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COMPANY K.
Mustered into United States service Nov. 10, 1863.
Jedediah Randall, capt., Groton, en1. Sept. 3, 1862; died June 9, 1863, of wounds received at Port Hudson, La.
Jabez S. Smith, first lieut., Groton, enl. Sept. 6, 1862 ; pro. to capt .; hon. disch. Ang. 17, 1863.
Simeon G. Fisher, second lieut., Groton, enl. Sept. 3, 1862; pro. to first lieut. ; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
Herbert E. Maxon, sergt., Groton, enl. Sept. 3, 1862 ; pro. to second lieut. Co. B; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
Charles H. Niles, sergt., Groton, enl. Sept. 10, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
Joshına Bliven, sergt., Groton, enl. Sept. 4, 1862 ; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Horace Clift, sergt, Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Ang. 17, 18633.
John E. Williams, sergt., Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862 ; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
Amos E. Slack, corp., Groton, enl. Sept. 10, 1862 ; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Latham Rathbun, corp., Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
Thomas Carroll, corp., Groton, en1. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
John G. Packer., corp .. Groton, enl. Sept. 3, 1862 : hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Alfred HI. Wilcox, corp., Grotou, enl. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
Jolin L. Seignions, corp., Groton, enl. Sept. 10, 1862; died June 16, 1863, of wounds received at Port Hudson, La.
Oliver D. Lewis, corp., Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862 ; disch. July 24, 1863. Thos. A. Perry, corp., Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Ang. 17, '63. William P. Latham, musician, Groton, enl. Sept. 3, 1862 ; died June, 1863, of wounds received at Port Iludson, La.
William Colgrove, musician, Groton, enl. Sept. 6, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
John G. Rathbun, wagoner, Groton, enl. Sept. 3, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
Andrews, Ezra B., Groton, enl. Sept. 9, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Albro, Thomas, Groton, enl. Sept. 10, 1862; hon, disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Avery, Giles W., Groton, en1. Sept. 8, 1862; hon, disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Bentley, Adam C., Groton, enl. Sept. 6, 1862; died March 18, 1863. Burnett, Warren, Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Briley, Charles E., Groton, en1. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Beebe, George W , Groton, en1. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Burdick, Caleb H., Groton, enl. Sept. 10, 1862 ; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Bailey, Ralph H., Groton, en]. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Bailey, John C., Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862 ; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Bailey, Pruscins, Groton, enl. Sept. 9, 1862; died June 9, 1863.
Colgrove, Wm. A., Groton, ent. Sept. 6, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Cranston, Charles K., Groton, en] Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Aug 17, 1863. Chester, Elisha A., Groton, en). Sept. 6, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Chester, Ira, Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Ang. 17, 1863. Clark, John B., Groton, ent. Sept. 30, 1862; hon. disch. Ang. 17, 1863. Daniels, Lyman, Groton, enl. Sept. 29, 1862; hon. disch, Ang. 17, 1863. Destin, Andrew. Groton, enl. Sept. 29, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Eldridge, Wm. H., Groton, ent. Sept. 10, 1862; disch. July 24, 1863. Ewen, George H., Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Ang. 17, 1863. Fellows, Win. C., Groton, enl. Sept. 9, 1862; died July 27, 1863. Gray, Stephen, Ledyard, ent. Sept. 6, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Holdridge, Henry S., Groton, en) Sept. 29, 1862 ; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Hancock, Frank, Groton, enl. Sept. 10, 1862; hon. disch. Ang. 17, 1863. Jesett, Joseph, Groton, enl. Oct. 14, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Keeney, Charles H., Groton, enl. Oct. 10, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Kinney, Lucius M., Groton, ent. Oct. 14, 1862; hon. disch. Ang. 17, 1863. Latham, Moses F., Groton, enl. Sept. 9, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Leeds, Joshua, Groton, enl. Sept. 10, 1862.
Manace, Albert. Groton, enl Sept 8, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Manace, Thomas, Groton, enl. Sept. 29, 1862; died July 21, 1863. Maloy, Thomas, Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Miner, Sanford S., Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Ang. 17, 1863. Martley, Patrick, Groton, enl. Sept. 9, 1862 ; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Newbury, Nathan H., Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Ang. 17, '63. Phillips, Josiah F., Groton, enl. Sept. 9, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Quinn, Charles B., Grotou, enl. Sept. 13, 1862; hon. disch. Ang. 17, 1863. Roath, Ezra W., Groton, enl. Sept. 9, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Rathbun, Samuel G., Groton, en]. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Reynolds, Chas. F., Grotou, enl. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch Aug. 17, 1863. Spaulding, Edwin G., Groton, enl. Sept. 10, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
Sullivan, James, Groton, en). Sept. 9, 1862.
Shirley, Jerome A., Groton, en1. Sept. 29, 1862; hon. disch. Ang. 17, 1863. Shirley, Thomas H., Groton, enl. Sept. 9, 1862; died Feb. 6, 1863.
Sheban, Timothy, Groton, enl. Sept. 9, 1862.
Smith, Henry G., Groton, enl. Sept. 29, 1862; hon, disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Smith, Isaac H., Groton, enl. Oct. 7, 1862.
Stafford, Armand, Groton, enl. Sept. 29, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Tufts, John, Groton, enl. Sept. 6, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
Taylor, George W., Groton, enl. Sept. 10, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Tinker, James, Groton, enl. Oct. 6, 1862 : died April 17, 1863.
