 eighteen; missing, six. The regiment returned to Con- 
 necticut on the expiration of tlie three months' term, and 
 was mustered out at Hartford, Auo-ust 12, 1861. 
 
 THREE YEARS' TROOPS. 
 
 FIRST SQUADRON CONNECTICUT CAVALRY. 
 
 IN August, 1861, upon the application of Captain W. 
 H. Mallory, autliority was given to recruit the First 
 suqadron of Connecticut cavalry to compose a part of a 
 volunteer regiment of cavalry to be raised in different 
 States. It was agreed that the squadron should be offi- 
 cered by officers appointed by the governor of Connecti- 
 cut, and that the enlisted men should receive tlie State 
 bounties. The government failed in its agreement as to 
 
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 appointment of officers, excepting the original appoint- 
 ments, and the sqnadron was eventually attached to tlie 
 Second New York Cavalry, (Harris' Light,) and was 
 known as Companies C and D. It was counted to the 
 quota of tliat State, and Connecticut received no credit 
 from the general government for bounties paid tlie enlisted 
 men. No official reports of its operations were ever re- 
 ceived, but the State records show that it was mustered 
 out June 23, 1865. Company C was originally com- 
 manded by Captain William H. Mallory of Hartford, who, 
 in 1862, was appointed major of the regiment, and 
 was succeeded by Captain L. H. Southard of Hartford. 
 This company was recruited in Hartford County. Philo 
 L. Ives of Hartford was orderly sergeant at the original 
 muster. The company during its service lost five men 
 killed in battle, two died at Andersonville and twenty- 
 nine re-enlisted as veterans. Company D included men 
 from all sections of tlie State. It went out in command 
 of Captain Thomas B. Thornett of Hartford, who was 
 discharged in 1862, and was succeeded by First Lieu- 
 tenant Coon of Waterbury. Coon was succeeded by 
 Secontl Lieutenant J. Nelson Decker of Hartford, who 
 was killed at Falmouth, Va., in 1862, and was succeeded 
 by Orderly Sergeant Daniel Whittaker of Ashford, killed 
 at Adie, Va., the following year. During its service the 
 company report shows : Killed, eight ; died at Anderson- 
 ville, seven; died at various other places, seven; total 
 deaths, twenty-three ; captured, ten; missing, six; re-en- 
 listed in the veteran corps, seventeen. 
 
154 IIISTOKY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 FIRST CAVALRY. 
 
 THIS was originally a battalion of fonr companies, one 
 from each congressional district, and left West Meri- 
 den in February, 1862, for Wheeling, W. A^a., with 346 
 officers and men. In General Schenck's brigade, the 
 battalion was engaged the following May in a fight with 
 Stonewall Jackson's troops, and the batteries of McDowell 
 and Franklin. Tlie next nionth the battalion joined 
 General Fremont in his march across the mountains into 
 the Shenandoah valley to relieve General Banks, and was 
 subsequently attaclied to General SigcFs command, and 
 participated in the operations under General Pope, includ- 
 ing the battles along the Rapidan and Rappahannock, and 
 at Bull Run and Chantilly. The next assignment was to 
 duty as provost guard in Baltimore, where the battalion 
 was increased to a full regiment of twelve companies. In 
 the spring of 1863 it joined the army of the Potomac, and 
 in xiugust, 1864, was transferred to the army of the Shen- 
 andoah. It remained in service until mustered out at 
 AVashington, August 2, 1865, and the men were finally 
 discharged at New Haven. Upon the request of Colonel 
 Ives, the officers and men were permitted to bring their 
 horses home with them, many desiring to purchase ; this 
 favor, it is said, was granted to no other cavalry regiment 
 in the service. The regiment participated in about thirty 
 battles, from May 8, 1862, to April 6, 1865, including 
 McDowell, Franklin, Strasburg, Harrisonburg, Cross Keys, 
 Port Republic, Bolivar Heights, Waterford, Craig's Church, 
 Spottsylvania Court House, Meadow Bridge, Hanover 
 Court House, Ashland (twice), Old Church Tavern, 
 Reams' Station, Winchester, Kerneysville, Port Royal, 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 155 
 
 Cedar Run Church, Cedar Creek, Woodstock, Waynes- 
 boro, Five Forks, Sweet House Creek, and Harper's Farm, 
 all in A'irginia. This regiment was heavily reinforced 
 during its term of service. The original four companies 
 (346 men) received 275 recruits, the additional eight com- 
 panies when the regiment was organized 1,040 men, and 
 at various periods 750 other men enlisted for it, showing 
 a total of nearly 2,500 enlistments to the credit of the 
 organization. 
 
 Tiie casualties reported were : Killed in action, 24 ; died 
 of wounds, 8; died of disease, 125; missing at musteu 
 out, 59; discharged for various reasons, 436. The records 
 show 37 deaths at Andersonville, 7 in Salisbury, and 1 in 
 Florence. 
 
 FIRST LIGHT BATTERY. 
 
 THIS was organized in October, 1861, and left for 
 Port Royal, S. C, with 156 men. The organization 
 remained in the Department of the South until April, 
 1864, when it was sent to Virginia and reported to Gen- 
 eral Terry, commanding at Gloucester Point, near Fortress 
 Monroe. May 4, 1864, it went to Bermuda Hundred, and 
 six days later participated in tlie battle of Chester Station, 
 on the line of the Richmond and Petersburg road, repel- 
 ling two fierce attempts of the enemy to capture the post. 
 After temporary service on the turnpike the battery went 
 back to the Tenth army corps in time to participate in the 
 battle of Proctor's Creek, where Lieutenant Metcalf of 
 Hartford received his death wound. The battery was 
 kept in active service until the following October, when 
 twelve-pounder Napoleons were substituted for the James 
 
156 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 rifles that liad been used. In December, being transferred 
 meanwhile to the 25th corps, the battery was assigned to 
 a position near the James river, in the rear of Fort Burn- 
 ham. It served in this vicinity until mustered out in 
 June, 1805. 
 
 The principal engagements participated in were : James 
 Island (twice), Secessionville, and John's Island, all in 
 South Carolina, and Chester Station, Proctor's Creek, 
 Four Mile Creek, Siege of Petersburg, and Darbytown 
 Road, all in Virginia. 
 
 . The casualties reported during service were: Died of 
 wounds, 1; died of disease, 21; discharged prior to mus- 
 ter out of battery, 98. 
 
 The men of this battery were from all sections of the 
 State, and rendezvoused at West ]\Icriden. At various 
 times 140 recruits joined it, and in December, 1863, 46 of 
 the original members re-enlisted as veterans. 
 
 SECOND LIGHT BATTERY. 
 
 THE Second Connecticut light battery, composed of 
 two Bridgeport militia organizations, was organized 
 in August, 1862. It embraced, men liailing not only from 
 Bridgeport, but adjacent towns, and went out about 150 
 strong, with Captain J. W. Sterling in command. March- 
 ing orders were received October 15, 1862, and the bat- 
 tery proceeded to Washington and was assigned to the 
 army of the Potomac. The following June the battery 
 reported to General Robert 0. Tyler, commanding the 
 "Artillery reserve," and was engaged at Gettysburg, hav- 
 ing three men wounded. After wearily traversing Mary- 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 157 
 
 land for a month the battery camped on Meridian hill, 
 near Washington. In August it was sent to New York 
 during the draft troubles, and returned to Wasliington in 
 October. February, 1864, found it transfen-ed to the 
 department of the Gulf, and stationed at Brasliear City, 
 La., and subsequently at Algiers, La., and Dau|)hin Island, 
 Mobile liarbor. August Gth, the battery took an active 
 part in tlie engagement at Fort Gaines, and on ilio lOtli 
 in the reduction of Fort Morgan. September 8 Hi, it 
 returned to Louisiana and served until the following Feb- 
 ruary. Then it was sent to Florida, served at Pensacola 
 and elsewhere, and early in April was engaged with 
 the enemy near Blakely, Ala., the 9th of that month Avit- 
 nessing the carrying of their works by assault. After 
 some further unimportant service, the battery returned to 
 Connecticut, and was mustered out at New Haven, August 
 9, 1865. The only engagements in which it participated 
 were those mentioned. About 90 recruits joined the bat- 
 tery during its term of service. 
 
 The casualties reported were : Killed in action, 1 ; died 
 of wounds, 1 ; died of disease, 18; discharged prior to 
 muster out of battery, 37. The single member killed was 
 J. S. Mills, Bridgeport, within a few days of the close of 
 the war. 
 
 FIRST HEAVY ARTILLERY. 
 
 THE First Connecticut heavy artillery was one of the 
 largest organizations from this State, and had an 
 active career. It was organized in tlie spring of 1861, as 
 the Fourtli infantry, under command of Colonel Levi 
 Woodhouse of Hartford, and left Hartford by boat for the 
 
I'iS HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 seat of Avar in June. For six nu)ntlis it did service as an 
 infantry regiment, and in January, 18 .'2, by special 
 orders from the war department, was changed to a lieavy 
 arlillery organization to consist of twelve companies of 
 l.'O men each. After short service in tlic fortifications 
 around AVashington, the regiment, by the resignation of 
 (\)loncl Woodliouse, having passed under the ct)nHnand of 
 Colonel Robert O. Tyler, one of the best discii^linarians in 
 tlie army, entered the Peninsular campaign Avith seventy- 
 one guns in a siege train. It took a prominent part in 
 the siege of Yorktown early in May, 18(52, and in the 
 scries of engagements at Hanover court-house, Gaines' 
 Mills, Malvern Hill, etc. Its services were recognized by 
 an order directing these names to be emblazoned on its 
 colors. In November, 18G2, Colonel Tyler was promoted 
 to be a brigadier-general, and was succeeded by Captain 
 Henry L. Abbott, of the United States topographical 
 engineers. Two companies remaining to participate in 
 the bombardment of Fredericksburg, the remainder of tlic 
 regiment serveil temporarily in the fortifications around 
 Wasliiugton, until ]May, 18G4, mIicu, wiUi 1,700 men, it 
 re]>orted to Ceneral Butler near IJennuda llunih'cd. Tliis 
 month o50 men Avero discharged on expiration of llieir 
 term of service. Recruits soon brouglit it up to tlie max- 
 imum, however, and during its service companies from 
 the Fourth and Thirteentli of Ncav York artillery were 
 temporarily attaclied, and in November, 1804, tlie Tliird 
 Connecticut independent battery. In Jf^nuary, 180'), a 
 part of the regiment participated in the operations against 
 Fort Fisher, N. C Tlie closing movements Avere before 
 Petersburg and Riclimoiul, and in September, 1865, the 
 regiment Avas mustered out, having been in service four 
 vears and four months. 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 159 
 
 The principal engagements were: Siege of Yorktown, 
 Hanover Court House, Gaines' Mills, Malvern Hill, Siege 
 of Fredericksburg (December, 1P62), Before Fredericks- 
 burg (April 28 to June 13, 1803), Kelley's Ford, Orange 
 Court House, Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, Fort 
 Fisher. 
 
 The regiment went out -with about 1,200 oilicers and 
 men and received over 1,800 recruits during its term of 
 service. The casualties were : Killed in action, 2G; died of 
 wounds, 23 ; died of disease, 101 ; discharged ])rior to lims- 
 ter out of regiment, 1,071. A band with D. W. Clark of 
 Torrington, leader, went out with the regiment, but was 
 mustered out after a year's service. 
 
 SECOND HEAVY ARTILLERY. 
 
 THIS regiment was recruited in Litchfield county, as 
 the Nineteenth infantry, and was commanded by 
 Colonel L. W. Wessells, under whose command it left for 
 Washington with 891 men, in September, 1802. The war 
 department assigned the regiment to the army of the Poto- 
 mac, and it was stationed at Alexandria, Ya. Two months 
 later it was changed to a heavy artillery organization, and 
 during 1863 was engaged in garrison duty in the defense 
 of Washington south of the Potomac, in forts North, Ells- 
 worth, Lyon, Worth, Farnsworth, Williams, and Williard, 
 and was the First artillery in the second brigade of De 
 Russey's division. In the winter of 1863-4 the regiment 
 was recruited to the maxinuun of an artillery regiment, 
 and in May, 1864, joined the Sixth army corps in Virginia, 
 and had its first heavy engagement June 1st, at Cold Har- 
 bor. Col. Elisha S. Kellogg of Derby, and Capt. L. Wad- 
 
160 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 hams of Litchfield, were killed, and the total loss was 285 
 killed, wounded, and missing. The regiment remained 
 with the Sixth corps imtil the close of the war, and in 
 February, 1865, was in an engagement at Hatcher's Run, 
 Va., and, in IMarch and April, near Petersburg and at Sail- 
 or's Creek. The engagement at Cold Harbor was the 
 most severe in which the regiment participated. The 
 enemy was entrenched in rifle pits in a pine wood, and the 
 Second charged across an open field, at the end of which 
 was an abattis. Here a terrible musket light ensued, but 
 the rebels in the entrenchments all along the regiment's 
 line, to the mmiber of nearly 600, were captured and sent 
 to the rear. After innnunity from loss for twenty-one 
 months, the regiment lost heavily this day. Killed, 2 
 officers and 72 men ; wounded, 4 ofliccrs and 181 men ; 
 missing, 1 ofilcer and 25 men. 
 
 At Winchester, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek, Ya.,the 
 regiment had a brisk battle with the enemy and sustained 
 severe loss. 
 
 The infantry regiment went into service, as before stated,- 
 with 801 men, but the whole number of officers and men 
 who tierved from first to last in the regiment was 2,719. 
 The casualties during the term of service were : Killed in 
 action, 143 ; died of wounds, 80 ; died of disease, 186 ; dis- 
 charged prior to muster out of regiment, 907. 
 
 • FOURTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THE fourth was organized, under Colonel Levi Wood- 
 house, as an infantry regiment, and left the State in 
 June, 1.V61. Tbe January following it was organized as 
 the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery. [See sketch of tluxt 
 regiment.] 
 
THE BOYrt IN 15LUK. IGl 
 
 FIFTH INFvVNTRY. 
 
 THE Fifth in fan! IT, oroaui/ed oarly in the summer of 
 ISGI, was orii;-inally recruited in Hartford as the 
 First Oouuecticut Revolviuo- irillo rci>-imeut, but a uiisuu- 
 derstandiui>- oceurriuo-. Colonel Sauuud Colt's eonnnissiou 
 was revoked, TOO recruits disbanded, and the men reor- 
 ganized as the Fifth infantry under couunand of Colonel 
 Orris S. Ferry, afterward United States seuatt)r. It left 
 the State July 29, 1801, under orders to report to (General 
 Banks at Harper's Ferry. March 1, 1802, the r(«,oinu>ut 
 crossed the Potomac at Willinmsport, ]\hl., drove the 
 enemy from Wincliestcr and occupied that imi)ortaut post. 
 While there, Colonel Ferry was promoted to be a brigadier- 
 general, and was succeeded in command by Lieutenant- 
 Colonel George D. Chapman of Hartford, who had been 
 promoted from major in 1801, when Lieuteuaut-Colouel 
 Iviugsbmy of Frauklin, was appointed colonel of tlu^ 
 Eleventh infantry. 'Die regiment recrossed tiie Potomac 
 in May, with the entire army, after a wcll-fouglit battle, 
 and rendered eflicieut service in coveriiig the retreat. Its 
 loss was 88 men, killed, wnunded, and captured. I'arly 
 in the following August the regiment was engaged in the 
 battle of Cedar ^lountain, with 400 men, and had a hot 
 fight, every connnissioncd officer, with three excerptions, 
 being killed, wounded, or captured. Among tlie killed 
 were Major Blake and Lieutenant Putton of New Haven, 
 and Adjutant Heber S. Smith of Hartford. The follow- 
 ing spring the regiment Avas under :Mi-Clellan when his 
 army moved into Maryland. In May, it was in the battle 
 of Chanc(dloi'sville, Va., losing 00 men, and in duly took 
 an active part in the battle of Cettysburg. There, owing 
 
1C2 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 to the favorable disposition of its men, the losses were 
 trifling, only three killed and five missing. The follow- 
 ing winter the Fifth was transferred to Sherman's com- 
 mand, in the department of the Cumberland. About this 
 time 2c0 of the men whose terms had expired reenlisted. 
 The whole number of men serving in the regiment from 
 first to last was 2,061. In May, 1864, the regiment par- 
 ticipated in the battle of Resaca, Ga., and in the succeed- 
 ing months in other affrays, through to March, 1865, when 
 Johnson surrendered in North Carolina. The regiment 
 was mustered out July 19, 1865. 
 
 The flags of the Fifth entered Winchester March 12, 
 1862, borne by the first troops which occupied that famous 
 city after the evacuation l^y the three months' men under 
 Patterson. They were honorably defended in Shield's 
 battle with Jackson the same month, and on the retreat 
 of Banks down the valley soon after. August 9, 1862, 
 the colors of this regiment were again the center of one 
 of the fiercest contests of the war. The regiment, in 
 Crawford's brigade, Banks' corps, under command of 
 Colonel -Chapman, was ordered to charge a battery, and it 
 responded with the enthusiasm and gallantry so often seen 
 wherever Connecticut men shared the honors of the battle- 
 field. Color bearer Sergeant E. B. Jones of Wilton, was 
 first shot dead ; Sergeant James Hewison was shot in both 
 legs, but lived to return home, dying soon after the Avar in 
 New Ilavcn by accident. Then followed a desperate strug- 
 gle. Captain Corliss, of Company C, grasped the regi- 
 mental color, and we believe it was finally brought off the 
 field by Sergeant (afterwards lieutenant) Smith. Color 
 Corporal Daniel L. Smith, and S. D. Taylor were killed 
 in their defense — in fact all of the guard, with one excep- 
 tion, were either killed or wounded. The national flag 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. IHO 
 
 was captured by the enemy, and is now in the possession 
 of the government. General Hawley wrote, asking per- 
 mission for the regiment to carry it, but was refused. 
 Sergeant John O'Brien and Sergeant John M. Cahill 
 brought the colors of the regiment home; the former 
 died in Norwich after the war, and the latter lives in this 
 city. 
 
 Its principal engagements were : Winchester and Cedar 
 Mountain, Va., in 1862, Chancellorsville, Va., and Gettys- 
 burg, Pa., in 1863, Resaca, Dallas, Marietta, Peach Tree 
 Creek, and Atlanta, Ga., in 1864, and Chesterfield Court 
 House, S. C, and Silver Run, N. C, in the spring of 1865. 
 
 The casualties were: Killed in action, 93; died of 
 wounds, 29 ; died of disease, 81 ; discharged prior to mus- 
 ter out, 600. Several men died prisoners at Anderson- 
 ville. The regimental band, Thomas Worsley of Meriden, 
 leader, was mustered out in August, 1862. 
 
 SIXTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THE Sixth Connecticut was organized in August, 1861, 
 under the direction of Colonel John L. Chatlield of 
 Waterbury (transferred from the Tliird regiment of three 
 months' men), and left New Haven September 17, 1861, 
 for Washington, with 1,008 men on the rolls. Being 
 assigned to the Department of the South, it was in the 
 battles at James Island, June, 1862, and Pocotaligo, Octo- 
 ber, 1862. In this latter affair, Colonel Chathcld and 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Speidel were severely wounded. In 
 1863 the Sixth participated in the operations against 
 Charleston, and was in the assault on the Morris Island 
 
16 1 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 batteries in July. Colonel Chatfield was wounded in the 
 second assault on Fort Wagner, and died at his home in 
 Waterbury tlie following month. In the spring of 1864 
 the regiment went to Fortress Monroe, and on the 6th of 
 May proceeded into the interior, where it was engaged in 
 reconnoissances, destruction of the enemy's railroads, and 
 harassing their forces generally. The regiment was 
 engaged in the charge upon and capture of the enemy's 
 rifle-pits near Chester Station on the 20th, and in the 
 various operations lost 157 men during the months of 
 May and June. From this time until January, 1865, the 
 regiment was in various operations in Southeast Virginia, 
 and took part in the several engagements before Peters- 
 burg and Richmond. It was then ordered to North Caro- 
 lina, and had its last fighting at the capture of Fort 
 Fisher. In August the regiment was mustered out at 
 New Haven. 
 
 The principal engagements were: James Island, Seces- 
 sionville and Pocotaligo, S. C, 1862; Jacksonville, Fla., 
 Morris Island and Fort Wagner, S. C, 1863 ; Chester 
 Station, Drury's Bluff, Deep Bottom, Bermuda Hundied, 
 Deep Run, Deep Dottom, Siege of Petersburg, Chapin's 
 Farm, New Richmond, Newmarket Road, Darbytown Road 
 and Charles City,ya., May to October, 1864; Fort Fisher, 
 and N. E. branch Cape Fear River, N. C, 1865. 
 
 In December, 1863, 205 members reenlisted as vet- 
 erans, and 1,813 different men were borne on the rolls at 
 various times. The casualties were: Killed in action, 42; 
 died of wounds, 46; died of disease, 119; discharged 
 prior to muster-out, 663; missing at that time, 23. The 
 regimental band, John P. King of Hartford, leader, was 
 mustered out in September, 1862. 
 
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 SEVENTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THIS regiment was laracly composed of three months' 
 men who retnrnecl liome in tlic summer of 18G1, 
 and re-enlisted. Colonel A. H. Terry Avas transferred 
 from the Second to command the Seventh, and Captain 
 Joseph R. Hawley of the First was appointed lieutenant- 
 colonel. Septemher 18, 18G1, the regiment started for 
 the seat of war, and, joining the Port Royal expedition, 
 was the first to land and plant their colors on South Caro- 
 lina soil at Fort Walker, which had been bombarded and 
 surrendered. The governor, upon receipt of the news, 
 issued a congratulatory order, Avhich was read to each 
 Connecticut regiment in the field. For four months the 
 regiment was in the siege of Fort Pulaski and garrisoned 
 it upon its surrender, in April, 1862. The following 
 month Colonel Terry was appointed brigadier-general, and 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Plawley succeeded to the colonelcy. 
 In June the regiment lost 83 men in the battle at James 
 Island, and in October 29 at Pocotaligo. 
 
 In February, 1863, the regiment was ordered to Fernan- 
 dina. Colonel Ilawley commanding the post. Four com- 
 panies under Lieutenant-Colonel Rodman were ordered to 
 Hilton Head. Colonel Hawley with six was put in com- 
 mand of St. Augustine in June. In July Rodman's 
 detachment was first to land on Morris Island, and July 
 10th led the forlorn hope against Fort Wagner, losing 111 
 out of 180 men; Rodman was badly wounded. In the 
 language of General Strong it " covered itself with glory.' 
 Colonel Hawley with the six companies came up to Morris 
 Island, and the regiment shared in the heavy labors end- 
 ing in the surrcu'ler of the whole of Morris Island, 
 10 
 
IGG HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 including Forts Wagner nnd Gregg. It drilled a month 
 in small boats, preparing for a night assault on Fort 
 Snmtcr, but the purpose was aV)andoncd. In February, 
 1864, it \yas in the battle of Olustce, Colonel Ilawley 
 commanding a brigade where the loss of the whole force 
 was 88 per cent. 
 
 In May, 1864, it went to Virginia, in Ilawley's (2d) 
 brigade, Tei-iy's (8d) division, Tenth Corps, Army of the 
 James. It was engaged at Chester Station, Drury's Bluff, 
 near I\Mersburg, with losses aggregating 320, fought at 
 De(;p Bottom and Deep Bun, August 14th and 16th. In 
 August it moved to the Petersburg lines. In September 
 Ifawley became a brigadier, and Lieutenant-Colonel Rod- 
 man took command and was offered the colonelcy, but his 
 wound compelled his resignation, and S. S. Atwell became 
 colonel. In September and October it was heavily en- 
 gaged at Chapin's Farm, Darbytown Road, Charles City 
 Road, and New Market. It went to New York for a week 
 as part of a picked brigade, under Ilawley, to keep the 
 ]w,\vc during the presidential election. 
 
 In January, 1865, it bore a brilliant part in the capture 
 of Fort Fisher, and afterward did its last firing at the 
 enemy in the capture of Wilmington, February 22, 1865. 
 It served four months in the brigade under Ilawley, occu- 
 pying Wilmington, and the southeastern part of North 
 Carolina, the city being a base of supplies for Sherman. 
 It was nmstcred out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Its engagements were: Fort Pulaski, Ga., James Island, 
 S. C, June 16, Pocotaligo, October 20, 1862; in 1868, 
 Morris Island, Fort Wagner and the long seige of Charles- 
 ton; in 1S64, Olustce, Fla., Februaiy 20th, in Virginia, 
 Bermuda Hundred (several engagements), Cliester Sta- 
 tion, Drcwry's Bluff, Deep Bottom, Deep Run (^or Flus- 
 
Keuimentai. Badges. 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 169 
 
 scr's Mills) Siege of Petersburg, Chapin's Farm, New 
 Market Road, Darbytown Road, Charles City Road; in 
 1865, Fort Fisher and Wilmington. 
 
 During its service, 333 of the original members reen- 
 listed, and 739 recruits joined, making, with the original, 
 1,018 men, 2,000 enlistments, and 1,735 men who were in 
 its ranks. The casualties were: Killed in action, 90; 
 died of wounds, 44; died of disease, 179; discharged 
 prior to muster out, 587 ; missing at that date, 40. 
 
 EIGHTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THIS regiment was recruited at Camp Buckingham, 
 Hartford, and went to the war under command of 
 Colonel Edward Harland of Norwich, who held a com- 
 mission as Captain in the Third. Numbering 1,027 men, 
 armed with rifled muskets, the regiment left Connecticut 
 October 17, 1801, and went to Anappolis, Md., where it 
 formed a part of Burnside's corps. Its earliest services 
 were in the battles of Newberne, N. C, March 14, 1862, 
 and the seige of Fort Macon the following month. It 
 accompanied General Burnsidc when he was ordered to 
 join the army of the Potomac, after the series of battles 
 before Richmond, and subsequently went with the corps 
 into Maryland. At Antietam, in September, 1862, the 
 regiment lost: Killed, 1 officer. Lieutenant Marvin Wait 
 of Norwich, and 33 men ; wounded, 10 officers and 129 
 men; missing 21 men — total, 194. In December, the 
 Eighth was engaged at Fredericksburg, but suffered 
 slightly, and in February, lS'63, was sent to Southeast 
 Virginia. In April, the regiment was in the fight at Fort 
 
170 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Ilager, Va., and remained in Virginia until January, 1864. 
 It then returned to Connecticut on veteran furlough, 310 
 men having rciinlisted as veterans. In March, it returned 
 to its old camp near Portsmouth, Va., and after outpost 
 and picket duty at Deep Creek and vicinity, was in the 
 battle at Walthall Junction, May 0th, and lost 80 men. 
 Colonel Harland having been promoted to be a brigadier- 
 general, the regiment was at this time in command of 
 Colonel John E. Ward, who was severely wounded by a 
 shell, at the battle named. A week later, the regiment 
 participated in the engagement at Fort Darling, and on 
 the niglit of the 16th returned within the fortifications, 
 the men worn out with eight days' constant warfare. In 
 this short time the Eighth lost one-third of its fighting 
 strength. Early in June it was engaged with the enemy 
 at Cold Harbor, and from .June 16th to August 27tli in 
 skirmishes and siege work around Petersburg, losing 
 heavily. The following four weeks were spent on the 
 James river, picketing the Bermuda Hundred post, and 
 on the 29th of September the regiment lost 73 men in 
 the storming of Battery Harrison. This Avas the last 
 general engagement of the regiment, which was mustered 
 out December 12, 1865, 
 
 Its principal engagements were : Newberne and Fort 
 Macon, N. C, Antietam, Md., and Fredericksburg, Va., in 
 1802, Fort Hager, 1863, Walthall Junction, Fort Darling, 
 Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Fort Harrison, Va., in 1864. 
 The causaltics were : Killed in action, 72 ; died of wounds, 
 40; died of disease, 132; discharged prior to muster out, 
 610 ; missing at that date, 11. 
 
TUL] BOY.i IN 1;LUE. 171 
 
 NINTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THE Ninth was organized as an " Irish" regiment in 
 September, 18G1, and was reei'nitcd at Camp Eng- 
 lish, New Haven. Colonel Caliill of New Haven, had h)ng 
 been connected with tlio state militia as captain of the 
 Emmet Gnards, and Lientenant-Colonel Fitzgibbons an<l 
 Major Frye had been captains in the Connecticut three- 
 months' troops at the first battle of Bull Run. The Ninth, 
 845 strong, was sent to Lowell, Mass., in November, and 
 on the 21st sailed from Boston in the Constitution for 
 Ship island, Mississippi Sound. Its first exploit was the 
 raid on Baloxi and Pass Christian, the enemy fleeing and 
 leaving their camp and colors to the Ninth. The regi- 
 ment smelt more powder in the battle of Baton Rouge, and 
 in June, 1863, in the battle of Cliackaloo station. In 
 both cases it escaped with trilling loss. In the spring of 
 1864 the regiment returned to (,'Onnecticut on veteran fur- 
 lough, over 800 men having re-enlisted. In July the 
 Ninth went to New York, and thence t(^ Bermuda Hun- 
 dred, and participated in an engagement at Deep Bottom. 
 August 1st found the command at Washington. On the 
 following day it marched to Tcnnallytown, Md., remained 
 two weeks, and crossing tlie Potomac joined General Sher- 
 idan in the campaign in the Shenandoah valley. October 
 17th the Ninth participated in the battle of Cedar Creek, 
 losing thirty-one men, and that month the non-veterans 
 were mustered out, and the men remaining were consoli- 
 dated into a battalion of four companies. In January, 
 1865, the battalion proceeded via transport fi-om Balti- 
 more to Savannah, Ga., and was engaged in guard duty 
 there until mustered out August 3d, 1865. 
 
172 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 The original muster roll had 845 names. About 440 
 recruits were added, and these, with 321 more re-enlisted, 
 made an aggregate to the Ninth's credit of 1,606 men. 
 The casualties were : Killed in action, 5; died of wounds, 
 1 ; died of disease, 240 ; discharged prior to muster out 
 of the regiment, 376. The regiment went out with a band, 
 which was mustered out of service in September, 1862. 
 Christian Streit of New Haven, was the leader. 
 
 The principal engagements of the regiment were : Baton 
 Rouge, 1862, Chackaloo Station, La., 1863, Deep Bot- 
 tom and Cedar Creek, Va., 1864. 
 
 TENTH INFANTRY. 
 
 CAMP BUCKINGHAM, Hartford, was the rendezvous 
 of this regiment wlien it was recruited in the fall of 
 1861. In October the Tenth went to Annapolis, and being 
 assigned to General Burnside's command was engaged the 
 following February in the battle of Roanoke Island, N. C. 
 The regiment fouglit gallantly, and Colonel Russell was 
 killed while leading it to the charge. A month later the 
 Tenth lost twenty-three killed and wounded in the battle 
 of Newberne, and then had rest from close warfare until 
 the 14th of December. It then participated in the san- 
 guinary battle of Kiuston, N. C, and lost 106 officers and 
 men, and only two days later was in another fight at 
 Whitehall. March 28, 1863, after a winter's rest, the 
 Tenth was in the battle of Seabrook Island, S. C, and 
 spent the spring, summer, and fall before Charleston. 
 December found the regiment in Florida, whei-e twenty- 
 two men were lost in a fight at St. Augustine. In the 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 173 
 
 spring of 18G4 the regiment went to Virginia, and suffered 
 thc^loss of all the garrison and camp equipage and regi- 
 mental and company records hy the sinking, at Norfolk, 
 of the transport on which they were stored. The first 
 fight in the Virginia campaign was at Walthall Junction, 
 May 7th, and from this time the history of the organiza- 
 tion shows battle after battle clear through to the surren- 
 der at Aj)pomattox, the Tenth being "in at the death." 
 
 A total of 2,124 men was credited to the organization 
 during its existence, embracing the original DOG, recruits 
 818, and re-enlisted veterans 280. The casualties were: 
 Killed in action, 57; died of wounds, 59; died of disease, 
 152; discharged prior to muster out of regiment, 092. 
 The regimental band was mustered out August 30, 1862. 
 
 The principal engagements were: Roanoke Island, 
 Newberne, Kinston, and Whitehall, N. C, in 1862; Sea- 
 brook Island, S. C, siege of Charleston and St. Augustine, 
 Fla.,inl863; W\althall Junction, Drury's Bluff, Bernuida 
 Hundred, Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, Deep Run, 
 siege of Petersburg, Laurel Hill Church, New Market 
 Road, Darbytown Road, and Johnson's Plantation, all in 
 Virginia, in 1861; Hatcher's Run, Fort Gregg, and Appo- 
 mattox Court House, in 1865. 
 
 The Tenth sustained unusually heavy losses of officers 
 by death and otherwise during its campaigns, and had not 
 less than four colonels during the lirst eighteen months of 
 its career. 
 
 ELEVENTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THE Eleventh was recruited at Camp Lincoln, Hart- 
 ford, and in December, 1861, under command of 
 Colonel Kingsbury of Franklin, went to Annapolis and 
 
174 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 was assignetT to Burnsicle's division ; the third Connecticut 
 regiment furnislied that command. Tlie regiment had a 
 terrible time off Cape Hatteras, and all narrowly esca},ed 
 death when the steamer conveying them was beached. 
 
 During the summer the regiment was transferred to the 
 Army of the Potomac, and was in the fierce campaign of 
 that year. It was in the battle of South Mountain, Md., 
 September 14th, and three days later went into the thick- 
 est of the bloody contest at Antietam. The loss aggre- 
 gated 181, including Colonel Kingsbury killed, and Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel Stedman and Major Moegling badly wound- 
 ed. Colonel Kingsbury was a lieutenant in the regular 
 army, who had Ijccn appointed to the command of the reg- 
 iment upon the resignation, in March, 1862, of it first col- 
 onel. In December the regiment was on picket duty at 
 Fredericksburg, losing slightly, and spent the following 
 year in Virginia, but did not take part in any important 
 engagements. Its principal service was in the siege of 
 Suffolk, and in reconnoissances, in which some losses were 
 sustained. In the spring of 1864 the regiment, composing 
 a part of the force against Richmond, was largely re- 
 cruited, and showed nearly 900 men on the rolls. May 
 12th, advancing to the Petersl)urg and Richmond pike, it 
 fought its way in line of battle on the right of the road, 
 past the Half Way House, and participated in the battle 
 of Drury's Bluff, May 16th. At this place, when under a 
 flank fire, it fell back with great loss from a strongly forti- 
 fied position. The regiment was next detailed to build 
 fortifications on the Bermuda Hundred front, and subse- 
 quently, via City Point and the White House, reached Cold 
 Harbor in time to participate in the battle there. The loss 
 was 91 officers and men. Major Converse was killed and 
 Adjutant Barnum died from his wounds. In August, in 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 175 
 
 skirmishing near Petersburg, Colonel Stedman of Hart- 
 ford, then commanding the brigade, was struck by a shot 
 in the side and died the following morning. In service 
 around Petersburg from June to September, 1864, the 
 Eleventli lost 85 men. It remained on duty in Virginia 
 until the close of the war, and was mustered out Decem- 
 ber 21, 1865. 
 
 Nearly 2,400 men were credited to the regiment during 
 its term of service. The casualties were : Killed in action, 
 35 ; died of wounds, 11 ; died of disease, 165 ; discharged 
 prior to muster out, 579. 
 
 The principal engagements were : Newberne, N. C, South 
 Mountain, Md., Antietam, Md., and Fredericksburg, Va., 
 in 1862 ; Suffolk, Va., 1863 ; Swift's Creek, Drury's" Bluff, 
 Cold Harbor, and before Petersburg, 1864. 
 
 TWELFTH INFANTRY. 
 
 CAMP LYON, Hartford, was the rendezvous of the 
 Twelfth (the '' Charter Oak") in the winter of 
 1861-2, and in February, 1862, the regiment left for Ship 
 Island, Mississippi, with 1,008 men, armed with Sharps' 
 and Windsor rifles. The regiment was ordered to join 
 General Butler's division. Colonel Henry C. Deming of 
 Hartford was in command, but being detailed for civil 
 duties, the command devolved in Lieutenant-Colonel Col- 
 burn of Derby, who was promoted to the colonelcy upon 
 Colonel Dcming's resignation in January, 1863. The 
 Twelfth's first engagement was at Georgia Landing, La., 
 October 27, 1862, where it lost nineteen men, killed, 
 wounded, and missing. The following March, Company 
 
17G HISTOUy OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 A was captured when on a reconnoissance to Grand Lake 
 with a company of the IGOth New York. In April the 
 Twelfth went on an expedition to Berivick and Patterson- 
 ville, and at the latter place was in a hard fight with the 
 rebels, who were in a fortified position. The principal 
 duty was in supporting batteries, and good work was done. 
 The regiment returned to Opclousas, and l)eing attached 
 to General Banks' command was engaged in the seige of 
 Port Hudson from May 25th to July 9, 1863, losiug 108 
 officers and men. On the last mentioned date, with mar- 
 tial music and flying colors, the Twelfth was a part of the 
 victorious force marching into the captured post. After a 
 veteran furlough in Connecticut in the spring of 1^:64, 
 three-fourths of the men having re-enlisted, the Twelfth 
 returned to New Orleans, but August found it transferred 
 to Virginia, and in Sheridan's command in the Shenan- 
 doah valley. In the battle of Winchester in September, 
 seventy-one men were lost, including Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Peck of New Haven, and First Lieutenants Gcoi-ge W. 
 Steadman of Stonington, and W. S. Bulkeley of Hartford. 
 The regiment escaped from the battle of Fisher's Hill five 
 days later without loss, but in October, at Cedar Creek, 
 suffered terribly. The total loss was 170, including three 
 commissioned officers. The severe losses which had nearly 
 decimated the regiment, and the near expiration of the 
 terms of those Avho had not re-enlisted, led to the re-organ- 
 ization of the regiment as the Twelfth Battalion, under 
 command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis of Hartford. With- 
 out suffering further losses during its future career, the 
 battalion was mustered out August 12, 1865. 
 
 The men credited to the Twelfth were : Original enlist- 
 ments, 1,008 ; re-enlisted, 436 ; recruits, 400 ; total, 1,844. 
 The casualties were : Killed in action, 50 ; died of wounds, 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 177 
 
 16 ; died of disease, 188 ; discliarged prior to muster out, 
 150. 
 
 The principal engagements were : Georgia Landing, La., 
 1862; Pattersonville, Berwick, and Port Hudson, La., 
 1863 ; Winchester, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek, Va., 
 1864. 
 
 T 
 
 THIRTEENTH INFANTRY. 
 
 the Thirteenth regiment belongs the distinction of 
 having been in the service considerably longer than 
 any other Connecticut organization. It was organized in 
 November, 1861, in New Haven, and was mustered out 
 April 25, 1866, at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, and was finally 
 paid off at Hart Island, New York harbor. May 5, 1866, 
 thus making four years and six months in service. The 
 regiment was in barracks in New Haven during the winter 
 of 1861-2, where Colonel Birge brought it into excellent 
 shape for discipline and personal appearance. The orig- 
 inal field officers were as follows : — Colonel Henry W. 
 Birge of Norwich, formerly major of the Fourtli. He was 
 promoted to a brigadier in September, 1863, for services 
 at Irisli Bend and during the siege of Port Hudson, and 
 afterward brevetted major-general for distinguished servi- 
 ces in the Shenandoah valley. Lieutenant-Colonel War- 
 ner of Woodstock, formerly major of the Third, resigned 
 July, 1863, at New Orleans. Major Richard E. Ilolcomb 
 of East Granby, formerly quartermaster of tiic Third, re- 
 signed in August, 1862, to accept colonelcy of tlie First 
 Louisiana (white), and was killed June 14, 1863, at Port 
 Hudson at the head of the assaulting column. 
 
 The regiment left New Haven, March 17, 1862, as part 
 
178 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 of General Butler's New England Division; entered New 
 Orleans, May 12th, where it was selected by Butler for 
 provost duty, and was stationed in the custom house. In 
 the fall it took the field under General Wcitzel and served 
 in Louisiana, under Butler and Banks, until July, ISGl, 
 when it was sent north to Sheridan in tlic Shenandoah, 
 with whom it remained until January, 1865. It was then 
 sent to Newberne, and after tlie close of the war was 
 engaged in garrison duty in Georgia, with headquarters 
 successively at Savannah, Augusta, Athens, and Atlanta. 
 When finally mustered out in May, 1865, there were left 
 but twelve officers and 177 men. The regiment took part 
 in the following engagements in Louisiana: Georgia Land- 
 ing, Irish Bend, Siege of Port Hudson, Cano River, and 
 Mansura. Under Sheridan it bore a gallant part at Ope- 
 quan, Winchester, and Fisher's Hill. During tlie sliarp 
 fight at Irisli Bend, April 14, 1F63, the regiment in a few 
 minutes lost 7 killed and 46 wounded, drove a Texas bri- 
 gade and captured a portion of their battery, togetlier with 
 the battery flag. The flag was a liandsomely embroidered 
 one, inscribed: "Tlie Ladies of Franklin to the St. Mary's 
 Cannoniers." Lieutenant (now Brevet Major) Wells 
 brought it off the field, and it was subsequently deposited 
 with the battle flags at the State arsenal. The members 
 of tlic regiment were greatly disappointed to know that 
 they could not carry it in the parade, as it was decided 
 that the various similar trophies were not to be deposited 
 with the State battle-flags, but kept by tliemselves at the 
 arsenal. The secretary of the Regimental Association 
 had the trophy, which was rapidly falling to pieces, 
 repaired, and obtained permission to cxhiL'it it, during 
 the parade, from the front of No. 2C0 Mahi street (opposite 
 Center cliurcli). During the siege of Port Hudson, lasting 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUPL 179 
 
 forty-four days, the Thirteenth won fresh laurels. After the 
 second tcrrilJe Init unsuccessful assault upon the enemy's 
 works, General Banks called for a storming column of 
 1,000 men. The situation was apparently desperate, for 
 it was feared that Johnston's army was coming in the 
 rear. Colonel Birge volunteered to lead the Forlorn Hope, 
 and IG officers and 225 men of the Thirteenth joined the 
 column. This comprised more than half of the men and 
 every officer present for duty, with but one exception. No 
 other brigade or division furnished as many men as this 
 regiment alone. Fortunately for them the delays of Gen- 
 eral Banks, and the success of Grant at Vicksburg, ren- 
 dered this new assault needless, but the bravery of the 
 volunteering for what seemed certain death, is none the 
 less worthy of record. When the rebels surrendered, the 
 storming column, Jieaded by Colonel Birge, and with col- 
 ors and the splendid band of the Thirteenth, were first to 
 enter the place. While the regiment was engaged in this 
 siege, the rebels, under Dick Taylor, made a raid from 
 Texas to the La Fourche district and necessitated the 
 destruction of all the property of the Thirteenth, which had 
 been stored at Bayou Boeuf in an old sugar mill. The accu- 
 mulations of nearly three years were thus lost, and the 
 officers and men were left with nothing but the worn-out 
 fatigue suits, which had gone through the Red River march 
 and the long siege. No recompense was ever given them. 
 In January, 1864, the Thirteenth was called upon to re- 
 enlist, and out of 406 me7i prese7if for duty 400 hwdcd the 
 call. They Avere promised a thirty-days furlough ; that they 
 should be turned into cavalry, and that they should be 
 promptly mustered out if the war ended; none of which 
 promises were kept. 
 
 When Colonel Birge was promoted in 1863, Captain 0. 
 
180 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 D. Blinn (Co. C) of New Milford, was appointed colonel, 
 and had command of the regiment nntil December, 1864. 
 At that time the regiment was consolidated into live com- 
 panies, and called "The Veteran Battalion, Thirteenth 
 C. V." Lieutenant-Colonel Homer B. Sprague had com- 
 mand, and remained with the battalion until its final mus- 
 ter out. 
 
 FOURTEENTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THE Fourteenth — the first regiment organized under 
 President Lincoln's call for "three hundred thousand 
 more" in 1862, was recruited from the State at large, and 
 mustered into the United States service at Camp Foote, 
 Hartford, August 23d of that year. It departed for the 
 seat of war August 25th, numbering then 1,015 men. 
 Participating in twenty-six general engagements and in 
 the long siege of Richmond, it was mustered out May 31, 
 1865. During its two years and nine months of service 
 there were killed in action 132, died of wounds, 65 ; died 
 of disease, 169; missing, 6; discharged prior to muster 
 out (nearly all for disability contracted in the service) 416. 
 This makes a total of 788 casualties in a regiment that, 
 including the recruits sent out to it from time to time, 
 had upon its rolls first and last a total of 1,726 names. 
 This series of engagements began with Antietam, into 
 which the green regiment was placed three weeks from 
 the time it left the State, and embraces every important 
 engagement of the Army of the Potomac thenceforward to 
 the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox. Of the con- 
 duct of the Fourteenth at Antietam Generals Sumner and 
 Hancock speak most highly ; of its charges at Fredericks- 
 
THE BOYS TX BLUE. 181 
 
 burg an English officer npon Lee's staff wrote tliat " no 
 men on earth could be braver tlian those wlio thrice 
 essayed to cany Marye's Heights," — an assertion thetrutli 
 of which was attested by the 122 serious casualties in the 
 regiment that day, and by tlie fact that nearly every 
 unwounded man had some bullet-mark on liis clothes or 
 accouterments. At Gettysburg the Fourteenth held one 
 of the most important positions in tlie line of the Second 
 corps, on wliich line the rebel charge spent itself in vain, 
 and in which battle five rebel regimental flags and forty 
 prisoners were captured by this regiment alone. At Mor- 
 ton's Ford, February 6, 1864, a fight in which General 
 Alex. Hayes' brigade of the Second corps were almost the 
 only Union troops exposed, the Fourteenth lost 115 men, 
 and Lieutenant-Colonel Moore was justified in calling it "a 
 hand-to-hand fight," for the regiment maintained its posi- 
 tion by the use of the bayonet, until ordered to retire, 
 which it did in splendid order. All through Grant's first 
 campaigns, from the Wilderness to Appomattox, the Four- 
 teenth had its full share of work, glory, and losses. Of 
 its colors there are three stands, a new set of State colors 
 having been furnished them during the war, which were 
 the only ones that were even partially unfurled on the 17th, 
 and these are badly shot-riddled. The first set of State 
 colors and the national colors (the latter of which was 
 carried all through tlie war) are so torn by shot, shell, 
 and' bullet, that they can only be borne closely tied to their 
 oik staffs, but will be apt to attract none the less attention 
 for this fact, especially when it is borne in mind that at 
 Fredericksburg alone the lives of three color sergeants 
 were sacrificed in defense of these flags', one of whom, 
 Sergeant George A. Foote of Guilford, was a brother of 
 Mrs. General Hawley of this city. 
 
182 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 It is significant as showing the casualties occasioned by 
 hard service lliat hut four of the original thirty-nine com- 
 missioned • officers of the regiment served througliout its 
 term of service. These were Adjutant Ellis, who returned 
 as colonel, First Lieutenant S. A. Moore of New Britain, 
 who I'cturncd as lieutenant-colonel, Second Assistant Sur- 
 geon Dudley, who returned full surgeon, and Quartermas- 
 ter Dibhle, wlio alone returned in the same position, having 
 refused jiromotion. All of the non-commissioned staff 
 were promoted — Sergeant-Major Goddard to be captain, 
 the others to lieutenants. Three of the Fourteenth field 
 officers were brevetted to be brigadiers near the close of 
 the war. These were Colonels Dwiglit Morris and T. G. 
 Ellis, and Major J. B. Coit, while several other officers of 
 the regiment were brevetted to colonelcies. William B. 
 Ilincks, of Bridgeport, who went out as private, rose in 
 two promotions to be first adjutant and then major, in 
 which position he returned with the regiment. The fact 
 that ninety-one different individuals held commissions in 
 the Fourteenth during its term of service shows the force 
 of the saying that was popular among the veterans of the 
 regiment, i. e., "He who joins the Fourteenth will be a 
 captain or a dead man in a year's time." Since the war 
 the Fourteenth has always held a regimental re-union on 
 the 17th of September. 
 
 FIFTEENTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THIS regiment, Avhich was recruited at New ITaven in 
 August, 18G2, left for Washington with 1,0:22 officers 
 and men, under Colonel Dexier R. Wright, who resigned 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE.- 183 
 
 the following February on account of disability, and was 
 succeeded in April by Colonel Charles L. Uplmm, of Mcri- 
 den. During the interim Lieutenant-Colonel ToUes, ftf 
 New Haven, commanded. The regiment's first engage- 
 ment was at Fredericksburg, in December, 1862, where 
 ten men were lost; and in April, 1863, tlie regiment was 
 employed in difficult and dangerous service at Suffolk, Va., 
 during tlic siege of Longstreet. In reconnoissanccs in 
 April and May on the P]denton and Providence Church 
 Roads, sliglit losses were sustained. In the scorching 
 weatlier of July the regiment had hard marching service 
 with General Dix's expedition uj) tlie Peninsula, and spent 
 the fall and winter in working upon the fortifications of 
 Norfolk. In January, 1864, the Fifteenth was transferred 
 to Plymouth, N. C, and while there Major Osborn with 
 tlu-ee companies accompanying a detachment of the Six- 
 teenth Connecticut, and a few other troops, made a suc- 
 cessful niglit raid on the rebel commissary depot near Col- 
 raine, destroying large supplies. Another force, under 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Tolles, captured and destroyed tlie 
 camp equipage, stores, etc., of the Sixty-Second Georgia 
 Regiment. March 8, 1865, wliilc briskly engaged with 
 the enemy near Jackson's mills, the regiment was envel- 
 oped by a force of the enemy who had gained their rear, 
 and a large portion was captured. The loss in killed, 
 wounded, and captured, was 475 officers and men. The 
 principal loss was by capture, and the prisoners were soon 
 after exchanged and rejoined the regiment. Upon the 
 occupation of Kinston by the Union army, the Fifteenth 
 was assigned to garrison duty, and remained there until 
 the war closed. In June the regiment was mustered out, 
 all men whose terms had not expired being transferred to 
 the Seventh Connecticut. The regiment reached New 
 Haven July 6, 1865, and was paid off eight days later. 
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184 HISTORY or*' BATTLF-FLAG DAV- 
 
 Tlie aggregate number of men to the credit of tlie regi- 
 ment during its term of service was 1,617. The casual- 
 ties were: Killed in action, 15; died of wounds, 15; died 
 of disease, 113 ; discharged ])rior to muster out of regi- 
 ment, 372. 
 
 The principal engagements were: Fredericksburg, Va., 
 1862; Edenton Koad and Providence Church Road, Va., 
 1863: Kinston,N. C, 1865. 
 
 THE SIXTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 THE Sixteenth Regiment was organized in response 
 to President Lincoln's call for 300,000 volunteers. 
 Five companies were recruited in Hartford : Company A, 
 Captain Pasco; Company B, Captain Mix ; Company C, 
 Captain Rankin; Company F, Captain Seaver, and Com- 
 pany G, Captain Hayden. The other five companies con- 
 stituting tlie regiment were: Company D, Captain Brown, 
 from Thompsonvillc; Company E, Captain Babcock, from 
 Collinsville; Company H, Captain Barber, from Manches- 
 ter; Company T, Captain Drake, from Stafford; and Com- 
 pany K, Captain Manross, from Bristol. The regiment 
 rendezvoused at " Camp Williams," Hartford. Company 
 A, with 76 men was the first company to go into camp, 
 July 24, 1862, followed an hour later by Company C, 
 with 81 men. Major George A. Washburn assumed com- 
 mand of the camp, and, July 30th, appointed Lieutenant 
 John H. Burnham adjutant. 
 
 Tlie command of tlie regiment was given to Colonel 
 Frank Beach, of Hartford, an officer of the regular army, 
 and the position of lieutenant-colonel Avas filled by the 
 
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 U. S. N. 
 
 Regimental Badges. 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 187 
 
 appointment of Frank W. Cheney, also of Hartfovd. 
 Colonel Beach assumed command of the regiment August 
 14th, and exerted every effort to hasten its departure for 
 •the field. On Friday, August 29, 1862, the regiment 
 broke camp and slowly marching up Main street througli 
 the surging throng of people gathered to see them off. 
 Governor Buckingham and his staff riding at the head of 
 the column, went on board the steamers "City of Hart- 
 ford" and "George C. Collins" for New York. Tlie 
 Courant, in giving an account of the departure of the 
 regiment, said: "Hartford has never sent off so fine a 
 regiment before, or one that she lias so mucli reason to be 
 proud of." From New York the regiment was hurried 
 to Washington, by way of Ilarrisburg, and was ordered 
 into camp on Arlington Heights, near Fort Ward. Wliile 
 crossing the Potomac over Long liridge, trains of nmbu- 
 lances were met filled with the wounded from the second 
 Bull Run battlefield — a not particularly inspiriting sight 
 for a lot of raw recruits. After a few days' stay at Fort 
 Ward, the regiment was luuTied forward l)y forced 
 marches, reaching the Army of tlic Potomac and being- 
 brigaded upon the battlefield of Antietam, u])on the even- 
 ing previous to the battle, with the Eighth and Eleventh 
 Connecticut Regiments and the Fonrtli Rhode Island Vol- 
 unteers — constituting the Second brigade, Third division, 
 of Burnside's Ninth Army Corps. Altliougli the Six- 
 teenth had left Hartford but twenty days previously, was 
 exhausted hj forced marches, and had never had a bat- 
 talion drill, it was thrust to tlie fore-front of battle the 
 following day, and in the fatal cornfield was confronted by 
 the veteran troops of Stonewall Jackson, fresh from Har- 
 per's Ferry and flushed with their easy victory over Col- 
 onel Miles. Posted upon higher ground, partially pro- 
 
188 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY, 
 
 tected by a stone wall and concealed from view by the 
 waving corn, the rebels poured a destructive fire into the 
 regiment, which, in endeavoring to change front, had been 
 thrown into some confusion. A portion of the regimental 
 line engaged the enemy in a hand to hand conflict, while 
 the remainder, owing to the conformation of the field and 
 the breaking of their line, were unable in the thick corn, 
 which waved higher than their heads, to even see the 
 rebels who were pouring such a devastating fire into their 
 midst. Tbey could only stand and take it. The regi- 
 ment finally retired from the cornfield, its place being 
 filled by the gallant Eighth Connecticut. Its loss in 
 officers and men had been severe. Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Cheney and Major Washburn were badly wounded, Cap- 
 tains Drake, Brown, and Manross killed outright, and 
 Captain Barl)er dying soon of wounds, while Captains 
 Babcock and Uayden were wounded. A recapitulation 
 of casualties, made two days after the battle, showed the 
 following loss: Killed, four captains, one lieutenant, and 
 fifty-one enlisted men ; wounded, tw'o field officers, two 
 captains, four lieutenants, and one hundred and seventy- 
 six enlisted men; captured, twelve enlisted men — a total 
 of two hundred and thirty-eight. It was just after this 
 battle that Lieutenant Wm, H. Lock wood was promoted 
 to captain of Company K, his commission dating Sep- 
 tember 17th. 
 
 Sbattercd and disheartened, the Sixteenth recovered 
 slowly from its terrible losses, but it was composed of the 
 very best of material and gradually became what it ever 
 after remained, a well-disciplined and thoroughly reliable 
 regiment. It crossed the Potomac and marched through 
 Virginia in pursuit of Lee under McClellan, It sustained 
 a creditable part in the battle of Fredericksburg under 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 189 
 
 Burnside, meeting but slight loss. Upon Burnside's being 
 relieved of the command of the Army of the Potomac by 
 General Hooker, the ninth army corps was detached and 
 ordered to Newport News, Va. Here the Sixteenth, re- 
 joiced at getting out of the muddy camps of Falmouth, 
 rapidly improved in health and spirits and became profi- 
 cient in drill. After a pleasant stay of a month at tliis 
 place the regiment was ordered with the rest of tlie Con- 
 necticut brigade commanded by General Harland, to 
 Suffolk, where it saw active service during the siege of that 
 place by Longstreet — being twice hotly engaged with con- 
 siderable loss, at Edenton road, April 24, 1863, and Provi- 
 dence Church road, Sunday May 3d. In the latter en- 
 gagement, the regiment was led by Colonel Beach. The 
 brave Captain Tennant of Hartford, received wounds from 
 which he died, Lieutenant-Colonel Buruham was slightly 
 wounded, and orderly sergeant, afterwards lieutenant, B. 
 F. Blakeslee, was shot across the top of the head for the 
 second time. The total loss of the Sixteenth during the 
 siege was six killed, and twelve wounded. After the siege 
 of Suffolk, the regiment encamped near Portsmouth, Va., 
 in a pleasant spot on the banks of Elizabeth river. June 
 22, 1863, while enjoying the oysters, crabs, peaches, and 
 sweet potatoes to be liad in abundance, the regiment was 
 ordered up the Peninsula under General Dix to attempt, 
 with other troops, to destroy communication between Lee's 
 army and Riclmiond. The attempt proved fruitless, was 
 given up, and the troops ordered back to their old camps. 
 It had involved much hard marching in tlie hottest weather, 
 as well as some uncomfortable sailing on army transports, 
 and was not looked upon with either pride, or pleasure by 
 tliose who took part in it. The expedition is known to 
 history as the "Blackberry Raid," blackberries which were 
 
190 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 found ill great profusion, being the only thing very exten- 
 sively destroyed. After tlie "Blackberry Raid" the 
 regiment enjoyed several months of quiet in camp near 
 Portsmouth, but in January, 18G4, was ordered to New- 
 bcrne, N. C, and from there to Plymouth, N. C. After a 
 short stay at Plymouth, the regiment was again ordered to 
 Newberne, which was then threatened with attack. Ilcre 
 the regiment* went into barracks and was put at work 
 building earthworks, doing picket duty, etc., until on the 
 20tli of March, the scare being over, it Avas ordered once 
 more to Plymouth upon the steamer Thomas Collyer, 
 narrowly escaping shipwreck in a storm off Roanoke 
 Island on the way to Plymouth — being rescued, after 
 much suffering from cold and hunger, by the steamer 
 General Berry. In view of their subsequent fate, the 
 regiment could well have afforded to run the risk of ship- 
 wreck on Roanoke Island. The Sixteenth had been at 
 Plymouth less than a month after its return from New- 
 berne, before the place was attacked by an overwhelming 
 force of the best troops of Lee's army, assisted by the iron- 
 clad ram Albermarle in the Roanoke river. After an ex- 
 ceedingly gallant and stubborn light of three days and 
 nights, the small garrison of less than 1,600 men, com- 
 manded by General 11. AV. Wessells of the regular army, 
 was compelled to surrender, and the Sixteenth found 
 itself booked for Andersonville and other prisons. For 
 the greater part of a year they suffered confinement at 
 Andersonville and other prison pens of the south. II 
 Company, under the command of Captain Joseph II. 
 Barnum, was dispatched to Roanoke Island early on the 
 day of the attack, to relieve three companies then garri- 
 soning the f ortftication of that post the better to strengthen 
 Plymouth. After the capture of the regiment, instruc- 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 191 
 
 tions were received to make all the reports to the war 
 department that were required of a regimental organiza- 
 tion. At Roanoke the now regiment was joined by officers 
 and men that were on detached duty and those returning 
 from rcbeldom as paroled and exchanged prisoners. ^ In 
 the meantime this little band made two incursions into 
 the enemy's country in connection with marines and gun- 
 boats, one of them being to the old Plymouth battle 
 ground, and some twenty miles beyond, after its abandon- 
 ment by the rebels. March 4, 1865, the regiment, then 
 numbering nearly one lumdred, was transferred to New- 
 berne, where it performed guard and provost duty until 
 mustered out June 24, 1865. The regiment gathered 
 strength from returning members, and lost none of its old- 
 time discipline and soldiery conduct under tlie care of 
 Captain Barnum, who was relieved from the command 
 some two months before the regiment came home. 
 
 No words can properly describe the terrible privations 
 endured by the officers and men. Of the number cap- 
 tured at Plymouth, nearly one-half died in prison. Many 
 have died since of disease contracted in the rebel prison- 
 pens, and but few, if any, of the survivors are free from 
 the life-long effects of starvation and exposure. But to 
 their lasting honor, the members of the Sixteenth endured 
 their sufferings with the utmost fortitude, setting an ex- 
 ample of the most miflinching loyalty, and preferring 
 death to the dishonor of saving life by taking the oath of 
 allegiance to the hated confederacy. 
 
 Newberne had been visited by a destructive epidemic of 
 yellow fever during the preceding fall, and while in com- 
 mand' of Brigadier-General Edward Harland, the former 
 colonel of the Eight Coimecticut. Puring this epidemic. 
 Surgeon Nathan Mayer of the Sixteenth was in charge of 
 
192 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 the United States General Hospital Foster, and W. Chester 
 Case of the same regiment, was cliief clerk. Tliey held 
 positions of difficulty and danger, and both were evcntu- 
 aHy prostrated by the disease, yet they so conducted them- 
 selves that Surgeon Mayer was afterwards complimented 
 in general orders, and appointed Medical Purveyor of the 
 Department of North Carolina; W. C. Case was kept in 
 charge of all the offices of the hospital during his term of 
 service. Several men of the regiment on detail died of 
 the fever. It was now at the close of the war, and the 
 regiment, after a few weeks of guard and provost duty at 
 Newberne, was mustered out, June 24, 1864, and, taking 
 transport for home, arrived in Hartford, June 29th, where 
 a warm Avelcome was given by the citizens. Instead of 
 the thousand officers and men who had left Hartford in 
 1862, a little band of but 130 enlisted men vvitli their 
 officers now returned. Tliough unfortunate, and faring 
 hardly from the very first, the Sixteenth regiment never re- 
 flected discredit upon the State which sent it forth. " Its 
 record is a credit to the State, and an honor to every man 
 who has shared in its fortunes." 
 
 SEVENTEENTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THIS was distinctively a Fairfield county organization, 
 recruited and organized in August 1862, and went 
 to the war under Colonel W. H. Noble of Bridgeport, 
 1,000 strong. Assigned to the Army of the Potomac, 
 in May 1863, the regiment participated in the battle of 
 Chancellorsville, Va., losing 120 men. The fight was a 
 stubborn one, the bayonet being freely used. Lieutenant- 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. Ii3 
 
 Colonel Walter was killed, and Colonel Noble, Captain 
 Hobbie, and Lieutenant Blinn wounded. Only two months 
 later, the regiment agaiii suffered terrible loss. This was 
 at Gettysburg, where Lieutenant-Colonel Fowler and Cap- 
 tain Moore and 18 men were killed, 4 officers and 77 men 
 wounded, and 2 officers and 95 men reported missing — 
 most of them captured. After a disastrous first year, the 
 regiment had comparatively easy service. It was trans- 
 ferred in August, I860, to Folly Island, S. C, wlicre in the 
 fall and winter of 1863-4 it took part in the sieges of 
 Sumter and Wagner, and the following February were 
 sent to Jacksonville, Fla. In April it relieved the Tenth 
 Connecticut at St. Augustine, and participated in sev- 
 eral raids. May 19th, Company B, picketing on the St. 
 John's river, was captured, and the following Decem- 
 ber, Colonel Noblo was taken prisoner while passing be- 
 tween Jacksonville and St. Augustine Avliile on liis return 
 from a court martial. In February 1865, Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Wilcoxson and a portion of the command were 
 captured when on an expedition to Dunn's lake with ten 
 wagons to secure cotton owned by a rebel colonel. Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel Wilcoxson was woun.ded. Adjutant Cliat- 
 field killed, and Captains French and Betts with 32 men 
 taken prisoners. The attacking party numbered 100. In 
 June, the regiment was at Jacksonville, and thence pro- 
 ceeded to Hilton Head, where it was mustered out July 
 9, 1865. 
 
 The principal engagements wore: Chancellorsville, Ya., 
 and Gettysburg, Pa., 1863, Welaka and Saunders, Fla., 
 1864, Dunn's Lake, Fla., 1865. 
 
 The regiment had over 1,500 men credited to it during 
 the term of service. The casualties were : Killed in 
 action, 29; died of wounds, 15; died of disease, 74; dis- 
 charged prior to muster out of regiment, 319. 
 
194 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 EIGHTEENTH IN^'ANTRY. 
 
 THE Eighteenth volunteers rendezvoused at Norwich 
 in August, 18G2, tlie men coming principally from 
 New London and Windham counties. It was the first reg- 
 iment to leave the State after the call of President Lincoln 
 for " 300.000 more." The commander was Colonel William 
 G. Ely of Norwich, who had seen service in the First 
 and Sixth Connecticut regiments. After several months' 
 garrison duty at Baltimore, the regiment, in May, 1863, 
 was ordered to active service, and the following month, at 
 Winchester, Va., lost the larger part of its fighting force. 
 Winchester was an exposed position, and from May 25th 
 to the date of the action, June loth, the regiment was 
 continually on picket and reconnoitering service. In the 
 evacuation of the place, the Union troops were intercepted 
 by a superior force of rebels, and the Eighteenth, after 
 three valiant charges, was captured, the total loss, killed, 
 wounded, and prisoners being 575. Major Poale with 
 30 men escaped, and Company D of Pomfret, Thompson, 
 and Woodstock troops Avere the only other men left, Ihcy 
 liavmg been detailed in charge of prisoners captured the 
 preceding day. Exchanges soon after released most of the 
 captured men, and they joined the little band of more 
 fortunate comrades at Harper's Ferry. In the spring of 
 1864, the Eighteenth joined General Sigel's command in 
 a movement up the Shenandoah valley, and May 15th in 
 an engagement at New Market, lost 56 men. June 5th, in 
 the successful fight at Piedmont, the regiment made several 
 charges and bore repeated vollies witliout wavering, and 
 were repaid by ])articipating in the total rout of the rebels 
 and the capture of 1,500 prisoners. However, the Eigli 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 195 
 
 teenth paid for their glory with the loss of Adjutant Culver 
 and Lieutenant ]\IcGinnis killed, and 122 men i<illed and 
 wounded. June 18th, after a fight at Lynchburg, the com- 
 mand was forced to retreat, and was closely pursued, con- 
 stantly skirmishing until it reached the Kanawha river, 
 July 3d. Seven mountain ranges were crossed in the return, 
 and several who succumbed to hunger and exhaustion were 
 captured. After two weeks' rest the Eighteenth hurried 
 forward with the troops resisting the rebel advance into 
 Maryland, and lost S2 men in a figlit at Snicker's Ford on 
 the Potomac. A week later, it had another Tight at Win 
 Chester, and closed its list of engagements with a fight at 
 Berryvillc, September 5th, losing but slightly. The reg- 
 iment served in West Virginia until mustered out, June 
 27, 1865, at Farper's Ferry. 
 
 The muster roll bears the names of 1,200 officers and 
 men. The casualties were: Killed in action, 52; died of 
 wounds, 14 ; died of disease, 72 ; discharged j)rior to 
 muster out of regiment, 323. 
 
 The principal engagements were : Winchester, Va., 
 1863, New ]\Iarket, Piedmont, Lynchburg, Snicker's Ford, 
 Winchester, and Berryville, 1864. 
 
 NINETEENTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THIS was recruited in Litchfield county in 1862, and 
 was commanded by Colonel L. W. Wessels. In I^o- 
 veinber, 1863, it was changed to an artillery organization, 
 and became tlie Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery. 
 For its services, etc., see sketch of that regiment. 
 
196 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 TWENTIETH INFANTRY. 
 
 THE Twentieth regiment was recruited in Hartford, 
 New Haven, and Middlesex countries and left New 
 Haven for Washington September 12, 1862, with 981 offi- 
 cers and men under command of Colonel Samuel Ross of 
 the United States regulars. He was a native of Hartford, 
 After reaching the field he was given a brigade and the 
 regiment was generally commanded during its career by 
 its lieutenant-colonels. The Twentieth w^as attached to 
 the Twelfth or my corps, and its first engagement was at 
 Chancellorsville, May 1, 1863, where its gallantry was 
 highly complimented in official reports. The loss was 197 
 officers and men. Two months later the regiment was 
 engaged with the enemy for six hours at Gettysburg, but 
 escaped with a loss of only twenty-eight. In the latter 
 part of September the regiment made a long journey by 
 rail to the army of the Cumberland, reaching Bridgeport, 
 Ala., October 3d. Several skirmishes were participated 
 in during the autumn, and in January, 1864, while guard- 
 ing Tracy City, Tenn., a part of the regiment repulsed an 
 attacking cavalry force. Captain Upson of Southington, 
 commanding the post, was killed. After many changes of 
 post during the ensuing weeks, the regiment, in May, was 
 in the battles at Rcsaca, Ga., and Cassville, Ala., losing 
 in both tv»'enty-one men. Cassville was captured by the 
 Twentieth Connecticut, and Nineteenth Michigan, by a 
 bayonet charge. As a part of Sherman's legions on his 
 great march to the sea, the Twentieth, in July, partici- 
 pated in a fight at Peach Tree Creek, Ga. It was a sharp 
 and bloody fight, the regiment losing fifty-five men, in- 
 cluding six commissioned officers wounded. Near Atlanta, 
 
TEIE BOYS IN BLUE. 197 
 
 July 21st, tlio regiment lost ten men in a skirmish, and 
 after various services, participated in the capture of 
 Atlanta in September, and subsequently assisted in fortify- 
 ing the place. November 15th, it was with Sherman in 
 his advance toward Savannah, reaching there December 
 10th. Siege operations ended in the capitulation on the 
 21st, and the Twentieth were among the victorious troops 
 that entered the place. A large amount of stores and 
 30,000 bales of cotton were captured. After camping for 
 a time in the vicinity, the northward march was begun. 
 The regiment was in the fight with Joe Johnston's troops 
 at Silver Run, N. C, March 15th, losing nineteen men, and 
 on the 19tli at Bentonville. The Twentieth was mustered 
 out June 13, 1865. During the Sherman campaign it 
 marched 500 miles, destroyed miles of railroads, and 
 almost supported itself by foraging on the enemy's coun- 
 
 The casualties during the term of service were : Killed 
 in action, 50 ; died of wounds, 37 ; died of disease, 
 77 ; discharged prior to muster out 264. 
 
 The principal engagements were : Chancellorsville, 
 Va., and Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 ; Tracy City, Tcnn., Res- 
 aca, Cassville, Peach Tree Creek, and Atlanta, Ga., in 
 1864 ; Silver Run, Bentonville, and Raleigh, N. C, in 1865. 
 
 TWENTY-FIRST INFANTRY. 
 
 THE Twenty-first Connecticut was recruited in Hart- 
 ford, New London, and Windham counties, rendez- 
 voused at Norwich, and September 11, 1862, went to Wash- 
 ington with 900 men, and was assigned to the army of the 
 
198 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Potomac. Colonel Arthnr H. Dutton, a native of Walling- 
 ford, was appointed from the regular army to command it, 
 and after having brought the regiment to a liigh state of 
 efficiency, was transferred to the temporary command of a 
 brigade. The regiment's first smell of gunpowder was at 
 Fredericksburg, in December, 1862, where it made a fine 
 record. In the following April and May it participated in 
 the defense of Suffolk, Virginia, supported the Irish legion 
 on iho Edenton road, crossed the Nansemond river at 
 Sleepy Hole, drove the enemy's cavalry from Chuckatuck, 
 seized Reed's Ferry, captured fifteen of the enemy, and 
 opened communication with the Fourth Rliodc Island reg- 
 iment. After acting as provost guard of General Dix's 
 command in the raid up the Peninsula, and performing 
 provost duty in Norfork and Portsmouth for five months, 
 the regiment was ordered to Newport News, and in a raid 
 up the James river with General Graham, destroyed a 
 large quantity of rebel property. In February, 1864, the 
 regiment was ordered to Morehead city, and after repelling 
 an attack, went to Newberne. A month later, returned to 
 Virginia and encountered its first serious engagement at 
 Drury's Bluff, where 107 men were lost. May 26th, the 
 brigade reconnoitered the left of the enemy's line, and in 
 a skirmisli resulting. Colonel Dutton was wounded and 
 died a few days later. June 8d the regiment lost 47 men 
 in the Imttle of Cold Harbor, and on the 9th Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Burpee, whose commission as colonel had been 
 dated but the day before, was mortally wounded while go- 
 ing his rounds as brigade officer. The regiment did picket 
 duty and skirmished more or less with the enemy in front 
 of Petersburg until September 3d, and after a short stay 
 within the defences of Bermuda Hundred, took part in the 
 assault resulting in the capture of Fort Harrison on the 
 
THE BOYS TN BLUE. 199 
 
 James river, and the capture of the garrison witli twenty- 
 two cannon. The regiment lost thirty men. This was 
 the last engagement, and the regiment was mustered out 
 June 16, 18iJ5. 
 
 The principal engagements were : Frederickshurg, Va., 
 in 1862 ; Suffolk, Va., 1863 ; Drury's Bluff, Cold Harbor, 
 two engagements near Petersburg, and Fort Harrison, Va., 
 all in 1861. 
 
 The casualties were : Killed in action, 26 ; died of 
 wounds, 33 ; died of disease, 108 ; discharged prior to 
 muster out of regiment, 313. 
 
 ONE YEAR TROOPS. 
 
 THIRD INDEPENDENT BATTERY. 
 
 THIS battery was organized in October, 1864, at the 
 Conscript camp. New Plaven, to serve for one year, 
 and the following montli, under command of Captain 
 Thomas S. Gilbert of Derby, proceeded to Broadway Land- 
 ing, Va. The men were mainly from the smaller towns 
 in New Haven, Fairfield, and Middlesex counties. The 
 battery reported to Colonel Abbott of the First Connecti- 
 cut heavy artillery, and was assigned to four redoubts in 
 the City Point line of defences. During the attempt of 
 the rebel iron-clads to force a passage by the batteries and 
 obstructions in the James river, a section of this battery 
 with four and one-half inch siege guns was stationed in 
 front of General Grant's headquarters, covering the 
 wharves and storehouse. In January tlie battery returned 
 
200 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 to tlic redoubts, and after tlic fall of Richmond was en- 
 gaged in dismantling the fortifications and removing the 
 ordnance and stores. In June ninety-three men, whose 
 terms expired in October, were mustered out, and twenty- 
 seven men were transferred to the First Connecticut artil- 
 lery. July 3d, the officers and men were sent to New 
 Haven, paid off, and disbanded. 
 
 The casualties reported are : Died of disease, 3 ; dis- 
 charged for disability, 2. 
 
 TWENTY-SECOND INFANTRY. 
 
 THE Twenty-second regiment was recruited from 
 Hartford and Tolland counties in August and Sep- 
 tember, 1862, under the call for volunteers for nine months 
 service. It rendezvoused at Hartford, and about October 
 1st, left tlie State with 935 men. From October till Feb- 
 ruary, it was stationed at Miner's Hill, Va., then was 
 stationed at Hunter's Chapel near Arlington Heights, all 
 this time being in Abercrombie's division, Twenty-second 
 (Heintzelman's) corps, defences of Washington. In April, 
 1863, it embarked at Alexandria for Norfolk and Suffolk, 
 and took active part in the siege of Suffolk, being under 
 fire continuously during the siege ; at the battle of Fort 
 Huger and Nansemond, it was under fire both days, though 
 not taking an active part in the battle. Immediately after 
 this, the regiment was moved to West Point, on the York 
 river, and under General Gordon joined in the advance on 
 Richmond. This being abandoned, the regiment was 
 transferred to Yorktown, and under General Keyes took 
 part in the first "Blackberry raid" on Richmond, and was 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 201 
 
 quite active in the fight at Diascomb bridge. On the return 
 from this trip they were ordered home, their term of ser- 
 vice having expired. This regiment was composed of good 
 material, and had they been given the opportunity, would 
 most assuredly have made a good fighting record, but most 
 of their term of service was made up of hard marching and 
 hard digging. 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD INFANTRY. 
 
 THE Twenty-third Regiment, organized in the fall of 
 1862 for nine months' service, was recruited in New 
 Haven and Fairfield counties, several companies of state 
 militia volunteering almost bodily. The regiment left 
 Camp Terry, New Haven, November 16th, and after 
 remaining for a month under instruction at Camp Buck- 
 ingham, Long Island, was conveyed by transports to New 
 Orleans. Its principal service was in protecting the New 
 New Orleans & Opelousas Railroad, between Brashear City 
 and Algiers. 
 
 On the 21st of June, at Lafourche Crossing, it repulsed 
 the attack of a rebel brigade, after a most desperate 
 encounter at close quarters, several of the enemy being 
 killed inside the lines. The enemy left over one hundred 
 dead on the field, their loss in killed and wounded outnum- 
 bering our own force. Our loss was six killed, and about 
 thirty wounded. The regiment also rendered effective 
 service in destroying a large amount of regimental baggage 
 stored at Bayou Boeuff. 
 
 On the 24th of June, while the larger part of the Union 
 troops in that section had gone to the siege of Port Hud- 
 son, the rebels made a sudden attack on the line of the 
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202 HISTORY OF RATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 road. It was comparatively successful, a large amount, of 
 public property stored at Brashear City being either 
 captured or destroyed. Several officers on duty or in the 
 liospitals were captured. Subsequently the regiment par- 
 ticipated in repelling several other unsuccessful attacks, 
 and, its term of service expiring, it relumed home and was 
 mustered out at New Haven, August 31, 1863. 
 
 I'he original muster. roll showed 848 officers and men. 
 The casualties were : Killed, 9; died of wounds, 6; died 
 of disease, 44; discharged prior to muster out of regi- 
 ment, 21. Only engagement near Brashear City, La. 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THIS regiment had somewhat more dangerous service 
 than the other nine months' regiments preceding it. 
 Six companies were raised in Middlesex county, and the 
 other four (three of them Irish organizations) in Hartford, 
 New Haven, and Fairfield counties. The command was 
 given to Colonel Samuel M. Mansfield of Middletown, a 
 lieutenant in the regular army, and the regiment left its 
 rendezvous at Middletown, November 18, 1862, with 698 
 men. After a brief stay in company with the Twenty- 
 third at Camp Buckingham, Long Island, it was sent to 
 Louisiana, and, after participating in the T^che campaign, 
 joined the army, besieging Port Hudson. May 24, 1863, 
 was a day of active skirmishing, and June 14th the regi- 
 ment played a conspicuous part in the second assault on 
 the fortifications. It advanced further to the front under 
 a galling fire, and held its new position for the rest of the 
 month, with half the command on duty day and night. 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE, 201 
 
 July 1st the regiment was in tlie trendies before the enemy 
 and under a brisk fire until the surrender, which occurred 
 on the 8th. The loss during the siege was sixty-six offi- 
 cers and men. On the 11th the regiment entered, as 
 victors, the fortress, and subsequently went by transport 
 to Carrollton, serving there and elsewliere until mustei-ed 
 out September 30, 1863, having served ten and a lialf 
 months, or six weeks longer tlian the period of enlistment. 
 
 Of the 698 men on the roll, reports show: Killed, 14; 
 died of wounds, 4; died of disease, 47; discharged prior 
 to muster out, 38. 
 
 The only engagement of the regiment was at Port 
 Hudson. 
 
 TWENTY-FIFTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THE Twenty-fifth was also sent to Louisiana and 
 served its term there. It was recruited for nine 
 montlis, in Hartford and Tolland counties, and was of 
 excellent material. It left Camp Halleck, Hartford, No- 
 vember 11th, with 811 men, for Camp Buckingliam. 
 Tlience it was sent to New Orleans to join General Banks' 
 command, going first to Baton Rouge, where it was brio-- 
 aded with the Tliirteenth, the brigade being commanded 
 by Colonel Birge. On the 13th of March, 1863, the regi- 
 ment, with others, made a feint to the rear of Port Hud- 
 son, to divert the attention of the enemy while the fleet 
 under Farragut ran the batteries. This was successful, 
 and the expedition then retired in a severe storm which, 
 it is claimed, frustrated the intention of the enemy to 
 attack the Union troops. After various movements, in 
 which Donaldsonville, Thibodeaux, Bayou Boeuf, and Bra- 
 
206 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 shear City were visited, the regiment, on the 14th of April, 
 had its fiercest fight at Irish Bend. Colonel Bisscll was 
 in command, and the gallantry with whicli the regiment 
 engaged the enemy may be inferred from its loss of nearly 
 one hundred killed and wounded. The only commissioned 
 officers killed were Captain Haydcn of Windsor Locks, 
 and Lieutenant Dewey of Hartford, but five others were 
 wounded. From April 14th to May 25th the regiment had 
 a series of exhausting marches during Banks' first Red 
 River campaign, ending near Port Hudson, where the regi- 
 ment was assigned a position near the center in the invest- 
 ment. Major Thomas McManus of Hartford, being in com- 
 mand. Excellent service wa'^s performed in the siege; 
 twenty-eight men were lost in the May assault, and eight- 
 een in the second assault in June. After the surrender of 
 the place the regiment showed the results of its hard serv- 
 ice, only 140 men being fit for duty on tlie 26th of July. 
 Thereafter easier duties were had until the expiration of 
 the term of service and muster out, August 26, 1863. 
 
 The casualties were: Killed in action, 14; died of 
 wounds, 13 ; died of disease, 56 ; discharged prior to mus- 
 ter out of regiment, 60. 
 
 TWENTY-SIXTH INFAHTRY. 
 
 THIS regiment, for nine months' service, was recruited 
 in New London and Windham counties, rendez- 
 voused at Camp Russell, Norwich, and with 810 men 
 started for the field November 13, 1862, under Colonel 
 Thomas G. Kingslcy of Franklin. As in the case of the 
 Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth, a short stay was had at 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 207 
 
 Camp Buckingham, L. 1., and the regiment was then sent 
 to Louisiana to join General Banks' army. After various 
 services of secondary interest, the regiment had its first 
 general engagement in the assault on Port Hudson in 
 May. It was subjected to a terrific fire at short range, as 
 it occupied a particularly dangerous position in the 
 assaulting line, and suffered a loss of 107 •officers and 
 men. Colonel Kingslcy was wounded. Captain Stanton 
 of Norwich was killed, and Captain Randall of Groton 
 was wounded and died twelve days later. On the 13th of 
 June, eight men were lost in skirmishing in front of Port 
 Hudson, and the following day, out of 235 men wlio 
 engaged in the second assaidt on the position, the loss was 
 59 killed or wounded. This was fully half the loss sus- 
 tained by the entire brigade to which the regiment be- 
 longed, and proves the gallantry of its service. From 
 this time until its term expired the regiment liad less 
 dangerous service, and, returning to Connecticut, was 
 mustered out at Norwich, August 17, 1863, 
 
 The casualties, out of a force of 810 men, were: Killed 
 in action, 15; died of wounds, 30 ; died of disease, 72; 
 discharged prior to muster-out of regiment, 169. 
 
 The principal engagements were: Port Hudson, La., 
 May 27th, June 13th and 14th, 1863. 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THIS regiment during its brief career of nine months, 
 was in three of the most terrible battles of the war, 
 it being sent to A^irginia instead of the Department of tlie 
 Gulf. It was organized in September, 1862, was recruited 
 
208 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 wlioUy in New Haven connty, and, as the official records 
 state, " was composed of some of the finest and best edu- 
 cated young men resident in the county," and was under 
 the command of Colonel Richard S. Bostwick. It left its 
 camp in New Haven, October 22, 1862, with 829 men and 
 went direct to Washington, where it was assigned to the 
 Army of the Potomac. Six weeks later it received its 
 first baptism of fire at Fredericksburg, where it suffered 
 a galling fusilade and lost 108 men. This was out of a 
 force diminished by the previous withdrawal of 260 of its 
 men for picket duty at Falmouth. After Fredericksburg 
 the regiment was engaged in picket and other duties until 
 the following May (1863), when it was plunged into the 
 thickest of the terrible battle of Chancellorsville, and was 
 almost decimated by the capture of 18 officers and 265 
 men. The loss otherwise was light — two killed and seven 
 wounded. The captured soon returned to the regiment 
 by exchange, and the next engagement was at Get- 
 tysburg in July. In this, however, it was more fortunate, 
 and escaped with a loss of only thirty-nine killed, wounded, 
 and missing. The same month, its term of service having 
 expired, the regiment was mustered out, having had a 
 remarkable career for one so short a time in service. Most 
 of its service had been side by side with the veteran troops 
 of Hooker and Meade. In the fight at Fredericksburg, 
 Captain Schweizer of New Haven was killed, and Captain 
 A. D. Taylor of the same city was mortally wounded. 
 At Gettysburg, Lieutenant-Colonel Merwin and Captain 
 J. Chapman, Jr., both of New Haven, were killed. 
 
 The casualties during the Twenty-seventh's term of 
 service were: Killed in action, 28; died of wounds, 17 ; 
 died of disease, 22; discharged prior to muster-out of 
 regiment, 82. 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 209 
 
 The engagements which the regiment is entitled to have 
 emblazoned on its flag are: Fredericksburg, Va., Decem- 
 ber, 1862 ; Cliancellorsvillc, Va., May, 1863; Gettysburg, 
 Pa., July, 1863. 
 
 TWENTY-EIGHTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THIS was the last regiment of nine months' men 
 raised in the state. Composed of eight companies 
 from Fairfield and Litchfield counties, numbering 678 
 men, in went into camp at New Haven, and, Noveml:»er 
 18, 1862, under Colonel S. P. Ferris of Stamford, who 
 was appointed from the regular army to its command, it 
 left for the field. After brief duty at Jacksonville, Fla., 
 it joined General Banks' army in Louisiana, moving 
 against Port Hudson, and was in the second assault, June 
 14, 1863. The loss was 59 killed, wounded, and missing, 
 including Captain Hoag of New Milford and Lieutenant 
 Durand of Stamford, killed. After the surrender of the 
 place, tlie regiment formed part of the garrison until 
 relieved and ordered liome, the muster-out taking place at 
 New Haven, August 28, 1863. 
 
 The casualties reported were: Killed in action, 9; died 
 of wounds, 9; died of disease, 65; discharged prior to 
 muster-out of regiment, 14. 
 
210 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 COLOBED TROOPS. 
 
 TWENTY-NINTH INFANTRY. 
 
 THIS was the first colored regiment raised in Connec- 
 ticut, and several officers who had long been in ser- 
 vice in the field resigned to accept commissions in it. By 
 January, 1864, the maximum number had been enlisted, 
 and effecting an organization at New Haven, the regiment 
 was mustered into service March 8, 1864. Four days 
 later Colonel Wooster of Derby, formerly lieutenant-colo- 
 nel of the Twentieth, took command, and on the 20tli the 
 regiment left New Haven by vessel for Annapolis. It was 
 there armed with Springfield rifles, and being assigned to 
 the Ninth corps, sailed for Beaufort, S. C, where the men 
 were under instruction for several months. In August, 
 
 1864, it was transferred to Bermuda Hundred, Va., and 
 performed its initiatory duty in the face of the enemy — a 
 reconnoissance — in a highly creditable manner. Subse- 
 quently tlie regiment was in the trenches near Petersburg 
 for several weeks (sustaining some losses), and leaving in 
 September, was employed in reconnoitering, etc., until 
 November 19th, when it was assigned to garrison impor- 
 tant detached posts on the New Market road. In October, 
 
 1865, in an action at Kell House, it lost 80 men killed and 
 wounded. In December it was removed to the left of 
 Fort Harrison, and spent the winter in picketing, building 
 fortifications, etc. In early April, 1865, the fighting to 
 the left of the regiment was heavy, the regiment being 
 stationed at Fort Harrison, with orders to observe care- 
 fully the rebel movements in Fort Darling. Monday 
 morning, April 3d, the rebels deserting their post, the 
 Twenty-ninth advanced, climbed the breast-works, and 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 211 
 
 entered the fort. Thence there was a race to Richmond, 
 which the rebels liad evacuated, and it is claimed by tlie 
 officers of the Twenty-ninth that Companies C and G of 
 their regiment were the first Union troops that entered 
 the rebel capital. After remaining at Richmond a few 
 days, the regiment was transferred to Texas, arriving at 
 Brazos de Santiago in July. Thence it marclied to 
 Brownsville and remained there until ordered home. It 
 was paid off at Hartford, November .25, 1865, having been 
 in service one year and eight months. 
 
 The regiment had on its rolls about 1,300 men — original 
 enlistments and recruits. The casualties were : Killed in 
 action, 23; died of wounds, 22; died of disease, 153; dis- 
 charged prior to muster out, 135. 
 
 The engagements were : Ncai- Petersburg, August and 
 September, 1864 ; advance on Richmond, September and 
 October, 1864; Kell House, and Darbytown Road, Va., 
 October, 1864. 
 
 THIRTIETH INFANTRY. 
 
 IT having been ascertained that more than one colored 
 regiment could be raised in Connecticut, tlie organiza- 
 tion of the Thirtieth was begun in New Haven in the winter 
 of 1863-4. It was never filled to the maximum, and only 
 four companies were finally organized. These were 
 ordered to Virginia, and in June, 1864, were consolidated 
 with the Thirty-first United States colored troops. The 
 regiment's first figlit was at the assault on the defences of 
 Petersburg, July 30, 1864, Avhere it lost 136, including 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Ross, who fell, seriously wounded, 
 while at the head of his men. In October, 1864, twenty 
 
212 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 men were lost in a severe skirmish near Fort Sedgwick, 
 and the following month the regiment passed nnder the 
 connnand of Colonel Henry C. Ward of Hartford, who had 
 been promoted from a captaincy in the Twenty-ninth Con- 
 necticut infantry. After dangerous service in the picket 
 line of the Bermuda Hundred defences, the regiment 
 joined the Twenty-fifth corps near Fort Harrison. During 
 the spring of I8G0 the regiment participated in the opera- 
 tions on the southwest of Petersburg, ending in the evacu- 
 ation of Richmond. April 3d commenced the pursuit of 
 the flying enemy, wliicli lasted six days. The regiment 
 averaged sixteen hours' marching daily, and in the last 
 thirty hours, ending at 11 p. m. on the 8th, achieved sixty 
 miles. After the surrender at Appomattox, the Thirtieth 
 was sent to Texas, remaining there until the winter, when 
 the Connecticut companies returned to Hartford and were 
 discharged. 
 
 The losses of tlie four Connecticut companies were: 
 Killed in action, 15; died of wounds 4; died of disease, 
 47 ; discharged prior to muster out of regiment, 47. 
 
 The engagements in which they participated were: 
 Petersburg Mine, Va., near Fort Sedgwick and Bermuda 
 Front, in 1864, and before Petersburg and Appomattox in 
 1875. The officers were commissioned by the President. 
 
THE BOYS IN BLUE. 
 
 213 
 
 The followincj is a list of Connecticut organizations 
 servin<2: during the war, their dates of entry and discharge, 
 and terms of service : — 
 
 Organization. 
 
 1st Cavalry, . . . . 
 
 1st Squadron Cavalry, 
 
 1st Heavy Artillery, 
 
 2d " 
 
 1st Light Battery, 
 
 2d " 
 
 3d. Independ. Battery 
 
 1st luftiutry, 
 
 2d " 
 
 3d " 
 
 4th " 
 
 5th " 
 
 6th " 
 
 7th " 
 
 8th " 
 
 9th " 
 
 10th " 
 
 11th " 
 
 12th " 
 
 13th " 
 
 14th " 
 
 15th " 
 
 16th " 
 
 17th " 
 
 18th " 
 
 19th " 
 
 20th " 
 
 21st " 
 
 22d " 
 
 23d " 
 
 24th " 
 
 25th " 
 
 26th " 
 
 27th " 
 
 28th " 
 
 £9th " 
 
 30th " 
 
 Date of 
 Musteriu. 
 
 Oct. 20, 1861 
 Aug. 13, 1861 
 May 23, 1861 
 Sept. 11, 1862 
 Oct. 26, 1861 
 Sept. 10, 1862 
 Sept.—, 1864 
 Apr. 23, 1861 
 May 7, 1861 
 May 14, 1861 
 
 Changed to 
 .Tilly 23, 1861 
 Sept. 13, 1861 
 Sept. 17, 1861 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 Nov. 1, 1861 
 Oct. 26, 1861 
 Nov. 27, 1861 
 Dec. 31, 1861 
 Feb. 18, 1862 
 Aug. 23, 1862 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 Aug. 24, 1862 
 Aug. 29, 1862 
 Aug. 22, 1862 
 
 Changed to 
 Sept. 8, 1862 
 Sept. 5, 1862 
 Sept. 20, 1862 
 Nov. 14, 1802 
 Nov. 18, 1862 
 Nov. 11, 1862 
 Nov. 10, 1863 
 Oct. 22, 1862 
 Nov. 15, 1862 
 Mch. 8, 1864 
 Mch. — , 18G4 
 
 Date of 
 Muster-out. 
 
 Term 
 of Service. 
 
 Aug. 
 .June 
 Sept. 
 Aug. 
 June 
 Aug. 
 June 
 July 
 Aug. 
 Aug. 
 
 1st 
 July 
 Aug. 
 July 
 Dec. 
 Aug. 
 Aug. 
 Dec. 
 Aug. 
 Apr. 
 May 
 June 
 June 
 July 
 June 
 
 2d 
 June 
 .June 
 July 
 Aug. 
 Sept. 
 Aug. 
 Aug. 
 July 
 Aug. 
 Oct. 
 Nov. 
 
 2, 1865 
 23, 1865 
 25, 1865 
 
 18, 1865 
 
 11, 1865 
 9, 1865 
 
 23, 1865 
 31, 1861 
 
 7, 1861 
 
 12, 1861 
 Heavy 
 
 19, 1865 
 21, 1865 
 
 20, 1865 
 12, 1865 
 
 3, 1865 
 25, 1865 
 
 21, 1865 
 
 12, 1865 
 
 25, 1866 
 31, 1865 
 27, 1865 
 
 24, 1865 
 19, 1865 
 27, 1865 
 Heavy 
 
 13, 1865 
 16, 1865 
 
 7. 1863 
 31, 1863 
 30, 1863 
 
 26, 1863 
 
 27, 1863 
 
 27, 1863 
 
 28, 1863 
 24, 1865 
 
 7, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 9 nios. 
 
 3 yrs. 10 mos. 
 
 4 yrs. 4 mos. 
 
 2 yrs. 1 1 mos. 
 
 3 yrs. 8 mos. 
 
 2 yj s. 1 1 mos. 
 
 9 mos. 
 3 mos. 
 3 mos. 
 3 mos. 
 Artillery. 
 
 4 yis. 
 
 3 yrs. 11 mos. 
 
 3 yrs. 10 mos. 
 
 4 yrs. 2 mos. 
 3 yrs. 9 mos. 
 
 3 yrs. 10 mos. 
 
 4 yrs. 1 mo. 
 
 3 yrs. 8 mos. 
 
 4 yrs. 2 mos. 
 2 yrs. 9 mos. 
 2 yrs. 10 mos. 
 2 yrs. 10 mos. 
 2 yrs. 11 mos. 
 2 yrs. 10 mos. 
 Artillery. 
 
 2 yrs. 9 mos. 
 
 2 yrs. 9 mos. 
 
 10 mos. 
 
 9 mos. 
 10 mos. 
 
 9 mos. 
 
 9 mos. 
 
 9 mos. 
 
 9 mos. 
 1 yr. 8 mos. 
 1 yr. 8 mos. 
 
214 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 THE NAYT. 
 
 CONNECTICUT furnished to the country the Secre- 
 retary of the Navy in the "War Cabinet, Gideon 
 Welles, under whose administration the whole manage- 
 ment of the navy indicated administrative ability of the 
 highest order. His power and foresight as an executive 
 officer were shown in the creation, almost as if by magic, 
 of a powerful naval force, in his selection of men for 
 important commands, in the construction of an iron-clad 
 navy of novel design (the essential features of which have 
 since been adopted by the leading maritime powers of the 
 world), in the adoption and use of heavy ordnance, in 
 utilizing the fugitive slaves or " contrabands," and in 
 other measures not less important. 
 
 Secretary Welles held the office for a longer period 
 than the position had Ijeen occupied by any other Secre- 
 tary of the Navy, and it is safe to say that no one has 
 been more universally respected, esteemed, and honored 
 by the officers of the navy and others connected with the 
 service. Mr. Welles, on his retirement from the cabinet 
 in 1869, resumed his residence in Hartford, where he died 
 on the 11th of February, 1878, having attained to the ripe 
 age of 76 years. 
 
 Secretary Welles was ably assisted in the administra- 
 tion of naval affairs by the Assistant Secretary, William 
 Faxon, also of Connecticut, who still survives, honored 
 and respected alike for the manner in which he discharged 
 his official duties, and his private worth. 
 
 The State was credited on its quota of men furnished 
 the national cause with 2,143 voluntary enlistments in the 
 naval service. It is probable that not less than 3,000 of 
 its citizens were represented there. 
 

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 (Secretary of Navy, 1861 to 1869.) 
 
THE NAVY. 217 
 
 Connecticut's "Roll of Honor" is one of which she 
 should be proud. 
 
 One of her sons, Commander J, H. Ward, in command 
 of the Potomac flotilla, was killed by a rebel sharpshooter 
 at Aquia Creek, the first year of the war. He was the 
 first of prominence to fall in the struggle for the preser- 
 vation of the Union, and his burial with military honors, 
 in the old North Cemetery at Hartford, will be remem- 
 bered by many of its citizens as the first lesson they 
 learned of the consequences of war. 
 
 Another. Rear-Admiral Andrew H. Foote, whose bril- 
 liant achievements on the Mississippi are so well remem- 
 bered, called from his work there to assume a more 
 important command on the South Atlantic, died from sick- 
 ness in New York, induced by his exposures and labors in 
 his first command. 
 
 Commander Wainwright, a former resident of Hartford, 
 whose father, Bishop of New York, was at one time 
 rector of Christ church in this city, fell on the deck of 
 his ship at Galveston, refusing to surrender to the enemy. 
 
 Paymaster Gillette, killed in the assault on Fort Fisher, 
 and scores of others, now rest in the cemeteries at Hart- 
 ford, New Haven, and other towns of the State. 
 
 Otliers surviving the war have since been mustered to 
 their last call. 
 
 While prominent among those who survive and who 
 deserve mention are Commodores Hitchcock, Hunt, 
 Green, and Hull, Captains Bowers and Stillman now re- 
 tired, " for long and faithful service, or for wounds or 
 injury received in the time of duty, or sickness or exposure 
 therein." 
 
 Some still remain in active service, reflecting honor 
 and credit in their official station upon the State from 
 which they hail. 
 
218 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Rcar-Admiral Rodgers, in command of the Pacific 
 squadron, guards the interests of his country's commer- 
 cial marine, exposed in the war between Peru and Chili 
 on the South American coast. "Ned" Terry, his Jflcet 
 captain, and commander of the flag ship, whose brilliant 
 services on the Mississippi, at Port Hudson and Mobile, 
 received the official acknowledgment and praise so highly 
 prized in military circles. Frank Bunco, selected to com- 
 mand the double-turreted monitor Monadnock in her trip 
 around the Horn. Captains Huntington and Bishop of 
 the Marine Corps. Henry White, the executive oflficer of 
 the Tigress in the search to the Arctic regions for the sur- 
 vivors of the Polaris Expedition, and others equally 
 deserving mention, but of less prominence in official 
 station, are sons of the old Nutmeg State. 
 
 One hundred and seventy-six of the naval veterans 
 represented their arm of the service in the ceremonies of 
 Flag Day — officers and sailors alike proud of the oppor- 
 tunity to show their respect for their brothers in the mil- 
 itary service, and assist in the removal of the flags which 
 they had borne in the field, to their appropriate resting 
 place in the Capitol of the State. 
 
 Although to the Navy it is not accorded that the record 
 of its engagements shall be emblazoned on its ensigns, 
 the country can not forget that to its sailors it owes the 
 capture of New Orleans, and the opening of the Missis- 
 sippi river, and that of Mobile, Charleston, and Fort 
 Fisher. The Potomac and the James bear witness what it 
 accomplished in the great struggle for the preservation of 
 the Union. 
 
 Of the veterans present in Hartford on the 17th, 
 some had served with Foote and Porter on the Mississippi, 
 with Farragut at New Orleans, Port Hudson, and Mobile, 
 
THE NAVY. 219 
 
 with Lanman of Connecticut in the East Gulf block- 
 ading squadron, with Dahlgren at Sumter and Charles- 
 ton, with DuPont at Port Royal and Hilton Head, with 
 Lee and Porter at Fort Fisher, Wilmington, and the North 
 Atlantic, with Ward and Parker on the Potomac, and 
 with Winslow and Collins in the capture of the Alabama 
 and Florida. 
 
 The battalion marched under the colors usually borne 
 by the navy when serving on shore, the national ensign 
 and the Union Jack, and was under the command of 
 Capt. Charles A. Stillman (retired), of the U. S, Marine 
 Corps. The adjutant of the battalion was William F. 
 Durand, of Derby, a cadet of the U. S. Naval Academy 
 at Annapolis, Md., whose rank in his class is a credit to his 
 State. The company officers were George Ellis, formerly 
 an assistant engineeer of the Navy; A. H. Rowe, and 
 Walter Pearcc, acting masters ; George C. Campbell, 
 acting ensign ; John B. Russell, Jr., and Albert B. Gillett. 
 In the ranks officers, seamen, and landsmen marched 
 without regard to the rank held while in the service, and 
 in appearance and discipline, compared favorably with the 
 old veterans of the army. 
 
PICK-UPS ALONG THE FKONT AND REAP. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 STRAGGLERS. 
 
 AMONG the interesting regimental flags that were 
 borne through tlie war and deposited at the Cap- 
 itol was one belonging to the Ninth regiment. It was of 
 Itlue silk. On both sides the State coat-of-arms was em- 
 l)lazoned on an American shield. On one side, on the 
 ground of the State coat-of-arms, was an Irish harp. On 
 the festoons below the shield was inscribed the words 
 "Erin go bragh;" and below the shields were also two 
 crossed cannons. 
 
 The first flag carried by the old Tenth C. V. is now in 
 the rooms of the New Haven Colony Historical Society. 
 It was a gift to the regiment from Thomas R. Trowbridge, 
 and went through a number of liard fought engagements. 
 When badly worn and torn, and a new one rendered 
 necessary, it was returned to the hands of the donor, and 
 deposited with the Historical Society. 
 
 At the residence of Captain Kinney, on Main street, 
 was shown a flag captured during the war. It bore the 
 words, "The ladies of Franklin to the St. Mary's Can- 
 noniers." Underneath was the inscription: 
 
 "Sing, licy, the merry soldier that you are, 
 Sing, hey, the veteran and the tar." 
 
PICK-UPS. 221 
 
 At Warreii Rowley's was shown all that remained of a 
 flag carried at Port Royal by Company A, Seventh Regi- 
 ment C. V. It was merely a remnant. 
 
 David Clark showed the remains of a flag carried by 
 the Clark Guard, Captain Gore, at Bull Run. It was rid- 
 dled with bullets. 
 
 From the United States Hotel were thrown two small 
 flags well riddled with bullets. They belonged to Major 
 J. T. Butler, of Battery G, Second U. S. Army, and were 
 carried on his guns during the war. They were shown 
 from the rooms of Dr. Butler, father of the major. 
 
 Company G, Seventh C. V. (the Townsend Rifles), 
 named in honor of James M. Townsend of East Haven, 
 carried their old flag which they had throughout the war, 
 and which was the gift of Mr. Townsend, presented by 
 liim to the assembled company at the camping ground of 
 the regiment, before they ]^it for the seat of war. 
 
 Among the flags thrown to the breeze was one from 
 Farragut's fleet. It was shot from the gaff of the Alba- 
 tross at the battle of Grand Gulf, when Farragut went up 
 the Mississippi, and part of the gaff on the mizzen mast 
 was carried away with it. It is an ensign, eight feet long, 
 worn and faded, and badly torn at the spot where it 
 was shot; but it was put in order and strung across 
 the street in front of the residence of C. G Lincoln, No. 
 784 Main street, and as the veterans marched under it 
 they read: "From Farragut's Fleet." It is now the prop- 
 erty of Mrs. Thomas Marshall, of Hudson street, into 
 whose hands it came from her nephew, William H. Marcy, 
 paymaster's clerk of the Albatross. 
 
 A bass drum was in the procession on Battle-Flag Day 
 that was captured, together with the flag, from a Georgia 
 
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222 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 regiment at the battle of Irish Bend. The capture was 
 made hy the Beaton brothers of New Britain, who were 
 members of the Thirteenth regiment C. V. The drum 
 was lettered on its heads so as to be recognized. The 
 heads are made of tanned mule skin. The drum is in 
 perfect order, and its tones as sonorous as ever. 
 
 General Greeley, of the executive committee of the 
 Tenth Connecticut Volunteer Association, sent his com- 
 rades a circular about the Battle-Flag Day exercises, and 
 among other things requested that the men should appear 
 with black felt hats. Horace K. Parsons of Florence, 
 Mass., formerly quartermaster, immediately on recei})t of 
 the circular, made out a requisition in regular form for 
 six hundred black felt hats, and took it to his near neigh- 
 bor, General J. L. Otis, formei'ly colonel and now State 
 senator, who indorsed his approval and " respectfully for- 
 warded" it to General Greeley. It is needless to add 
 that several hundred veterans were present, all with black 
 felt hats. Among them was "Father Taylor," as he was 
 often called — a hero of the IMexican war and nearly 
 seventy years of age — who marched the entire distance. 
 
 Quite a number of members of the old signal corps 
 were heard from through the diligence of J. J. Shepard 
 of Hartford, and mostly were with their own commands, 
 but six were detailed for duty, mounted and bearing sig- 
 nal flags on the chief marshal's staff, under command of 
 Lieutenant J. C. Abbott. They conducted communica- 
 tions between the chief marslial and the railroad super- 
 intendents before the column started, signalling all the 
 artillery salutes and signals and otherwise were very 
 useful. 
 
 Captain Joseph H. Barnum, of the Sixteenth i-egiment, 
 served in the first three months' company from Hartford. 
 
PICK-UPS. 225 
 
 Just before the Bull Run engagement one of the mem- 
 bers of his company wanted him to take liis watch and 
 what money he had in his possession, and convey it to 
 his sister in Hartford, remarking that he felt sure he was 
 going to be killed. Captain Barimm declined to receive 
 the trust, as he was in as much danger as any one and as 
 liable to be shot. During the fight, an hour or so after- 
 wards, the man was actually struck by a Minnie ball, but 
 escaped injury, as the missive of death lodged in the very 
 watch he had been trying to get Captain Barnum to keep 
 for him. Tiie watch is still in existence. 
 
 Captain E. E. Wildman of Danbury, who commanded 
 the First regiment of infantry in the parade, wore the 
 first sword captured from the rebels during the war. It 
 was taken from one of three reconnoitering rebel cavalry- 
 men who surrendered to Sergeant J. W. Crane of this 
 city, of General Hawley's three months' company. 
 
 All the regiments wore badges. They were printed on 
 silk or satin ribbon, varying in tint from the clearest white 
 to deep sliades of red and blue, and were aj)propriately 
 inscribed in black, blue, or red inks, or gilt, with the num- 
 ber of the regiment, and many of them with some device, 
 such as the State coat-of-anns, or the badges of the corps 
 to which the respective regiments belonged. Some of 
 them also bore the names of all the leading battles in 
 which the regiments participated, as in the case of the 
 Fifth Connecticut Infantry and the First Connecticut Cav- 
 alry. The first named was in gilt letters on a blue ground. 
 The latter, the most elegant of all the badges, we believe, 
 was printed on a straw-colored satin ribbon three inches 
 wide, in black ink, the device being two crossed swords. 
 (See illustration.) 
 
 The members of the Fifth and Twentieth regiments re- 
 
226 HISTORY OF BATTLE- FLAG DAY. 
 
 siding at Hartford prepared badges for tlie use of members 
 of the two regiments. They were together in tlie Twelfth 
 corps under General Slocum, and afterwards in the Twen- 
 tieth corps under Generals Hooker and Slocum. The badge 
 of the Twelfth corps was a star, and when the Eleventh 
 and Twelfth corps were consolidated in forming the Twen- 
 tieth corps, the star was adopted as the corps badge of the 
 latter. The Fifth Connecticut Volunteer veterans wore a 
 red star in their hats (denoting first division), and the 
 Twentieth Connecticut Volunteers wore a red star with a 
 smaller blue one in the center, denoting first and third 
 divisions. The members of each regiment wore a blue silk 
 badge with the names of the battles of each regiment in- 
 scribed thereon. 
 
 Major H. G. Dcnniston has a gold badge which was pre- 
 sented to him on the field of battle, at the close of the fight, 
 at Five Forks, Va., a short time l^efore the close of the 
 war. Major-General Charles Griffin commanded on the 
 occasion, and it was supposed the battle was over, when a 
 sharp fire of musketry was opened on the right. General 
 Grififin turned to Major Denniston, who was then an assis- 
 tant adjutant-general of the Second l)rigade, and said, 
 " Stop that little firing," and detailed the Second brigade 
 and part of the First, of the First division, and with this 
 force Major D. marched upon the Confederates. It was a 
 short, but sharp contest, al)Out 400 Union men falling in 
 the fight. But the Confederates were defeated, and four 
 guns and a largo number of prisoners were taken. Re- 
 turning, Major Denniston reported : " General, we have 
 stopped that little firing." The general tore from his 
 breast tlie badge of the First division — red ground set in 
 gold — and gave it to Major Denniston as a recognition of 
 his efficient services on the occasion. The Imdge is in- 
 
PICK-UPS. 227 
 
 scribed : " Capt. A. G. Denniston, A. A. Gen'l ; presented 
 by Major-General Charles Griffin, at Five Forks, Va." 
 
 Captain E. M. Neville and Captain Spellman, formerly 
 of the Harris Light Cavalry, came on from New York to 
 attend. Captain Neville was formerly of Hartford, and an 
 officer at one time in the State militia, and did duty at the 
 brigade encampment held at Pembroke Lake, Bridgeport. 
 
 Colonel Jacob L. Greene, who was appointed assistar.t 
 marshal, in charge of the second division of the parade, 
 entered the service as a captain in the Sixth Michigan 
 cavalry, was subsequently appointed assistant adjutant- 
 general with the rank of colonel, and was afterwards adju- 
 tant-general and chief of staff to the late General Custer. 
 
 General L. A. Dickinson has the complete record of the 
 members of his old company in the Twelfth regiment, 
 made out on a rebel company roll which he picked up dur- 
 ing the Louisiana campaign. He has kept it since the war, 
 and has it at his headquarters in the -^tna Fire Company's 
 office. 
 
 Colonel Ely, who commanded the Eighteenth, wore the 
 sword which was shattered by a cannon ball while he was 
 leading an assault at Winchester. The colonel, with a 
 number of his command, was captured, and the rebel gen- 
 eral to whom he surrendered, seeing the condition of his 
 sword, told him he was entitled to keep it. 
 
 The First Connecticut cavalry sent special invitations to 
 their former major, George 0. Marcy, and Adjutant Harry 
 J. 0. Walker, both of whom are in Chicago, and received 
 the following joint reply by telegraph : " We send you a 
 hearty greeting, and curse our bad luck which prevents our 
 being with you to-day." 
 
 General McClellan telegraphed to General Hawley from 
 
228 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Orange, N. J., in response to an invitation to join in the 
 veteran ceremonies as follows : " Am sick in bed ; very 
 sorrj 1 cannot come ; many thanks." 
 
 General Carrington, U. S. A., of Indiana, upon leaving 
 Hartford, left the following note for General Hawley : 
 
 Hartford, September 18, 1879. 
 
 Dear General : — I return west at once, thankful that 
 when I received your invitation last Friday morning I ac- 
 cepted my heart impulses to go to my native State and 
 witness the honor to be paid to the Battle Flags. Never 
 before did I realize as fully the value of our State motto, 
 " Qui Transtulit Sustinet."" Truly He who brought our 
 forefathers to America lias sustained ; but in a most em- 
 phatic and solemn sense is now made true this motto, 
 when we see that He who carried us through the great 
 struggle to procure the gift of liberty still sustains and as- 
 sures its perpetuity. Tlie lesson of this Battle-Flag cere- 
 mony will never be forgotten by the thousands of young 
 people wiio asked its meaning, and whenever Connecticut 
 shall be called to express her will as to any issue that shall 
 affect tlie integrity and entirety of the republic, she will 
 act in the spirit of that consecration which the 17th of 
 September honored. Truly your friend, 
 
 Henry B. Carrington, U. S. A. 
 
 The following dispatch from the Lieutenant-General of 
 the army was received by General Hawley, and read by 
 him to the gathering of veterans in front of the Capitol on 
 Wednesday afternoon. The crowd was so vast that only 
 a limited number present pro^wably heard it : 
 
 Chicago, Sept. 17. 
 Your letter of the 10th was received on my return this 
 morning. I regret very nmch that I cannot be with you 
 
PICK-UPS. 229 
 
 to-day on the occasion of the removal of the flags. With 
 warm love for all companions and friends, I am, 
 
 P. H. Sheridan. 
 General Banks telegraphed his inability to accept the 
 invitation of the committee. 
 
 I. C. Peck of Unionville, of the Twenty-first regiment, 
 was struck in his bclj; by a bullet at the battle of Irish 
 Bend ; the ball glanced and lodged in a towel in his breast- 
 pocket. He is now an invalid, but in a carriage on Flag 
 day carried the old flag. 
 
 Captain Edward W. Bacon (pastor of the Congrega- 
 tional church at New London) looked the proudest man in 
 the procession as he marched at the head of his old com- 
 pany of the Twenty-ninth. Mr. Bacon is one of Dr. 
 Leonard Bacon's sons, and is justly proud of having 
 served with this regiment. The reception given by the 
 mass of veterans to the colors of the Twenty-ninth and 
 Thirtieth was one of the grandest and most suggestive 
 features of the formal delivery of the flags. 
 
 Probably Hie oldest person who marched Battle-Flag 
 Day in the line was the Rev. T. G. Brown of East Hamp- 
 ton, now 81 years of age. He was in the war of 1812, 
 and served three years as chaplain of the Twenty-first 
 regiment, and was highly respected and beloved by all the 
 men. 
 
 A rather noticeable feature in the parade of the 17th 
 inst. was an old man 74 years of age, who marched the 
 whole distance. He also had two sons in the parade. 
 His name is William Rodman of Haddam Neck, Conn. 
 He belonged to Co. C, Twentieth C. V. 
 
 Postmaster B. G. Loomis of Pine Meadow was among 
 the veterans. He was drum major of the Second Con- 
 
230 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 necticiit at the first battle of Bull Run, and held the same 
 position in the First Louisiana volunteers. He is now- 
 over 71 years of age. 
 
 Major-General H. W. Birge, the first colonel of the 
 Thirteenth, commanded it in the parade, much to the 
 delight of his boys. Every company gave hearty cheers 
 in passing No. 230 Main street, where tlie captured bat- 
 tery flag was prominently displayed, with the explanatory 
 placard. 
 
 George A. Hurburt, of Buckingham (Glastonbury), 
 rode with the veterans, mounted on the horse that carried 
 liim through the war. 
 
 Company D, Twentieth regiment, on being mustered out 
 of service numbered 47 men, six of wliom have since 
 died, and all the others (41) were present here on Flag 
 day. 
 
 Lieutenant SewMrd of the Fourteenth, one of the assist- 
 ant marshals, while a private in the Fourteenth, was 
 wounded at Fredericksburg, shot through the body at 
 Gettysburg, lost an arm in the " Wilderness," while first 
 lieutenant of Company H. 
 
 In Company D, of the Twelfth regiment, marched the 
 entire route of the procession Jonathan Reynolds of New 
 London, a one-legged cripple. He lost his right leg in the 
 battle of Winchester, on the 19th of September, lf-64. 
 We think no otlier one-legged soldier marched over the 
 whole route. 
 
 Colonel H. B. Sprague of Boston telegraphed to the 
 Thirteenth his regrets tliat he was unable to be present. 
 Also Captain H. L. Schleitcr of Meriden, who was dis- 
 abled a day or two previously by a sprained ankle. 
 
 Fifty of the sixty-five men of the First light battery 
 
PICK-UPS. 231 
 
 here on Flag day went into camp originally with the regi- 
 ment at Meriden. 
 
 Tlie Union Battalion, numbering 1,026 men under com- 
 mand of Captain H. C. Dvvight, made a fine appearance, 
 and their marching was worthy of the old veterans that 
 they are. 
 
 In the Union Battalion line were tlirec West Virginia 
 soldiers, one from Missouri, one from Florida, and tliree 
 from Georgia, who served in the confederate army during 
 the war, and who are now pledged to the Union cause. 
 
 Among the drum corps from out of town were the 
 famous veterans from Moodus, in their new uniforms, and 
 the Hammond corps from Rockville. The latter has silver 
 drums, and is comprised of young men who began when 
 mere lads. The organization is one in which the people 
 of Rockville take a commendable degree of pride. 
 
 Beneath the windows of the rooms occupied by Dr 
 
 and Mrs. John S. Butler, at the United States hotel,' were 
 
 hanging two well-worn battle flags, with the inscription : 
 
 "Battery Flags, Company G, 
 
 Second Regiment United States Artillery, 
 
 Sixth Corps." 
 
 These were the flags carried by Lieutenant (now Major) 
 J. Hartwell Butler, in the regular battery, with which he 
 did splendid service, and finally lost a leg.' 
 
 The Army and Navy club of Connecticut hold a very 
 enjoyable reunion at Merrill's cafe, about sixty-five being 
 present. It was an informal affair, not a regular reunion"^ 
 but was a very pleasant finish for the day's exercises, and 
 was made still more pleasant l)y the courtesies of the 
 Home Circle club, which were offered in a very flaftering 
 manner and accepted by a large number of the veterans! 
 
232 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 The Hartford City Guard may be interested to know- 
 that Major L. G. Hemingway, who led the City Guard 
 to war, and Captain Ed. A. Gillett of Philadelphia, who 
 commanded them on their return, were on duty with the 
 First heavy artillery. 
 
 The Times made on tlie 18th a cori-ected estimate of 
 the number of visitors who came to this city, and in the 
 light of later-ascertained facts increased that estimate to 
 from 60,000 to 60,000. This correction was written 
 before the reporters had brought in the figures of the 
 different railway companies ; and it seems we were still 
 far under the mark. By rail alone, it appears, 60,000 
 persons were brought into Hartford that day ; and it is 
 certain that at least 30,000 more came in by piivate con- 
 veyance. Many thousands drove back, to homes many 
 miles distant, at a late hour, only leaving the city near 
 midnight ; while the vehicles of as many more filled the 
 roads and avenues leading to other towns, from 5 to 10 
 o'clock p. m. From the ascertained facts, as well as from 
 the impressive ocular evidences presented throughout the 
 city, in dense throngs filling the wide open spaces of the 
 Park, and the broadest thoroughfares for long distances, 
 in a compact, solid mass, it is evident that the number of 
 visitors alone, without reckoning the resident population in 
 the streets, must have been hard on to 100,000. That 
 wns the figure that was telegraphed by the reporters for 
 several of the New" York pai)ers ; and it w^as pretty near 
 the actual mark. It is certain, at any rate, that Hartford 
 never before saw so crowded a day. What with visitors 
 and residents who turned out to see the decorations and 
 the parade, there must have been in the Park, in the streets, 
 in the balconies, and on the roofs, nearly 150,000 people. 
 
PICK-UPS. 233 
 
 It was such a crowd, probably as was never before 
 seen, out of Boston, in New England. 
 
 The First regiment C. N. G. paraded for the first time 
 in its new uniform, consisting of a dark blue double- 
 bre:?.ste(i frock coat, sky blue trowsers with scarlet facings, 
 and the new English helmet, presenting a solid and sol- 
 dierly appearance. 
 
 The morning reports showed, a total number present for 
 duty of 670, out of a membership of 744, a percentage of 
 90. This was an unusually large attendance, rarely, if 
 ever equalled in the history of the State militia. Almost 
 every uniform received from the contractors was filled. 
 
 The regiment was ordered to parade by His Excellency, 
 Governor Charles B. Andrews, Commander-in-Chief, for 
 the express purpose of escorting the Battle-Flags. 
 
 The bearing and appearance of the regiment through- 
 out the entire day was most favorably commented on by 
 thousands of spectators present. Marcliing down Main 
 street, leading the entire procession, with ten commands 
 of twenty-four solid files, its appearance was magnificent. 
 The marching and alignments elicited frequent applause 
 from spectators, and many were the compliments paid by 
 prominent military officials. 
 
 The Daily G-raphic, N. Y., says, " The sun's rays fell 
 upon the burnished helmets, buttons, and bayonets of the 
 First regiment C. N. G., marching company front in lines 
 straight as arrows." 
 
 The regiment was called upon by Gen. Hawloy, Chief 
 Marshal, for details for guard duty, and a detachment 
 under command of Lieut. George E. Lee, Company F, was 
 stationed at the State Arsenal. Companies A and F were 
 detailed to protect the dining-tents on tlie park, under 
 command of Capt. Wm. Westplial, and Lieut. Levi H. 
 
234 
 
 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Hotchkiss. A detachment from Company A was also kept 
 on duty until a late hour in the evening at the flag-cases 
 in the new Capitol. 
 
 After the close of the ceremonies at the new Capitol, 
 the regiment closed its day's duty with dress parade on 
 the west park, which was witnessed by thousands of the 
 veterans and otliers. This ceremony was handsomely per- 
 formed, and was greatly enjoyed and complimented by all 
 of the veterans present. The First regiment is now the 
 
 largest in number in the totate. 
 
COfflENTS FEOM THE PEESS. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 MEMBERS of the press from other cities were cared 
 for by tlie committee on tlie press, and furnished 
 every facility for reporting and gaining- information. A 
 lunch was provided in rooms No. 10 and 12 Tinies Build- 
 ing, which .room was the headquarters of tlie press on 
 that day. A tent Avas erected for reporters on the park, 
 at corner of Elm and Trinity streets. 
 
 THE CONNECTICUT BATTLE- FLAGS. 
 From the N Y. Tribune, Sept. 20 
 
 That was a somewhat significant celebration which they 
 had at Hartford the other day, upon the occasion of trans- 
 ferring from the State Arsenal- to the new Capitol the 
 eiglity battle-flags borne by Connecticut regiments in the 
 late war fo*r the Union. Significant, as a patriotic cere- 
 mony, of the grateful memory in which they who bore the 
 flags are held, and of the reverent regard in wliich these 
 scarred and tattered symbols will ever be maintained ; but 
 more significant by far of the deep and settled ]xiri)ose in 
 the hearts of a loyal people to hold fast the things they 
 stood for on the perilous edge of battle, and the things 
 that were rescued when they came staggering out, riddled 
 and torn, but victorious, from the storm of war. From 
 
236 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 the purely practical point of view, there seemed to be no 
 special call for this demonstration ; very little to provoke 
 it. The flags came back long ago from the historical bat- 
 tle-fields, and the battered regiments that bore them had 
 turned over their glorified shreds to the tender keeping of 
 the State. They had long been in the custody of the 
 State; their possession was no novelty; nor was there 
 anything in the simple transaction of their removal from 
 one place of safe-keeping to another, to call out ten thou- 
 sand veteran survivors of the war as an escort, with a 
 hundred thousand spectators from all parts of tlic State. 
 Yet there was the fact, that fourteen years after the furl- 
 ing of these flags, their transfer from the Arsenal to the 
 Capitol brought together a hundred thousand spectators, 
 and was the occasion of the greatest popular demonstra- 
 tion ever witnessed in the State. 
 
 ****** 
 
 It was fitting that the foremost figure upon this occasion 
 should be that of General Hawley, the first man in the 
 State to answer the call for volunteers, and enlist as a pri- 
 vate soldier in 1861, and almost the last to be mustered 
 out after the war had closed. When the first of these 
 flags were unfurled, he stood nearest the staff. No one 
 grasped its full significance sooner than he ; none followed 
 it more devotedly or courageously ; none comprehended 
 better the tremendous issues that "were wrapped up in its 
 folds. To him and to all the veterans escorting them, 
 these flags were something more than a memory. They 
 were pledges for the future as well as trophies of the past. 
 Yet in all this service no word escaped one of the actors 
 in it which was not in accord with tlie sentiment of Mayor 
 Sumner's address, in which he said : "To celebrate the 
 victory which finally crowned the arms of the north, in 
 
COMMENTS FROM THE PRESS. 237 
 
 this spirit, without malice and without vaunting, is to 
 lionor the memory of the brave men who died under the 
 Stars and Stripes, Avithout insult to the memory of the 
 brave men who died under tlie Stars and Bars." 
 
 THE RETURN OF THE FLAGS. 
 
 [Daily Cotirant, Thursday, ISth.] 
 
 It was nobly done. Probably never in this country, 
 certainly never in any other, was seen exactly such a 
 spectacle. In other States the old banners have been 
 returned at once to the proper repositories, and there has 
 been no occasion for a transfer such as was witnessed yes- 
 terday. 
 
 It is almost idle to tell of the superb manner in which 
 the colors went to their honorable shrine. It would be 
 almost literally true to say that the tattered and faded em- 
 blems were borne home on the throbbing hearts of a mil- 
 lion grateful people. It is quite true that they were car- 
 ried with all tlie honor and pageantry that patriotism 
 could suggest, tliroughsuch a concourse of people as never 
 before assembled in the State of Connecticut on any occa- 
 sion, and tliat a concourse of throbbing hearts and tearful 
 eyes. Did the old flags know how they were cheered ? 
 Did tliey rustle on their staves again at the roll of the 
 familiar drum, the heavy tread of marching men, the ring- 
 ing of bells, and the saluting cannon ? Did they feel again 
 in the strong-blowing south wind the breeze and stir of 
 battle ? It is easy to believe that they are sentient 
 tilings, and that they might, after their long repose, feel 
 the joy of the sun and of tlie martial array. 
 
 It Avas nobly done. We doubt if ever a procession and 
 a display of this magnitude were more successfully man- 
 aged. The day was perfection. Blue sky, Avith fleecy 
 
288 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 clouds, ail inspiring southwest breeze, and an air full of 
 life. Tlic city — always liandsome and stately — looked like 
 some festival city of romance. The streets were masses of 
 color. From a height one overlooked a forest of flags. 
 Triumphal arches, mottoes, and cui^ious devices, and 
 everywhere the national colors in all manner of combina- 
 tion. 
 
 And the people ! The KState was here. "If these are 
 not enough," said Andrew of the Bay State, "Massachu- 
 setts will come herself." Connecticut came to her Capitol 
 yesterday to see her boys briiig home the banners. Miles 
 and miles of streets packed with peoi)le, people in great 
 masses on the parks and open squares, and the house 
 front, from tlic low dwelling to the sky-towering public 
 buildings festooned with people. Tiie towji was full, and 
 if any mathematician can reckon how many Hartford will 
 hold, when stretched, he can approximate the number of 
 people present as spectators. 
 
 No display could be more interesting, none more 
 pathetic. It was a brilliant parade as a military affair ; 
 Init that was the least of it. It was when the ten thou- 
 sand veterans went by, regiment after regiment, bringing 
 each its colors, faded, shot, torn, fluttering in rags or tied 
 to the staff, colors carried by the hands that had made 
 them the most honored possession of the State, tliat the 
 cheers went up and tears dimmed tlie admiring eyes that 
 looked. Nor was all the pathos in the flags. How many 
 of the brave fellows who were in tlie line showed by the 
 grayish hair and grizzly beards that age has come upon 
 them since as youths they stepped out at their country's 
 call. How many carried the marks of service, of wounds, 
 of nearness to death ! Who else but these should bear the 
 sacred banners. In the line was a color-sergeant himself 
 
COMMENTS FROM THE PllESS. 239 
 
 upholding liis flag, wlio had to be supported by a comrade 
 on either hand. God bless tlicni all. 
 
 The scene at the State House upon the massing of the 
 veterans in front, upon tlie turf of the swelling hill, and 
 the final salute and deposition of the colors was one, we 
 venture to say, uuequaled in all American liistory. The 
 splendid building itself, the commanding but sloping hill 
 on whicli it stands, in the midst of but overlooking tlie 
 city, the fair park with its sward and foliage, its fountains 
 and statues, the spires and towers in sight, all tliis is a 
 lovely sight at any time. On the north front of the build- 
 ing, before the columns, the governor, witJi his brilliant 
 staff, the chief marshal with his staff and aids, the old 
 staff of the yld war governor, Buckingham, ex-generals 
 and officers of the army, governors and lieutenant-govern- 
 ors and distinguished guests were grouped in striking 
 show. Massed in front were the veterans, with colors in 
 perpendicular line through them. Beyond were the cor- 
 dons of escorts and soldiers, the beautiful new uniforms of 
 the First, and the old picturesque uniforms of the Foot 
 Guards and Horse Guards, and Putnam Phalanx, and be- 
 yond, and filling all the spaces of the park, a dense mass 
 of spectators. Such a sight one may not see in a life time 
 again. And on the level ground below the hill, were the 
 great tents, with their military suggestions. 
 
 The regiments were called in turn, and each stand of 
 colors came upon the platform, turned to the soldiers, was 
 saluted with cannon, and the roll of the drum corps, and 
 the storm of brazen bands, was dipped for the last time, 
 and cheered till the hill rang again, and then was bornJ 
 within the great hall to their cases. 
 
 The pageant was over. The veterans called for tlie 
 generals who had led them in the war and cheered them, 
 and then retired in good order to the dining tents 
 14 
 
2-40 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 [Stamford Advocate.] 
 
 Battle-flai^ day in Hartford ^vas an occasion that will 
 never be obliterated from the memory of those who were 
 participants or spectators. Hartford did herself proud on 
 the occasion. Slie treated the ten thousand veterans who 
 attended splendidly, and the fifty thousand spectators 
 have no reason to find fault. The people were well be- 
 liaved generally, and the transfer of the battle-flags was 
 performed in a manner highly creditable to the veterans 
 and the State authorities. 
 
 [Norwich Bulletin.] 
 
 No veteran soldiers can ever forget the occasion when 
 the old flags were taken so tenderly and transferred to 
 permanent quarters in the magnificent Capitol, and the 
 bounty, benevolence, and hospitality of Hartford will be 
 associated with the veterans' good-bye to their dear old 
 flags, as the tedious journeys, the exposure, the sickness, 
 the strife, the blood, and the deatli of comrades is associ- 
 ated with the service that made them sacred in the eyes of 
 the people, and dear to the soldier's heart. 
 
 [New Britain Kecord.] 
 
 Hartford did herself infinite credit, and the recollec- 
 tion of the day and the deeds it commemorated will stamp 
 themselves indelibly on the memory of those who wit- 
 nessed it. 
 
 [New Haven Palladium ] 
 
 The battle-flag celebration was a magnificent success. 
 The full report of the day's proceedings, which we publish 
 elsewhere, will be read with great interest. Nothing could 
 be in better taste than tlie brief speeches in which General 
 Hawley transferred, and Governor Andrews, in behalf of 
 the State, accepted the solemn trust of the custody of the 
 sacred I'clics. 
 
COMMENTS FROM THE PRESS. 241 
 
 [New Haven Jourual.] 
 
 "Battle-flag day" was a great success. No better 
 weather could have been desired. " Everybody " was there, 
 and the affair was well managed. We call cs})ecial atten- 
 tion to the fitness, both as regards brevity and tlie matter 
 they contain, of the remarks of Governor Andrews and 
 General Ilawley. 
 
 [Bridpjeijort Standard.] 
 
 The success of the cclel)ration seems to have been per- 
 fect, and all present bear testimony to the excellent 
 arrangements, the prompt carrying out of the programme, 
 the excellent provision for the manifold requirements of 
 such an occasion, and the enthusiastic and patriotic spirit 
 which animated the vast concourse of people. The whole 
 State has reason to be proud of the affair, and Hartford 
 may especially felicitate herself upon the honorable but 
 arduous portion of the burden which she so handsomely 
 sustained. Notliing was lacking to render the occasion a 
 memorable and a successful one in every particular, and 
 to the committees who had in charge the carrying out of 
 the details, as well as those who generously contributed 
 money and labor to the work, the thanks of the people are 
 largely due. 
 
 [New York Evening Post] 
 
 Hartford, September 17, 1879. 
 The Charter Oak city has been all a-boom to-day, and 
 is all ablaze to-night. Connecticut has never seen a 
 grander gala day. The anniversary of Antietam has 
 gathered from all parts of the State almost all the sur- 
 vivors of the Connecticut regiments that served in and 
 tht-ough the war, and they turned out full 10,000 strong, 
 while the trains and boats brought at least thirty [i\incty] 
 thousand visitors. And all for nothing more than to see 
 the old, tattered flags carried from the old State Arsenal 
 
242 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 to the now State Capitol. Their reception tlierc was a 
 simi>le cotomony, with almost as little speeoh-niaking as 
 there was when the body of Xapoleon was placed luuler 
 the dome of the Invalides. Po you reniomber those 
 model s[x^eehes ? DeJoinville said : ** Sire, I present to you 
 the ashes of Xapoleon;'' and Louis Philippe bared his 
 head and reverently replied : "I reeeive them in the name 
 of France." That was all. General Ilawley's brief 
 words to-day. transferring the eighty battle-tlags from 
 their temporary resting-place to their tinal home, seems to 
 sum np in the words ''Let them rest/' for there they will 
 rest, for ever. Governor Andrews' address was as beau- 
 tiful as it was brief; but he need have said no more than 
 these closing words : 
 
 Tliat siicrod and mysterious sympathy which goes out from ahuost 
 exexy fireside in our own borders to all the battle fields of the rebel- 
 lion finds in these ragged ensigns its dearest and intensest expres- 
 sion. 
 
 And at this late hour I must be brief, too. Tliere has 
 been no public event in the history of the State which has 
 called out so nnanimous a cordiality of feeling as this day 
 has done. Politics of all sorts have been swallowed up 
 in patriotism. The editor-in-chief of the leading Demo- 
 cratic journal in the State has been indefatigable, with 
 his fellow members of the committee, in raising the frouls 
 which have made this festival the success it has been, and 
 the Times building was conspicuous for the profusion and 
 beauty of its decorations. One of its mottoes spoke the 
 feeling of all Hartford — *'Tlio only Arms to-day — Open 
 Arms." To Major-Gencral Hawley, editor of the Courant^ 
 the chief-marshal of the day, is due the perfection and 
 precision attending every movement of the vast proces- 
 sion, and his foresight prevented any "•hitching," con- 
 
COMMENTS FROM THE PRESS. 243 
 
 fusion, or indeed anytliing to mar the order of tlie pro- 
 ceedings. Everything went like clock-work, with no 
 delay and no disorder. If there had been a dozen dress 
 rehearsals the pageant could not have been improved. 
 
 The veterans were bountifully fed by thousands in the 
 great tents on the park. All Hartford handsomely con- 
 tributed to that spread, and enougli remained over to give 
 a feast to hundreds of poor families — for this was the dis- 
 position of the food remnants. Newspaper visitors were 
 liandsomcly entertained in the Times building, which 
 also afforded one of the best points of observation for the 
 passing procession. To me, the great sight of all was 
 tliC crowd. I doubt if more "outsiders" were ever 
 assembled in this city. It was just a jam. Yet all was 
 quiet and orderly, no drunkenness nor inipro])er behavior, 
 and the police had very little to do but to look on and 
 enjoy themselves. Every man in the whole vast throng 
 was his own special policeman to-day. It was a gala day 
 indeed; and, with all the rest, it may be called the 
 informal dedication of tlie new and beautiful .State Cap- 
 itol, for there will be no other, and can be no more fitting 
 ceremony. X. 
 
 [CoiTC'spondencc Sprin;,'fielcl Republican.] 
 
 It has ])ccii a great day for Hartford, a great day for 
 Connecticut, a great day for the flag — yes, more, a great 
 day for the nation. Since the war ended there has been 
 no more significant demonstration than that of to-day, 
 which has brought under their tattered, war-worn banners 
 over eight thousand soldiers of the Connecticut regiments, 
 and a thousand more veterans from aljroad, and has drawn 
 hither seventy thousand strangers to witness the cere- 
 monial and festal affair. 
 
244 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 [Providence Journal.] 
 
 Yesterday some pieces of silk and worsted stuff, old, 
 dirty, soiled by the rain, blackened by smoke, were trans- 
 ferred in the city of Hartford, Conn., from one place of 
 deposit to another. What a commonplace operation. It 
 would have taken more force of transportation to have 
 moved two bales of cotton. One hundred thousand per- 
 sons witnessed the ceremony. Ten thousand Connecticut 
 soldiers participated in the proceeding. Those tattered 
 shreds of cloth were the battle-flags of the Connecticut 
 regiments that fought to preserve the Union. They are 
 no longer wool and silk; they are the emblems of self- 
 sacrifice, of devotion to country ; the mementoes of deaths 
 incurred through patriotism, of a spirit which incited to 
 and which volunteered in aid of liberty and the national 
 existence. The ten thousand veterans who bore in peace- 
 ful procession these glory-spangled banners had protected 
 them in the fiercest fight, had borne them home in tri- 
 umph — not rejoicing in victory as over their fellow-citizens, 
 but in the fond belief that they had subdued secession, 
 rebellion, the animosity of the slave-holder to the theory 
 of equal rights. The hundred thousand who looked on 
 and applauded renewed their vows to maintain good gov- 
 ernment, remembered what the preservation of the Union 
 had cost, determined that the apparent should be a real 
 success for them and all the people in all the States in tlie 
 matter of an honest and genuine citizenship. 
 
BATTLE-FLAG DAY ECHOES. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 CHARLEY. . 
 Tliere in the corner is his piece, 
 
 I picked the place with care. 
 The boy would shout, you may believe, 
 
 If he could see it there. 
 That time he slipped it in my hand 
 
 ril e'er remember well — 
 It seemed the meanest day of all, 
 
 Down in that southern hell. 
 
 We had been prisoners a year, 
 
 And spring once more had come. 
 Each day with hungry mouths and hearts 
 
 We grew more fierce for home, 
 Till, one night, Charley slipped away — 
 
 The guard was drunk, you see. 
 And Charley said he could not stay. 
 
 He would be dead or free. 
 
 They brought him back, a bullet through 
 
 His shoulder, and his breast 
 Torn by a bloodhound's ugly teeth, 
 
 And — never mind the rest — 
 But this: his courage quite was gone, 
 
 And he broke down at last ; 
 It needed but a look at him 
 
 To know that hope was past. 
 
246 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Still Charley never spoke a word 
 
 Until his hour had come, 
 Then softly slijjped it in my hand 
 
 And said, " You take it home, 
 I'm getting free ! " He turned aside, 
 
 While quick I hid the shred, 
 And when I looked at him again 
 
 The brave young boy was dead. 
 
 He'd kept it from when, under fire, 
 
 We tore our flag to save 
 It from the rebs. They might take us — 
 
 Our flag thgy should not have. 
 We tore it in a hundred shreds — 
 
 Without a word "twas done ; 
 Each hid a fragment in his breast, 
 
 A color-guard of one. 
 
 Each bore it through starvation days, 
 
 And proudly did his part ; 
 How should we, with our country's flag 
 
 Pressed close upon our heart ? 
 And now the flag's come home again. 
 
 And Charley's piece is here ; 
 If he could only see it now, 
 
 O boys, how he would cheer ! * 
 
 Nathan Mater. 
 
 THE COLOR-BEARER. 
 
 Loud and fiercely waged the battle, 
 Death performed liis mission well. 
 
 While a little band of heroes 
 
 Bravely fought through shot and shell. 
 
 *The shreds of the Sixteenth Connecticut flag, preserved from capture by the men, 
 were collected, pieced together, and returned to the State on Battle-Fag day 
 
BATTLE-FLAa DAY. ECHOES. 247 
 
 Score by score lay dead aud dying, 
 
 Closer pressed the rebel host; 
 What were these against the thousands? 
 
 Ah ! tliey knew the day was lost. 
 
 One among that band heroic, 
 
 Slight of form but brave of heart, 
 Proudly waved the colors o'er him, 
 
 Manfully fulfilled his part. 
 
 But a speeding ball, death-laden. 
 
 Found its way to where he stood ; 
 And the flag, revered and honored, 
 
 Trailed its length in patriot blood. 
 
 From the staff he quickly tore it. 
 
 Stars on stripes he tightly pressed, 
 And within his coat he hid it, 
 
 Close upon his wounded breast. 
 
 Not a moan revealed the anguish 
 
 Which in his frail form was rife, 
 For to save the flag from capture 
 
 He could yield his all — his life ! 
 
 Little truth divined the surgeon 
 
 From the smile our hero wore : — 
 "Leave me for awhile," he whispered; 
 
 " Others need your service more." 
 
 From the west the fleeing sunbeams 
 
 Shot back glances, golden red, 
 To the color-bearer, praying: — 
 
 " Father, take me soon ! " he said. 
 
 And the life-blood, ebbing slowly, 
 
 Dyed the flag with colors new. 
 Stained the stripes a deeper crimson, 
 
 Changed to purple all the blue. 
 
243 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Silently the wind of evening 
 ' Swept across the white, still face ; 
 
 Naught the color-bearer heeded; — 
 Pain to peace had given place. 
 
 On the morning when his secret 
 
 To his foemen stood revealed, 
 His achievement in its glory 
 
 To their inmost hearts appealed. 
 
 " Be he honored," spake the chaplain, 
 " Who>his sacred trust has kept!" 
 While down brown and rigid faces 
 Slowly, softly, tear-drops crept. 
 
 Not a hand disturbed the colors. 
 
 As they laid him to his rest, 
 But they left him as they found liim. 
 With the flag upon his breast. 
 Hartford, Ct., Sept. 18, 1879. m. c. d. 
 
 OUR DEAR OLD BATTLE-FLAGS. 
 (Air — America.) 
 Our dear old battle-flags, 
 Our grand old battle-flags ; 
 
 All hail to-day ! 
 We love thy stripes and stars. 
 Dimmed by the smoke of wars. 
 In Freedom's glorious cause ; 
 All liail to-day ! 
 
 Our dear old battle-flags. 
 The grand old battle-flags 
 
 We proudly bore ! 
 We heed, O loyal State, 
 Thy heraldic mandate 
 To bear our trophied freight 
 
 In arms one more ! 
 
BATTLE-FLAG DAY ECHOES. 249 
 
 Our dear ok1 battle-flags, 
 Our lionor'd battle flags, 
 
 Unfurl to-day ! 
 Thy tattered ensigns wave 
 A welcome to the brave, 
 Who fought, our land to save 
 
 From slavery ! 
 
 Our dear old battle-flags. 
 Our hallow'd battle-flags ; 
 
 An army grand 
 Of brave, heroic men 
 Were 'neath thy banners slain, 
 Theirs an undying fame — 
 
 Our martyr'd band ! 
 
 Our dear old battle-flags, 
 Our sacred battle-flags. 
 
 Farewell to-day ! 
 Thy precious folds we bear 
 Within these arches fair. 
 And to their guardian care 
 Leave thee for aye ! 
 September 17, 1879. L. J. r. c. 
 
 SONG OF THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 
 
 Ended our days of strife, 
 Yet, at the sound of fife. 
 All thro' our folds new life 
 
 Starts up afresh. 
 Hear we the battle's roar, 
 See we the bullets pour; 
 We're on the field once more, 
 
 Leading our men. 
 
250 
 
 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 We were the first to hear, 
 "When the reveille drear 
 Broke on the startled ear, 
 
 Over the camp. 
 Then at the front we stood, 
 And every soldier would 
 Spill his last drop of blood, 
 
 To hold us there. 
 
 We heard the soldier pray : 
 "Speed Thou the right, this day," 
 As to the deadly fray 
 
 Fearless he went. 
 We saw the loving tear 
 Shed for a comrade dear 
 As on his grassy bier 
 
 A hero lay. 
 
 Tho' dim our once bright bars. 
 
 All rent, with stains and scars, 
 
 Tho' pale our silver stars — 
 Honor us still. 
 
 So let our memory stay, 
 
 As now at rest are they — 
 
 Mingled the blue and gray- 
 Peace over all. 
 
 Albekt H. Ha-udy. 
 
A LESSON FROM THE BATTLE FLAGS. 
 
 CHAPTER XIL 
 
 ON THE VALUE IN PATRIOTISM, MORALS, AND RELIG- 
 ION OF WHAT APPEALS TO SENTIMENT. 
 
 The Substance of a Discourse Given Before the Unitarian 
 Society, Sept. 21, 1879, by the Rev. John C. Kimball. 
 
 To what purpose is this waste ''.—Matt, xxvi, S. 
 
 Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proccedeth out of the 
 mouth of Gtod.—Matt. iv, 4. 
 
 THE great event of the past week in our city, as you 
 well know, has been the parade and display connected 
 with the transfer of the Connecticut battle-flags from the 
 Arsenal, where they had found temporary lodgment, to 
 their resting-place in the new State Capitol. The affair 
 has excited the intensest enthusiam, not only among our 
 own citizens, but throughout the length and breadth of 
 the State; has been participated in, it is estimated, by not 
 less than 150,000 people. The veterans of the old war 
 regiments who led, carried, and followed these tattered 
 banners on many a bloody field have rallied around them 
 again with a renewal of that same love and devotion so 
 grandly felt and shown by them in the days when the 
 question of their very existence was to be decided. Trium- 
 phal arches have spanned our streets ; the red, white, 
 and blue waved once more as it did in the thrilling days 
 
252 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 of '61 from every roof and window ; all the resources of 
 taste and art have hcen taxed to fill the city with the marvels 
 of decoration by day and the splendors of illumination by 
 night ; and amid the inspiring strains of martial music, 
 the cheers and hurrahs of the long lines of people, the 
 thunder of cannon and the glowing words of eloquence, 
 these sacred relics of the war, fluttering again in the soft 
 September breeze as they did of old in the hot breath of 
 battle, have been carried fondly in a grand procession by 
 the remnants of the gallant regiments that fought beneath 
 their folds to what henceforth will be not only the work- 
 shop of the State's legislation, but the shrine of some of 
 its noblest memories. 
 
 What, now, has been the use of all this parade and 
 display, costing, when the decorations, the railroad fares, 
 the suspense of business, and the loss of time to so many 
 people are all reckoned up, not less, certainly, than half a 
 million of dollars ? The thing itself which had to be done, 
 wlien you get at the core of it, — the removal of tlie flags 
 hardly more than a mile, — was very simple, Avhat any 
 expressman in the city most likely would have undertaken 
 and performed for half a dollar, and been glad of the job ; 
 and the flags themselves that were the objects of so much 
 enthusiam, they were all ragged and powder-stained, 
 things which put in with other rags and sold at their real 
 market value would hardly bring the price of one of tlie 
 gay streamers that waved above them in honor. Why, 
 then, would it not have been well to have made the trans- 
 fer in the cheapest business way, and saved the community 
 all this enormous expense ? How many and how impor- 
 tant are the other objects for which the money might have 
 been used ! There are thousands of these very soldiers 
 honored with a costly parade whose families next winter 
 
SERMONS. 253 
 
 will be pinched with cold and suffering for bread ; thou- 
 sands of living- souls made in God's image that are cooped 
 in squalid homes and cramped with, poverty, disease, and 
 sin, while we house and honor these ragged, lifeless ban- 
 uers ; thousands of children in our great city and all over 
 the State growing up in ignorance and neglect, that the 
 cost of AVcdnesday's decorations Avould have provided 
 amply with comfort and care. And would it not, it 
 IS naturally asked, have been more Christian, more human, 
 more worthy of an enlightened community, to have used 
 the money for these objects rather than to have spent it 
 on all this fuss and parade, lasting only a few hours, and 
 then for ever passing away ! 
 
 It is a question— the same one that was asked of old 
 when the precious ointment was poured on the head of 
 Jesus Christ— which brings up the subject I want to dis- 
 cuss this morning, the value in human life of beauty, 
 ])arade, display, all those things which in nature, society,' 
 the country, the home, and the church are addressed to 
 sentiment rather than to direct, practical uses; and the 
 answer to it is well given in the second of the two pas- 
 sages I have taken for my text, Man shall not live by bread 
 alone, but by every word, or, as it means, every gift, 
 which procecdeth out of the mouth of God. 
 
 Look at its application to this especial case. What 
 does the strength of a nation consist in— that strength by 
 which it lives alike through danger and through safety ? 
 Not in its wheat and corn and cotton merely ; not in its 
 well-fed and wcll-ck)thed men and women alone— many a 
 nation has had all these in abundance, and yet gone down 
 in the first hour of danger-^but in its ideas, its sentiments, 
 its principles, its enthusiasms, in the number of its men 
 and women whose souls are clothed and fed with that 
 
254 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 spirit of love and self-sacrifice which makes them ready 
 to die for its honor and safety rather than to live with its 
 shame and subjugation. Wiiat was the strength and 
 salvation of the North in our great civil war, what tlie 
 things by which we are living to-day ? The ample stores 
 of bread and meat and the superior arms and ammunition 
 with which its soldiers were supplied were one element 
 not to be despised ; but its patriotism, its enthusiasm for 
 the old flag, tlie inspiration of its religion, its buhvark of 
 moral principle, and its love of liberty — these were tlie 
 things beyond all arms and commissary stores that won 
 the North its glorious day. And if we want such quah- 
 ties when th.c liour of trouble sliall come again, we must 
 nourish them not witli money and bread and meat, or even 
 with trutli alone, but with parade and speech and song, 
 with the outflowing of grateful liearts, with just such a 
 recognition and honoring of them as they had last week. 
 
 The display of that occasion was the precious ointment 
 poured out on the saviours of the nation as the contents of 
 the alabaster box were on Christ of old. And what a 
 lesson it was to the young and rising generation! It 
 showed them that the men who fought and died for 
 country were not to be forgotten; stirred their young 
 blood with ambitions such as no material food could ever 
 put into it; did more perhaps to make them devoted 
 patriots and worthy citizens, more to make them the 
 nation's strength for the wars to come, than all the teach- 
 ings of all our schools could have done for a whole year. 
 Subtle, wonderful, unseen, coming from the soil beneath 
 our feet, from the light of far-off skies, from grand tradi- 
 tions down the pathway of the ages, from the broad realms 
 of poetry, sentiment, imagination, and from the infinite 
 unknown of the spirit world, — from a thousand sources 
 
SERMONS. 255 
 
 catalogued in no church or school, are the threads of 
 influence in the mighty factory of God that are woven 
 into the web of a nation's character; and woe to the peo- 
 ple and woe to the rulers who would brush aside as of no 
 value even tliose among them which are tlie subtlest and 
 most unseen, I heard of a young German wlio, comiug 
 from the rigid and despotic governmcuts of the old world, 
 where everything is under the strictest surveillance, and 
 seeing the political excitements and divisions of our peo- 
 ple these last few years indulged in without a check, had 
 been fdled with despair as to the value and permanency 
 of our free institutions; but last "Wednesday night lie 
 exclaimed, "I doubt no longer; there can be no fear but 
 tliat a people who can unite all parties in such a celebra- 
 tion over their country's heroes and banners love it too 
 well ever to let it die." If we had had more such celebra- 
 tions in the years gone by, both at the north and the south, 
 more of those Fourth of July enthusiasms whose crackers, 
 outbursts of noise, and spread-eagle oratory have been of 
 late too much despised, it is possible we never should have 
 had any civil war; and even as a matter of the lowest 
 economy, who shall say it is not better to spend a few 
 thousand dollars now and then in music, speech, and 
 decoration to save the country beforehand, than to spend 
 as many millions, with countless human lives, and the 
 nation's industry paralyzed for years, to save it when the 
 crisis comes? 
 
 Those old and tattered flags may indeed be of little 
 value in the markets of industry, but they have a worth in 
 the great loom of sentiment, to be wrought over and over 
 again into the robes of patriotism and citizenship, which is 
 beyond all that any figures can express. The outward 
 eye sees only a bundle of rags, bullet marked and black- 
 
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256 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 ened, hano;ing from the staff, but to the inner vision what 
 halos of glory ; what splendors of sacrifice and devotion ; 
 what lustre of noble victories, aye, sometimes of even 
 nobler defeats ; what memories of the mustering squadron, 
 the dashing charge, the hot encounter, the smoke and roar 
 and blaze of cannon, the dead and dying comrades ; alas, 
 and to many of those who looked from the crowd that 
 day, — wives, mothers, sisters, and children, — what memo- 
 ries of dear ones going forth eighteen years ago from 
 their hearts and homes, so full of life and strength, were 
 gathered around their tattered folds ! I saw an old 
 woman on the sidewalk in a faded shawl, with a wrinkled 
 face and a bowed form, the tears flowing from her eyes, 
 looking on one of the raggedest of them all. "My boy 
 died fighting under that," she said, pointing to it with a 
 glow of love and pride that made her very wrinkles beau- 
 tiful ; "my only boy ; and it reminds me of him, oh, so 
 vividly, to see it again !" The old woman was evidently 
 very poor, but I do not think all the food and clothing, or 
 wealth, the country could lavish upon her would have been 
 worth to her heart half so much at that moment as the 
 memory twined there of that soldier boy. It is such 
 things as these which make those banners what they are, 
 parts of them, which not all the express wagons in the 
 world, nothing but the people's throbbing hearts in a cele- 
 bration like that of last Wednesday, could carry from place 
 to place ; and when, under the white walls of the Capitol, 
 in the light of declining day, responsive once more to the 
 roar of cannon, and the rattle of drums, they nodded so 
 like living things their parting salute to the gathered 
 thousands who filled the Park, I do not believe there was 
 a person there who did not through the influence of 
 those old flags go away a firmer patriot and a better 
 citizen. 
 
SERMONS. 257 
 
 IN NATURE. 
 
 It is an element, this same one of beauty, parade, 
 and display, which runs all through the natural world, 
 and which there, evidently, is of Divine origin, a word 
 indeed proceeding directly from the mouth of God, and 
 having therefore a Divine sanction. Nothing can he 
 more economical and more devoted to utility than Nature 
 is in a large part of her operations ; and yet, when occa- 
 sion demands it, how lavish she is in getting up those 
 things which outside of all material uses appeal directly to 
 sentiment and taste. When the thunder has roared, the 
 lightning flashed, the winds blown their bugles, the cloud 
 squadrons wheeled and charged, the rain rattled down its 
 volleys, and the war of the elements is over and peace 
 again been conquered, how gloriously her rainbow colors 
 are flung out across the rejoicing heavens ! When the sun 
 has done its labors of the day and goes marching down 
 the evening skies to his home in the west, what a parade 
 there often is of clouds and cloud creations to give him 
 welcome ! What streamers of yellow, crimson, red, and 
 gold ! What a lighting up of his whole pathway with 
 splendors that make all earthly illuminations faint and 
 cold ! When spring comes on and Earth is to be inspired 
 to do her very best in providing for her children, it is not 
 a mere question of how much bread, meat, and clothing 
 can be made out of her forces, but with these a question 
 of how much beauty. The long processions of the flowers 
 in their brilliant uniforms arc marched, regiment after 
 regiment, across her meadows ; the old veterans of the 
 orchard and the forest fling forth and wave their banners 
 of blossom and bloom on the sliining air ; and from hill to 
 hill, along every winding river, and crowding close up to 
 the dusty highways of travel, what garlands of beauty are 
 
258 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 hung forth hy her artist hand ! Why is it all done ? It 
 is because Nature recognizes that man has wants which 
 lier bread and meat cannot supply and which she is trying 
 to reach with these other and finer things. 
 
 God might have made the earth bring forth 
 
 Enough for great and small — 
 The oak tree and the cedar tree 
 
 And not a flower at all ! 
 
 Our outward life requires them not- 
 Then wherefore have they birth ? 
 
 To minister delight to man 
 And beautify the earth. 
 
 And among all the wonders of the material universe, all 
 its multiplied evidences of design and stamps of a Crea- 
 tor's hand, there is nothing, it seems to me, which is of so 
 much religious significance, nothing which is so truly a 
 recognition of man's higher nature, as this element of 
 beauty, grandeur, and display superadded to that of utility 
 and furnished sometimes at its expense — an element that 
 was meant as plainly for sentiment and the soul as food 
 and clothing are for the body. 
 
 IN SOCIETY, 
 
 It is an agency which is recognized and has its value in 
 the affections and the social life. When a friend dies, the 
 flowers placed so tenderly on his coffin, the solemn funeral 
 procession bearing his body to the grave, and the careful 
 and formal rites with which its dust is committed to kin- 
 dred dust, are confessedly of no material use. The body 
 is as lifeless, perhaps as blackened and torn, as the old 
 banners are that were carried the other day along our 
 streets; and the question might as well be asked about 
 that, as about them. Why not send it by an express wagon 
 
SERMONS. 259 
 
 to the tomb for half a dollar, and use the rest of the cost 
 of burial to feed and clothe those who are still living? 
 The answer is, that the parade and display of a funeral 
 not only are expressions of the love that was felt for the 
 dead, but things which in return feed all other love, make 
 the heart itself, the very fountain of love, richer and 
 larger, more anxious and more capable of doing for those 
 that live — this and not the physical means being in most 
 cases what is needed. 
 
 So with the building of monuments and tombs, and the 
 laying out and decoration of our cemeteries. They cannot 
 add one particle to the happiness or comfort of the bodies 
 that sleep below ; but there is nothing in modern times, 
 hardly one teaching of religion, which has done so much 
 to take away the horrors of death, soften and console the 
 sorrows of bereavement, and perhaps enrich and intensify 
 our faith in immortality itself, as this habit of making- 
 gardens out of graves. 
 
 When we sit down to a table which is adorned with 
 flowers, and where all the dishes are arranged with ele- 
 gance and taste, who does not feel that it is not the body 
 alone and its appetites, but the soul, too, which is nourished 
 and fed? Or when we dwell in a house where something 
 has been built for honest show as well as for honest sub- 
 stance, who does not feel it is a gain not only to the pleas- 
 ure of the senses but to the deeper spiritual life? 
 
 So with dress, fashion, etiquette — all that large thread of 
 parade and display which runs everywhere into our social 
 life. In all ages these things have been the objects of 
 ridicule and denunciation on the part of the preacher and 
 the moralist, and doubtless there is an immense amount of 
 folly connected with them. But the root of them is sound 
 and healthy, and planted in our very nature, a word 
 
260 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 directly from the mouth of God. Society and humanity, 
 age after age, have grown upon them, grown, too, in some 
 of the finest tissues of character, just as truly as they 
 have on bread and meat; and to take them away would be 
 not only to make life naked and barren, but to take away 
 a part of its very sustenance. 
 
 And if this element of beauty, display, and parade is 
 found in nature, and is of so much help in nourishing the 
 sentiments of patriotism, love, and social life, why may it 
 not have its place in religion, and be of value in the culti- 
 vation of the moral and spiritual emotions ? I suppose 
 there is no objection urged now against Christianity 
 oftener than its costly churches, its tattered and time- 
 worn traditions, its elaborate rites, forms, and ceremonies, 
 its scholarly sermons, and its artistic music, indeed its 
 whole system of public worship. Why, it is asked, should 
 not this costly religious ointment be sold and its proceeds 
 given to the poor ? Why not its plain and simple truths 
 be put in some ecclesias^cal express wagon and rattled 
 along cheaply to the heathen and to the people where they 
 are needed ? What not a man be righteous by obeying 
 directly the laws of right and without all this fuss and 
 parade of churches, praise and prayer ? 
 
 When the rites, forms, ceremonies, and traditions take 
 the place of religion itself and are emphasized more than 
 its own eternal essence, or when they have been repeated 
 over and over till they have lost all freshness and all 
 heart, and become mere formalities, the objection is a 
 sound one, and their use is as foolish then as it would 
 be in the interests of patriotism to repeat the services 
 and expenses of last Wednesday over and over every 
 week when the enthusiasm for them had all died out, 
 or, worse still, when they had been made to take the 
 
SERMONS. 261 
 
 })laco of the actual service of country. But the objec- 
 tion, surely, has no force against the idea of beauty, 
 ])aradc, and ceremony as an element to be used in and 
 for religion. It is not enough — all experience shows it 
 is not enough — to preach the plain and simple truths 
 of Christianity with nothing else. Man cannot live his 
 icligious life by bread alone, even the bread of heaven, 
 any more than he can his patriotic, his domestic, or his 
 social life. The Puritans tried sending the world to 
 heaven on the plain and cheap express wagon principle, 
 and what sort of a world and of a heaven they made of it ! 
 What the rolling drum, the martial airs, the tattered ban- 
 ners, the tasteful detiorations, the long procession, the 
 cheering crowds, and the eloquent speeches of last 
 Wednesday were to patriotism, the pealing organ, the 
 resoundiug hymn, the symbols of the dove and cross, the 
 uplifted prayer, the Lord's Supper, the rite of baptism, and 
 the tattered and time-worn Bible are to religion. They 
 do not in either case constitute the thing itself — and that 
 man is very foolish who allows himself to think they do — 
 but tliey help powerfully in keeping alive and nourishing 
 its sentiment ; and the philosophy that would abolish 
 tliem altogether, or make the world and the soul moral 
 and pious without their use, is of the same order as the 
 philosophy which would have a country without an eagle 
 and a flag, and a patriotism without a 4tli of July and a 
 17th of September. 
 
 Let us, then, in the spirit of a large and liberal faith rec- 
 ognize the value of this element of beauty, parade, show, 
 and ceremony everywhere in human life, and not least by 
 any means in the spliere of religion, recognize that many 
 of its manifestations in otlier churches the same as in 
 other lands may have a meaning for our brothers even 
 
262 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 where they have none for us. The lesson of last 
 Wednesday, while against all dead formalism, is in- 
 tensely on the side of public worship, of organization, 
 of embodiment, of music, of orderly service, of everything 
 fresh and bright, aye, old and tattered, too, if there is only 
 heart in it, wliich appeals to sentiment and taste — is on 
 the side especially of those things which concentrate, en- 
 twine, and hand down the deeds, the lives, and the glories 
 of ihe past. Words sometimes have other values besides 
 what they hold of truth, values for the heart if not for the 
 mind. The teachings of the Gospel — the Lord's Prayer, 
 the Parables, and the Sermon on the Mount — may indeed 
 be old, threadbare, and of but little esteem in the markets 
 of science and philosophy, aye, in even those of the- 
 ology ; but they liave come down through the battle- 
 fields of eighteen centuries — some of them larger, 
 fiercer, and more full of gallantry and courage tlian 
 any over which the torn and blood-stained banners of 
 the soldier ever waved. Millions of our brothers and 
 fathers in the faith have lived and died in their 
 defence, twining around them, how closely, their shin- 
 ing virtues and their saintly names. Some of tlie 
 noblest deeds in all history have been done under their 
 guidance and inspiration. What they have lost in the 
 beauty and freshness of their outward form as state- 
 ments of truth they have gained a thousand fold in the 
 unseen grandeur of their memories and associations. 
 Believer as I am in an ever open revelation and in the new 
 light out of heaven, which now as never before is flooding 
 the world, not the less honored and dear are these old 
 primal truths. The reading of them in their saintly garb 
 thrills and inspires the soul beyond all that the grandest 
 discoveries of philosophy and science, wonderful and pre- 
 
SERMONS. 263 
 
 cious as tliey are, liave tlie power to do. And as our 
 veteran soldiers and the warm throbbing hearts of a grate- 
 ful people gathered last Wednesday around the rent and 
 riddled banners of the war to bear them tenderly and tri- 
 umphantly from the Arsenal to the Capitol, lining the way 
 with a thousand mottoes and adorimients briglit and new, 
 and filling the air with clicers and music, yet making 
 these old flags the center, the inspiration, and the occa- 
 sion of the whole display, so be it ours, while rejoicing in 
 all the beauty and wonder of the new environment that 
 our age can bring around its religion — ours to remember 
 that these old battle-worn truths of the ages, with the 
 Bible that holds them, are the central things to be hon- 
 ored and cherished, the things out of which to get, if not 
 our arms, yet our inspiration for the battles of to-day, and 
 as we march in life's long procession, keeping step ever to 
 the world's progress, ours to bear them, love-enshrined, 
 from the homes of earth, out of which we took them, on 
 to the peace and repose, our journey's end, of the great 
 Eternal Capitol. 
 
 THE BATTLE-FLAGS. 
 
 A Sermon by the Rev. W. Jamison Thomson, of Hartford. 
 
 " In the name of our God we will set up our banners."— Psa^ws, xx, 5. 
 
 What is a flag or banner but a piece of silk ? Wliy 
 should it receive particular honor ? But the most insig- 
 nificant of things may become important from circum- 
 stances. So trifling an article as a small piece of iron or 
 of brass may be the key to a great treasure-house, and a 
 flag may have associations connected with it that make it 
 the kev to a nation's heart. 
 
264 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Our liistoiy as a nation is interwoven with that of our 
 flag. In every battle of it a flag has been prominent, and 
 has concentrated in itself the romance of the occasion. 
 
 Lieutenant John Paul Jones, in 177(3, had the honor of 
 hoisting our national ensign when for tlie first time it was 
 displayed from a man-of-war; and in 1779, in the Bon 
 llomme Richard, nailed his flag to the mast and captured 
 King George's powerful ship of war, tlie Serapis, as the 
 first American naval victory in what has been styled " the 
 most obstinate and bloody battle in the annals of naval 
 warfare." 
 
 The story of the flag at Fort Sumter is an eventful one. 
 At the surrender, its staff lay marked by four camion shot, 
 but Major Anderson marched out with colors flying, 
 saluting his flag with fifty guns. 
 
 No wonder that the flag is full of meaning, and an 
 object of interest the most powerful. 
 
 It represents the cause, is the rallying point, while it 
 remains aloft proclaims that victory is still intended, is 
 tlie center of all eyes, is the means of communication 
 between soldiers, officers, and nation, and after the engage- 
 ment, and after many of them, is their marked memento 
 so long as its identity can be preserved. 
 
 All this was true of the battle-flags which the veterans 
 of Connecticut transferred on the 17th of September from 
 the Arsenal at Hartford to the Capitol of the State. 
 
 Tattered and torn, hanging in shreds or looped to their 
 staves, begrimed with dust, powder, and blood, and riddled 
 with balls, the tangible evidence of scores of battles, and 
 each one having a romantic history in part common to the 
 rest, and in part entirely its own, surrounded with associ- 
 ations the most thrilling, pathetic, tragic, and joyous, no 
 wonder that they were cheered, no wonder that the vet- 
 
SERMONS. 265 
 
 erans as they saw each group of banners for the first time 
 after many years — as they beheld these old companions of 
 their toil and danger still carrying the visible marks of 
 those eventful times — no wonder that they should have 
 been stirred to the very soul, and that they should have 
 given utterance to their enthusiasm. 
 
 Christianity has also her battle flags. She has, and 
 ever has had outward symbols of her most cherished 
 sentiments and past occurrences. She has her sacred 
 times, places, and things, her Bible, her rite of baptism, 
 communion table, and her cross of Christ. 
 
 The subject we have, namely, " Battle-Flag Day," is not 
 necessarily a secular one. Even during the recent cele- 
 bration of such an occasion at Hartford, religious thought, 
 feelings, and expressions intermingled. A transparency 
 lettered " Glory to God in the Highest" but expressed 
 the sentiment of many hearts ; and General Hawlcy spoke 
 not for himself alone when he said : 
 
 " Thanks be to God — exultant thanks to the Almighty 
 Father, that we lived in those days, and were permitted 
 to do something toward seeing that the government of, hy, 
 and /or the people shall not perish from the earth." 
 
 The church-bells rang, and the souls of many were 
 religiously joyful. 
 
 But more than this, the day was an illustration of 
 higher things. Life is a battle, and, being so, has neces- 
 sarily all the accompaniments, and there is to be a day 
 like this upon a far grander scale in the Christian vet- 
 erans' reunion of another world. When those wlio have 
 fought a good fight, finished their course, and kept the 
 faith re-assemble to receive the crown of righteousness 
 that is laid up for them, it will be a grand Battle-Flag day, 
 and we proceed to trace the parallel. 
 
266 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 There will be a grand meeting of old comrades, and a 
 great talking over of old times. 
 
 At Hartford hundreds thus meet after a separation of 
 many years. 
 
 They met as individuals. We saw them grasp each 
 other's hands, and hold to them for minutes while they 
 spoke of the old camp and battle-scenes. 
 
 They met as regiments. We saw them as they coun- 
 termarched, as the procession doubled upon itself and 
 each portion passed every other portion. We saw the 
 waving hats, and heard the cheers, especially as some 
 battle-scarred regiment or veteran general approached. 
 
 For such there was an ovation clear down the line, and 
 thus it will be in heaven. 
 
 There, comrades will meet and talk of the severe old 
 times ; there, they will greet each coming band and sing, 
 " Glory to God in the Plighest." 
 
 Upon that day in Hartford there was a great sociability, 
 not only among the soldiers, but it extended to the citizens. 
 
 People did not wait for an introduction in order to 
 speak with each other. 
 
 The children and ladies waved to the soldiers, and the 
 soldiers back again. Subjects of conversation were not 
 wanting, and all felt bound together by a common sym- 
 pathy. 
 
 The guests of the city, including participants and spec- 
 tators, were over sixty thousand, and they were welcome. 
 
 What a lack of sociability do w^e often find in life! 
 
 How cold and formal people are, and how little in- 
 terested in each other's welfare! How hard it is to find 
 a good companion, one who will converse and be conversed 
 with, who will neither monopolize the conversation nor 
 remain silent, who will sympathizingly hear your story 
 and modestly tell his own. 
 
SERMONS. 267 
 
 But ill heaven tlierc will be much of this. There sliglits 
 and rebuffs will be thinos of the past. 
 
 The remeuibrauce of those common sorrows through 
 which we shall have passed, the knowledge that all toil and 
 labor have given place to rest, and the love for our mutual 
 Saviour, together Avith the unnumbered wonders of that 
 better land, will open men's mouths, unloose their tongues 
 and their heart strings, and there will be sociability. 
 
 At Hartford those who had endured the most during 
 the war were most highly honored. The disabled were 
 made to ride while others walked. Upon those who had 
 been wounded was conferred the greatest of all the honors, 
 namely, the color-bearing. 
 
 They were they who bore aloft the glorious ragged 
 emblems of their country's combat and victory. 
 
 So of the Christian soldiers who were stoned, tempted, 
 slain with the sword, wandered about in sheep-skins and 
 goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented. All these 
 have obtained a good report through faith, and their 
 wounds will be glorified in the world to come. 
 
 The enthusiasm and joy of Battle-Flag Day was of the 
 genuine variety. There was no occasion for a mechanical 
 attempt at manifestations. All hearts, even the most 
 stoical and indifferent, felt at least a touch of military 
 ardor and patriotism. 
 
 All the circumstances were so abundantly and strikingly 
 romantic that a cold and mathematical view was impos- 
 sible. 
 
 Who could behold eight thousand genuine old soldiers, 
 who had seen not a skirmish or two, but scores of severe 
 battles — here were men who had participated at Atlanta, 
 Antietam, Auburn, Bull Run, Bermuda Hundred, Cliancel- 
 orsville, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Port Hudson, Peters- 
 
268 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 biirji;, and ciglity-five more, which limits of space forbid to 
 mention — these were no mere militia men, but soldiers 
 and veterans in the severest sense — who could behold 
 8,000 of such men marching by with warlike accompani- 
 ments, and feel no heart-tingling? 
 
 It was good to be there, to have the frozen ice bands of 
 a cold life shattered, to have the weary soil of a tired soul 
 vitalized, and to feel the spring of real and unaccustomed 
 emotion. 
 
 Such occasions tend to break the dull monotony of life, 
 to rest our weariness, and to refresh us for the hard work 
 we have to do. 
 
 Here was enjoyment. And the very skies contributed. 
 A brighter and more exhilarating atmosphei"e could not 
 have been imagined. The beautiful surroundings bathed 
 with an additional element of pleasure the scene. 
 
 Hartford is at any time a beautiful city, its site being 
 not flat but undulating, with handsome buildings in con- 
 spicuous places, and everything that wealth, public spirit, 
 and art can devise and execute for ornament. 
 
 But upon this day there were decorations special and 
 most elaborate along the whole line of the procession's 
 march. Flags, banners, arches, evergreens, statuary, and 
 living tableaux adorned the spectacle. 
 
 But it was at night that through the eyes we were most 
 delighted. 
 
 Then all that was familiar or business-like being shut 
 out of view by the darkness, a grand but subdued atmos- 
 phere of artificial light, from a blazing arch thrown across 
 the wide thoroughfare and from festoons of Chinese 
 lanterns strung from the old Capitol's dome to the ground, 
 lit up the trees, the crowded streets, the palatial buildings 
 in that vicinity, and cast an aurora toward the sky. Look- 
 
SERMONS. 269 
 
 ing from a liigli window upon this scene one was reminded 
 of tlio Arabian Nights. It was fairy lend. 
 
 Passing thence to the new Capitol, tlie beauty from light 
 was of an entirely different but no less decided cast. 
 That most delicately elaborate, pure white marble edifice 
 was illuminated in every window, while electric lights shed 
 their powerful streams through the dark atmosphere, 
 bringing into relief by turns the various groups of men 
 and tilings, and by means of colored glass of every shade 
 turning a lofty star-like fountain into a fascinating, con- 
 stantly changing rainbow. 
 
 Tlie beauties of heaven are totally beyond our utmost 
 thought — eye hath not seen, nor ear heard — yet who will 
 say tliat the most beautiful tilings and combinations on 
 the earth do not give us a nearer conception than could 
 be had without them ? 
 
 Light is especially made use of in the scriptural 
 descriptions. The city had no need of the sun, for the 
 glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light 
 thereof, and the nations sliall walk in the light of it. 
 There shall be no night there, and they need no candle, 
 neither light of the sun, for the Lord God givelh them 
 light ; and Jesus says of himself, " I am the bright and 
 morning star." 
 
 In the concluding chapters of Revelation the beauties 
 of heaven are set forth, its decorations and displays 
 described; and its precious-stone architecture, water, and 
 trees are pictured as illuminated. A religiously disposed 
 person could not but think of this while passing through 
 the streets of Hartford on the evening of the 17th of 
 September. 
 
 We perceive, then, that that future heavenly occasion 
 will possess all the characteristics in a super-eminent 
 
270 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 manner of the celebration which we have made the sub- 
 ject of our discourse, namely, the meeting of old com- 
 rades, sociability, honor to the wounded, enthusiasm, joy, 
 and beauty. 
 
 It is fair, then, to speak of that as '' a grand Battle- 
 Flag Bay," and happy are those who shall participate. 
 And how shall such participation upon our part be 
 secured ? 
 
 By fighting in this holy cause, and by the sincere utter- 
 ance of tliis text, " In the name of our God we will set 
 up our banners." 
 
 The cause in which tliese Connecticut veterans fouglit 
 and the cause of the Christian soldier are no more like 
 the cause of heathen Rome, for example, than are our 
 triumphs like those which she celebrated. 
 
 Rome fought for plunder and spread of territory, and 
 she dragged in chains her captive kings tbrough her 
 streets behind the victors' chariot wheels. 
 
 But Connecticut exulted over and insulted no fallen 
 foe, but rather rejoiced that her enemy had been rein- 
 stated. She fought for the benefit of humanity, and so 
 the Christian does. 
 
 In the name of our God we set up our banners. In the 
 name of the God of love and mercy and blessing alone 
 we go forth to war. 
 
 It is to save and to prosper our fellow creatures that 
 we arc to toil and to combat, to receive wounds and to 
 endure hardships, if we would be veterans in the grand 
 Battle-Flag Day of heaven. 
 
 This recent occasion lasted but twenty-four hours, but 
 that future one will last for ever. It will be an eternal 
 holiday, in the most liberal style, and without expense to 
 
SERMONS. 271 
 
 any one, and to have a right there it is well worth while 
 to set up now and to defend tiie true banner. 
 
 The knowledge of its coming supports our spirits, and 
 enables us to endure the riddling to which we are sub- 
 jected. 
 
 In the procession it was the most riddled flag that was 
 cheered the most enthusiastically. The colors of the Six- 
 teenth regiment carried off the highest honors. When 
 this regiment was captured at Plymouth, to preserve their 
 flag from the enemy's hands, it was torn into pieces, each 
 one of which was concealed upon the person of a soldier 
 who guarded it through his captivity and brought it home 
 with him. These pieces were collected and sewn together 
 in the form of a shield upon a new flag, which was borne 
 in the procession by the man who had carried its prede- 
 cessor through a storm of bullets on the battle-field. It 
 was gazed at, cheered, and venerated, and the popular 
 heart spoke in the couplet that appeared at one point in 
 gilt letters upon a crimson banner: 
 
 " Thro' battle smoke and prison pen 
 
 You've brought your flag, ye Sixteenth men." 
 
 The thicker, then, tliat well-faced bullets of trouble 
 may now fly, the greater the honor and the joy for us in 
 that great eternal day. 
 
 The 17th was a grand and long to be remembered 
 occasion, with but the drawback that its social and patri- 
 otic intercourse could last but a little time. Across the 
 street at one point was suspended a banner with these 
 words : 
 
 " Happy day when soldiers meet, 
 
 And happy day when they meet to part no more." 
 
 Happy indeed it was for the time, and happier far 
 16 '11^ 
 
272 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 beyond comparison will be that glorious, never-ending 
 one. 
 
 Come then, Americans, come all mankind, enlist as 
 soldiers of the cross. Let us all say, " in the name of 
 our God we will set up our banners," that we and they 
 may be honored and blessed everlastingly after the war 
 shall have been fought, and when eternal peace shall have 
 been declared. 
 
SEVENTEEN YEAES AGO, SEPT. 17, 1862. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 ANTIETAM.* 
 
 TriE contest was opened at dawn by Hooker, with 
 about eighteen thousand men. He made a vigorous 
 attack on the Confederate left, commanded by Jackson. 
 Doubleday was on his right, Meade on his left, and Rick- 
 etts in the center. His first object was to push the Con- 
 federates back through a line of woods, and seize the 
 Hagerstown road and the woods beyond it in the vicinity 
 of the Dunker Church, where Jackson's line lay. The 
 contest was obstinate and severe. The National batteries 
 on the east side of the Antietam poured an enfilading fire 
 on Jackson that galled him very much, and it was not long 
 before the Confederates were driven with heavy loss 
 beyond the first line of woods, and across an open field, 
 which was covered thickly in the morning with standing 
 corn. 
 
 Hooker now advanced his center under Meade to seize 
 the Hagerstown road and the woods beyond. They were 
 met by a murderous fire from Jackson, who had just been 
 re-enforced by Hood's refreshed troops, and had brought 
 up his reserves. These issued in great numbers from the 
 
 * Lossing's Civil War in America. 
 
276 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 woods, and fell heavily upon Meade in the cornfield. 
 Hooker called upon Doubleday for aid, and a brigade under 
 the gallant General Hartsuff was instantly forwarded at 
 the double-quick, and passed across the cornfield in the 
 face of a terrible storm of shot and shell. It fought des- 
 perately for half an hour unsupported, when its leader fell 
 severely wounded. 
 
 In the mean time Mansfield's corps had been ordered up 
 to the support of Hooker, and while the divisions of Wil- 
 liams and Greene, of that corps, were deploying, the vet- 
 eran commander was mortally wounded. The charge of 
 his corps then devolved on General Williams, who left his 
 division to the care of General Crawford. The latter, 
 with his own and Gordon's brigade, pushed across the open 
 field and seized a part of the woods on the Hagerstown 
 road. At the same time Greene's division took position to 
 the left of the Dunker Church. 
 
 Hooker had lost heavily by battle and straggling, yet he 
 was contending manfully for victory. Doubleday's guns 
 had silenced a Confederate battery on the extreme right, 
 and Ricketts was struggling against a foe constantly 
 increasing, but was bravely holding his ground without 
 power to advance. The fight was very severe, and at 
 length the National line began to waver and give way. 
 Hooker, while in the van, was so severely wounded in the 
 foot that he was taken from the field at nine o'clock, and 
 to McClellan's head-quarters at Pry's, leaving his com- 
 mand to Sumner, who had just arrived on the field with 
 his own corps. Up to this time the battle had been fought 
 much in detail, both lines advancing and falling back as 
 each received re-enforcements. 
 
 Sumner at once sent General Sedgwick to the support 
 of Crawford and Gordon, and Richardson and French 
 
ANTIETAM. 277 
 
 bore down upon the foe more to the left, when the corn- 
 field, already won and lost by both parties, was regained 
 by the Nationals, who held the ground around the Dunker 
 Cliurch. Victory seemed certain for the latter, for Jack- 
 son and Hood had commenced retiring, when fresh troops 
 under McLaws and Walker came to Jackson's support, 
 seconded by Early on their left. These pressed desperately 
 forward, penetrated the National line at a Gap between 
 Sumner's right and center, and the Unionists were driven 
 back to the first line of woods east of the ITagerstown 
 road, when the victors, heavily smitten by the National 
 artillery, and menaced by unflinching Doubleday, withdrew 
 to their original position near the church. Sedgwick, twice 
 wounded, was carried from the field, when the command 
 of his division devolved on General 0. 0. Howard. Gen- 
 erals Crawford and Dana were also wounded. 
 
 It was now about noon, and fighting had been going on 
 since dawn. The wearied right needed immediate support. 
 It came at a timely moment. Franklin had come up from 
 below, and McClcllan, who remained on the east side of 
 the Antietam, sent him over to assist the hard-pressed 
 right. He formed on Howard's left, and at once sent Slo- 
 cum with his division toward the center. At the same 
 , time General Smith was ordered to retake the ground over 
 which there had been so much contention and bloodshed. 
 Witliin fifteen minutes after the order was given it was 
 executed. The Confederates were driven from the open 
 field and beyond the Hagerstown road by gallant charges, 
 accompanied by loud cheers, first by Franklin's Third 
 Brigade, under Colonel Irwin, and then by the Seventh 
 Maine. Inspired by this success, Franklin desired to push 
 forward and seize a rough wooded position of importance; 
 but Sumner thought the movement would be too hazard- 
 ous, and he was restrained. 
 
278 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 Meanwhile the divisions of French and Richardson had 
 been busy. The former, with the brigades of Weber, 
 Kimball, and Morris (the latter raw troops), pushed on 
 toward tlie center, Weber leading ; and while he was fight- 
 ing hotly, French received orders from Sumner to press on 
 vigorously and make a diversion in favor of the right. 
 After a severe contest with the brigades of Hill (Colquitt's, 
 Ripley's, and McRae's) not engaged with Jackson, the Con- 
 federates were pressed back to a sunken road in much 
 disorder. In the meantime the division of Richardson, 
 composed of the brigades of Meagher, Caldwell, and 
 Brooks, which crossed the Antietam between nine and 
 ten o'clock, moved forward to the attack on French's 
 left. Right gallantly did Meagher fight his way up to the 
 crest of a hill overlooking the Confederates at the sunken 
 road, suffering dreadfully from a tempest of bullets ; and 
 when his ammunition was almost exhausted, Caldwell, 
 aided by a part of Brooks's brigade, as gallantly came to 
 his support and relief. 
 
 Hill was now re-enforced by about four thousand men, 
 under R. H. Anderson, and the struggle was fierce for a 
 while, the Confederates trying to seize a ridge on the 
 National left for the purpose of turning that flank. This 
 was frustrated by a quick and skillful movement by Colo- 
 nel Cross with his " Figliting Fifth" New Hampshire. 
 He and the Confederates had a race for the ridge along 
 parallel lines, fighting as they ran. Cross won it, and 
 being re-enforced by the Eighty- first Pennsylvania, the 
 Confederates were driven back, with a heavy loss in men 
 and the colors of the Fourth North Carolina. An effort 
 to flank the right at the same time was checked l)y French, 
 Brooks, and a part of Caldwell's force, and a charge of 
 the Confederates directly on Richardson's front was quickly 
 
ANTIETAM. 279 
 
 repulsecT. The National line was steadily advanced until 
 the foe was pushed back to Dr. Piper's house, near the 
 Sharpsburg road, which formed a sort of citadel for them, 
 and there they made an obstinate stand. Ricliardson's 
 artillery was" now brought up, and while that brave leader 
 was directing the fire of Captain Graham's battery, he 
 was felled by a ball that proved fatal. General W. S. 
 Hancock succeeded him in command, when a charge was 
 made that drove the Confederates from Piper's in the 
 utmost confusion, and only the skillful show of strength 
 by a few of his fresh troops prevented a fatal severance of 
 Lee's line. The Nationals were deceived, and did not 
 profit by the advantage gained. Night soon closed the 
 action on the right and center, the Unionists holding the 
 ground they' had acquired. In the struggle near the cen- 
 ter, the gallant General Meagher was wounded and carried 
 from the field, and his command devolved on Colonel 
 Burke, of the New York Sixty-third. 
 
 During the severe conflicts of the day, until late in the 
 afternoon, Porter's corps, with artillery, and Pleasanton's 
 cavalry, had remained on the east side of the Antietam as 
 a reserve, and in holding the road from Sharpsburg to 
 Middletown and Boonsborough. Then McClellan sent two 
 brigades to support the wearied right, and six battali-ons 
 of Sykes's regulars were thrown across bridge No. 2, on 
 the Sharpsburg road, to drive away the Confederate sharp- 
 shooters, who were seriously interfering with Pleasanton's 
 horse batteries there, Warren's brigade was sent more 
 to the left, on the right and rear of Burnside, who held 
 the extreme left of the National line. This brings us to 
 a notice of the operations of the day under the directions 
 of Burnside. 
 
 The left was resting on the slopes opposite bridge No. 
 S, at Rohrback's farm, a little below Sharpsburg, which 
 
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 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 was held on the morning of the 17th by the brigade of 
 Toombs (Second and Twentieth Georgia), supported by 
 sharp-shooters and batteries on Longstrect's right wing, 
 commanded by D. E,. Jones. Burn side was directed, at 
 eight o'clock in the morning, to cross that bridge, attack 
 the foe, carry the heights on the opposite bank of the 
 Antietam, and advance along their crest upon Sharpsburg. 
 It was a task of greatest difficulty, for the approaches to 
 the bridge were in the nature of a defile, exposed to a 
 
 raking fire from the Confederate batteries, and an enfila- 
 ding one from the sharp-shooters. In several attempts to 
 cross the bridge Burn side was repulsed. Finally, at about 
 one o'clock in the afternoon, the Fifty-first New York and 
 Fifty-first Pennsylvania charged across and drove its de- 
 fenders to the heights. Gathering strength at the bridge 
 by the crossing of the divisions of Sturgis, Wilcox, and 
 
ANTIETAM. £81 
 
 Rodman, and Scammon's brigade, with the batteries of 
 Durell, Clark, Cook, and Simmons, Burnside charged up 
 the hill, and drove the Confederates almost to Sharpsbiirg, 
 the Ninth New York capturing one of their batteries. 
 Just then A. P. Hill's division, which had been hastening 
 up from Harper's Ferry, came upon the ground, and under 
 a heavy fire of artillery charged upon Bnrnside's extreme 
 left, and after severe fighting, in which General Rodman 
 was mortally wounded, drove him back almost to the 
 bridge. In that charge General L. O'B. Branch, of Nortl) 
 Carolina, was killed. The pursuit was checked by the 
 National artillery on the eastern side of the stream, under 
 whose fire the reserves led by Sturgis advanced, and the 
 Confederates did not attempt to retake the bridge. Dr.rk- 
 ness closed the conflict here, as it did all along the line. 
 
 Hill came up just in time, apparently, to save Lee's 
 army from capture or destruction. Experts say that if 
 Burnside had accomplished the passage of the bridge and 
 the advance movement an hour earlier, or had Porter been 
 sent a lew hours sooner to the support of the hard-strug- 
 gling right, that result would doubtless have ensued. It 
 is easy to conjecture what might have been. We have to 
 do only with what occurred. Looking upon the event 
 from that stand-point, we see darkness ending one of the 
 most memorable days of the war because of its great and 
 apparently useless carnage, for the result was only hurtful 
 in the extreme to both parties. With the gloom of that 
 night also ended the conflict known as The Battle of 
 Antietam, in which McClcllan said (erroneously as to the 
 number of troops) " nearly two hundred thousand men 
 and five hundred pieces of artillery were for fourteen 
 hours engaged. Our soldiers slept that night," he said, 
 " conquerors on a field won by their valor, and covered by 
 the dead and wounded of the enemy." 
 
A CHAPTEE OP CONNECTICUT HISTOEY. 
 
 CHAPTER XIY. 
 
 OUR SOLDIERS AT ANTIETAM. 
 
 CROFUT & MORRIS in their " History of Connecticut 
 during tlie War," refer more particularly to the con- 
 duct of such Connecticut Regiments as partici})ated in the 
 events of this day, and as the description fully illustrates 
 the heroism displayed at all times by the gallant sons of 
 Connecticut when called upon to protect the old flag, we 
 quote therefrom. " Lieut J. H. Converse of the Eleventh 
 wrote : I can speak of time no more. The battle had begun, 
 and the day passed like a shrieking shell. The sky was filled 
 with unearthly sounds, — the howl of fiendish missiles, the 
 crash of falling trees, the horrible discharge of hundreds 
 of cannon. Along our entire front rebel batteries were 
 constantly discovered, till a long line of cannon could be 
 seen through the murky canopy, panting with deadly heat. 
 The brigade of Connecticut troops, on the extreme left, 
 was soon advanced to support a battery near the creek, and 
 came again under a sharp fire. Col. Kingsbury now re- 
 ceived orders from Gen. Burnside to march his regiment 
 to the bridge, after the batteries had shelled the woods on 
 the other side, and hold it until Gen. Rodman could march 
 his column over. Col. Kingsbury approached the bridge 
 
OUR SOLDIERS AT ANTIETAM. 285 
 
 through a narrow defile in the woods, then througli a corn- 
 field, and over a plowed field adjacent to the road. Our 
 skirmishers, advancing, were briskly engaged with the 
 enemy on the opposite side. Col. Kingsbury gave Lieut.- 
 Col. Stedn^an command of the right wing, with directions 
 to advance, and occupy a hill between the road and the 
 river, overlooking the bridge. Having accomplished this 
 under a heavy fire, the right wing immediately engaged 
 the enemy, and lost very heavily in this position— the 
 sharpshooters of the enemy taking off our men very fast, 
 while the enemy's main body was so concealed that we 
 had little to aim at. Col. Kingsbury at the same time 
 brought up the left wing, where he was exposed to the 
 most intense fire while attempting, as at that time sup- 
 posed, to take up a position very near, if not on, the bridge." 
 All the rebel batteries were now roaring. The air rang 
 with whistling balls, and the ground quaked with the hard 
 breath of artillery. The Eleventh Connecticut descended 
 to storm Antietam Bridge. The rebel guns were pouring 
 in a destructive fire of grape and canister, while continu- 
 ous volleys from an unseen enemy in the wood were also 
 showered upon them. Down the road leaped the Eleventh 
 into this " valley of death." 
 
 Companies A and B, under Capt. John Griswold, were 
 deployed as skirmishers, and they plunged into the swift 
 stream, here some fifty feet wide and four deep, their 
 dauntless commander taking the lead. He was shot 
 through the breast while in mid-river, but struggled for- 
 ward, and fell upon the opposite bank, among the rebels. 
 The left wing of the regiment was now near the bridge. 
 Many men fell. Colonel Kingsbury was a special mark, 
 and he was soon shot in the foot, and immediately after 
 in the leg, when he was at last prevailed upon to leave 
 
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 the field. While he was being carried off he received a 
 third ball in the shoulder and a fourth in tlie abdomen, 
 inflicting a mortal wound. The official report says, when 
 he fell, the regiment felt their last hope was gone : we 
 had lost the bravest of Colonels and the best of men. 
 
 On the morning of the seventeenth, tlie Fourteenth, 
 under Lieut. -Col. S. H. Perkins, had moved from its 
 uneasy bivouac farther towards the right ; at three a. m. 
 received extra ammunition, and at seven o'clock moved 
 out into the road. French's three brigades were formed 
 in column by division (Col. Dwiglit Morris's brigade in 
 the center), and, marching down a slope, forded Antietam 
 Creek, an occasional rebel shell wliizzing overhead. After 
 a march of a mile along the southwest bank, the brig- 
 ades were faced to the left, forming three lines of battle. 
 Hooker was now hotly delivering battle on the riglit. As 
 the Fourteenth swept on, over hedges and ditches, and 
 through plowed fields, the left flank, Co. B, of Middle- 
 town, became somewhat separated from tlie main body ; 
 and, in order to close the gap, Capt. Gibbons led the com- 
 pany by the right flank between the house and barn 
 known in the liistory of the fray as Roulette's. * The 
 movement was executed with such rapidity as to cut off 
 tlie escape of some forty or fifty rebels who had been 
 pouring rapid volleys into the regiment from this cover. 
 The prisoners were sent back under guard. About noon, 
 after several hours' fighting, advancing, and retreating, 
 carrying off the wounded, and cheering each otlier on, the 
 regiment, under orders, reported to Col. Brooks, of 
 Richardson's division, and was placed in support of a 
 battery. It was again raked by a terrible fire, wliile the 
 battery lost every horse and half of its men. Here Fight- 
 ing Dick Richardson received his wound, and was borne 
 
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 from the field by the men of the Fourteenth. The Four- 
 teenth remained under ahnost constant fire until it had 
 been thirty-six hours in battle, with nothing to drink, and 
 nothing to eat but a little hard-tack. Morris's brigade 
 had captured two rebel flags. 
 
 The Sixteenth had moved to the support of a battery 
 farther south, on the extreme left of the line, and was 
 lying in a cornfield. The rebels had quietly approached 
 in force on the uncovered left flank, and were nearer than 
 even Major Lyon had thought them. While they were 
 lying here, they were suddenly ordered to " attention ! " 
 when a terrible volley was fired into them from beliind a 
 stone wall about five rods in front of us. They were 
 ordered to fix bayonets and advance. In a moment they 
 were riddled with shot. Neither the line-officers nor the 
 men had any knowledge of regimental movements. The 
 most helpless confusion ensued. Another regiment rushed 
 panic-stricken past them to the rear, and vainly did they 
 endeavor to change front so as to face the enemy. 
 
 The rebels discovered the disorder, and came down in a 
 heavy column. The Sixteenth stood for a few minutes 
 trying to rally, swept by a destructive cross-fire. Lieut.- 
 Col. Frank Cheney and Major George A. Washburn were 
 severely wounded, while three captains, a lieutenant, and 
 forty enlisted men were already dead. Men were falling 
 on every hand. 
 
 When Gen. Rodman ordered an advance of his division, 
 and Harland repeated the order to his brigade. Col. Apple- 
 man led the Eighth forward in steady step up the hill. 
 Nearly the whole corps was now charging, and the 
 advancing line stretched far away to the right. As they 
 reached the crest, the rebel troops were but a few rods in 
 front. The Union Une halted and poured in a telling, vol- 
 
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 ley, and again leaped forward ! and the enemy broke and 
 fled, halting and firing as they could. A storm of shot, 
 shell, and musketry was sweeping through the ranks of 
 the Eighth, now on the extreme Union left. Still farther 
 to the left a rebel battery rained canister. Capt. Chas. L. 
 Upham, with Co. K (Meriden) dashed up and captured 
 the battery, rejoining the regiment as it came up. 
 
 Steadily forward moves the line, now marking every 
 yard of advance with blood of fallen men. The rebels 
 still fall back. The first brigade wavers, and slowly 
 retires in disorder. Wilcox's division, too, is giving way 
 farther to the right. The Eighth presses forward, until 
 the men can see the road whereby Lee must retreat. 
 "The position is ours !" they shout, and a " hurrah" goes 
 down the line. 
 
 But already many have observed an immense force 
 moving straight up on the left flank. Some of the volun- 
 teers are now in liopeless disorder. The Eighth is now 
 alone clinging to the crest. Three batteries are turned on 
 them, and the enemy's infantry close in around. Col. 
 Appleman tells the standard-bearer never to leave the 
 colors. He responds firmly. One of the color-guard 
 falls ; two ; three ; four ; the last, and the standard goes 
 to the ground with him. Private Chas. H. Walker (of 
 Norwich) springs forward, and seizes it amid the storm 
 of death, strikes the staff firmly in the ground, and 
 shakes out the flag defiantly towards the advancing foe. 
 
 No reinforcements come. Twenty men are falling 
 every minute. Col. Appleman is borne to the rear. John 
 McCall falls bleeding. Eaton totters, wounded, down the 
 hill. Wait, bullet-riddled, staggers a few rods and sinks. 
 Ripley stands with a shattered arm, Russell lies wliite and 
 fitill. Morgan and Maine have fallen, Whiting Wilcox is 
 
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 dead. Men grow frantic. The woimded prop tliemsclves 
 behind the rude stone fence, and hurl leaden vengeance at 
 the foe. Even the chaplain snatclies tlie rifle and car- 
 tridge-box of a dead man, and figlits for life. " We must 
 fall back," says Major John E. Ward, now in command. 
 Some protest against what they feel is inevitable ; and 
 the hundred men still unscathed are faced to the 
 rear, and marclicd back in unbroken and still formidable 
 column down the hill. No regiment of the 9lli Corps lias 
 advanced so far, or held out so long, or retired in forma- 
 tion so good. By their stubborn fight tlicy have saved 
 many others from death or capture, and by their orderly 
 retreat tlicy save themselves. 
 
 The next morning Lee's pickets retired, and ours ad- 
 vanced. Ambulances moved forward, and Connecticut 
 men rushed with pails of water to succor their wounded. 
 Scores were quickly found. One of the men of the Eighth, 
 shot through the body, still lay on his back, just as lie had 
 fallen. The fierce sun of the day before had blistered and 
 blackened his face. His tongue, swollen to five times its 
 usual size, protruded from his open mouth. He was sight- 
 less and speechless, yet breathing. Water was dropped on 
 his parclied tongue. A sliglit slmdder convulsed his 
 frame. A little more and tlie tongue moved, and the 
 breast heaved painfully. At last tlie man revived, and 
 was borne away to tlie liospital. Another lies cold and 
 stiff in the corn field, with his teeth fastened firmly in an 
 ear of soft corn, with which lie has vainly tried to quench 
 his raging thirst. Here is a mere lad, shot through the 
 thigh, pale, and with closed eyes. He has bled profusely, 
 and is very weak, but alive. Not a drop of water lias he' 
 had for forty hours. The cool water touches liis lips, and 
 he starts up as if from stupor, and eagerly grasps the cup 
 
288 HISTORY OP BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 with botli liands. Memories of home flit througli his wearj ~ 
 brain, as, opening his eyes, he says, with a smile, "And 
 from a tea-ciqj, too." Tlie wounded cared for, tliey turned 
 to bury the dead. All day went on the excavation of 
 graves where the martyrs found a truce ; and as tlie shad- 
 ows lengthened and faded out, the sad work was ended. 
 The dead of the Eighth and the Sixteenth were laid side 
 by side on the ridge just above the point where the gallant 
 charge began, and those of the Eleventh near the edge of 
 the open woods above the bridge. The graves were 
 marked with pine head-boards, to tell where each patriot 
 rested. All of the Connecticut regiments had met with 
 terrible casualties, no less than a hundred and thirty-six 
 l)eing killed outright upon the held, and four Imndred and 
 sixty-six wounded. Among the latter were the lieutenant- 
 colonels of the Eighth, Eleventh, and Sixteenth. No bat- 
 tle of the war inflicted such losses upon the troops of our 
 State. The Eighth lost thirty-four killed and a hundred 
 and thirty-nine wounded, eleven of whom were commis- 
 sioned officers. This was nearly fifty per cent, of the 
 entire number present for duty. Marvin Wait, son of 
 John T. Wait, of Norwich, in the fall of 1861, when but 
 eighteen years old, enlisted as a private in the Eighth. 
 He was soon promoted to be second lieutenant, and being 
 detailed, attracted attention for his skill as a signal-officer 
 at Roanoke Island ; also at the reduction of Fort Macon. 
 Flc returned to his regiment in July, 1862; and v/as pro- 
 moted to be first lieutenant. AVhen the battle was raging 
 hottest, on the afternoon of the ITtli, and when the rebel 
 regiments, massed in front and flank, were pressing down 
 upon the line, Lieut. Wait fell. Just before he was 
 wounded he was seen closing up the ranks of his company 
 and deliberately dressing them in line. If Lieut. Wait 
 
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 had left the battle when first hit in the arm, all would 
 have been well; but he bravely stood to encourage his 
 men by his example, and at last nobly fell, pierced by 
 bullet after bullet. Major Ward wrote to his father, 
 "When first wounded, he was advised to leave, but 
 v/ould not; and, before consenting to do so, he received 
 three shots. The death of your son is a great loss to the 
 regiment. No officer could be more popular. His last 
 words to private Lewis D. King were, 'Are we whipping 
 them?' Said Lieut. Jacob Eaton, in memorial, 'A braver 
 man than Marvin Wait never confronted a foe; a more 
 generous heart never beat; a more unselfish patriot never 
 fell. Connecticut may well cherish and honor the memory 
 of such sons.' " 
 
 Sergeant George H. Marsh, of Hartford, was killed by 
 the first cannon-shot that went through the ranks at 
 sunrise. He was ill, but determined to be at his post; 
 and there he died, a trusty soldier, with a spotless reputa- 
 tion. 
 
 Sergeant Whiting Wilcox was a model soldier. He 
 was conspicuous in the charge; but the bravery which 
 would have won him promotion cost him his life. 
 
 John H. Simonds, of Hartford, was a bright, willing, 
 genial man, and a universal favorite. When shot through 
 the body, he only said, "Good-bye, boys, I'm going." 
 
 John A. Dixon, of Thompsonvillc (Enfield) was lying 
 mortally wounded, when a rebel came along, picked up a 
 Sharp's rifle, hid it behind the fence, and passed on after 
 other plunder. Dixon dragged himself to it, and having 
 rendered it useless, laid down to die. Here also fell Hai^ 
 vey E. Elmore, Elijah White, George F. Booth, Charles E. 
 Lewis, Oscar W. Hewitt, David Lake, Robert Ferris, Wil- 
 liam G. Lewis, and other noble young men who had 
 always fought in the front ranks of the Eighth. 
 
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 HISTORY OF BATTLE-FLAG DAY. 
 
 The Eleventh had lost thirty-eight kiUecl a ad ninety- 
 seven wounded. Among the killed were two of its 
 choicest men, — Kingsbury and Griswold, — both from the 
 ancient town of Lyme. Col. Kingsbury came to the 
 Eleventh Regiment crowned with triumphs at West Point, 
 and fragrant with the smoke of all the Peninsular battles. 
 He came when he was sorely needed. Military art pos- 
 sessed for him something high and ennobling. He loved 
 ,the right because it was the right; but he was virtuous 
 because he knew that vice degrades a soldier, and manly 
 and gentlemanly because it was impossible for him to be 
 otherwise.