Tift, Win. O., Groton, enl. Sept. 10, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
Wilkinson, Reubeu R., Groton, enl. Sept. 4, 1862; disch. July 23, 1863 ;
enl. headquarters troops, Louisiana.
Wood, Adoniram J., Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. Watson, John W., Groton, enl. Sept. 9, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
Williams, Christian H., Groton, en1. Sept. 10, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
Watrous, Wm. 11., Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862; died June 30, 1863. Wait, George R., Groton, enl. Oct. 7, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. White, Thomas H., Groton, enl. Sept. 8, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863. York, Edwin, Groton, enl. Sept. 3, 1862; hon. disch. Ang. 17, 1863. York, William, Groton, enl. Sept. 4, 1862; hon. disch. Aug. 17, 1863.
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Joseph Felden
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MILITARY HISTORY.
JOSEPH SELDEN .- The Seldens are an old Con- necticut family, with a genealogical tree whose roots reach back to 1635, at which date the first of the name in this country settled at Hartford. Joseph Selden, the son of this pioneer, removed to Lyme in 1695, and purchased a farm there, a portion of which is still held by the family under the deed of that date. His homestead has been handed down to his descendants from generation to generation ever since. Col. Samuel Selden, the head of the family during the Revolution, commanded the Third Battalion of Connecticut troops, and participated in the battle of Long Island in 1776. He was taken prisoner during Washington's retreat from New York, and died in the Old Brick church, then used by the British as a patriot prison.
Samuel C. Selden, uncle of the Joseph Selden who is the subject of this sketch, and through whom he inherited the Lyme property, was one of the most popular and best-known men in Connecticut. He was the friend and companion of such men as John A. Rockwell, Henry Strong, Charles J. McCurdy, and Chief Justice Henry M. Wait, and served promi- nently in the State Senate and House of Representa- tives.
Joseph Selden was born May 19, 1824, and resided in Lyme, on the ancestral farm, up to the spring of 1859, filling many positions of trust and honor, in- cluding a term in the Legislature in 1855. In 1858 the old homestead was burned down, and the next spring Mr. Selden removed to Norwich. At the breaking out of the war he was made a member of the war committee and did zealous service.
In August, 1862, came President Lincoln's call for three hundred thousand nine months' men. Norwich had already sent a large proportion of her young men to the front, the task of enlistment was slow, and the outlook grew gloomy. At this juncture Mr. Selden came to the front and enlisted. His great popularity made the act timely and influential, and in three days the company was filled.
Mr. Selden was chosen captain and received his commission Sept. 6, 1862. Ten days later he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-sixth Regiment. The regiment entered active service in the Department of the Gulf.
During the siege of Port Hudson the regiment was under Col. Selden's command, and did hard and praiseworthy service. That siege was a terrible one in its effects on besiegers as well as besieged, and the Twenty-sixth Connecticut owed much of its efficiency to the zealous and untiring efforts and executive ability of Col. Selden. When the surrender took place the regiment was given a prominent place in the ceremony and honorable mention in the official reports.
When the regiment was mustered out of service, Aug. 16, 1863, Col. Selden's health was terribly shat- tered. On his recovery, in the fall of the same year,
he was called to the executive office of Governor Buck- ingham, and almost immediately was sent to New Orleans, where he re-enlisted as veterans the Ninth, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Regiments, and paid them their State bounties. On his return from New Or- leans, in 1864, he was commissioned assistant adjutant- general, with the rank of colonel, and assigned to duty in the executive office. In the winter of 1864-65, Col. Selden was sent by Governor Buckingham to Norfolk, Va., to enlist colored troops for the quota of the State, as was permitted by an act of Congress. His mission was a complete success, resulting in the enlistment of several hundred.
On the assassination of President Lincoln, Gover- ernor Buckingham and Senator Foster proceeded at once to Washington. The Governor was accompanied by Col. Selden, to whom he intrusted the duty of se- curing a volunteer escort for Senator Foster, whose safety, as president pro tempore of the Senate and second in the Presidential succession, was felt to be of the greatest national importance. At the close of the war Col. Selden resigned his commission as assist- ant adjutant-general of the State. From the time of his entry into the executive office he had been on terms of cordial intimacy with the Governor, and treated rather as a close personal friend than as an official sub- ordinate. In accepting his resignation the Governor sent him the following note, which shows better than anything else can the warm friendship of the two men :
" COL. JOSEPH SELDEN :
"MY DEAR COLONEL,-I am in receipt of your favor of this date, and happy to know that our official and social intercourse has been so agree- able to you, and to assure you that it has not given you more satisfaction and pleasure than it has me.
"I thank you for your expressions of personal interest, and am grati- fied that my official course has been such as to meet your approval.
" While you have been on duty in my office you have made many val- uable suggestions, which have influenced my action and have often in- spired me with new vigor for the performance of official duties. For this and all your kindness and co-operation you have my earnest prayer for your highest prosperity and happiness.
" Accept the assurance of my great respect and affection.
"WM. A. BUCKINGHAM."
Upon leaving the service of the State, Col. Selden again went into business, being one of the originators of the Norwich Lock Company, from which he re- tired in 1869. In 1868 he served a term in the Legis- lature. He has all his life been active in politics, and his fine presence, unusual tact, remarkable facil- ity for making friendships, and unyielding fidelity to his friends have given him a wide influence. He has acted for many years as a member of the Republican State Committee, and was its chairman in 1874-75.
In May, 1869, he was made United States collector of internal revenue for the Eastern District of Con- necticut, which office he has since filled with credit to himself and satisfaction to both the people and the government.
Other Regiments .- The following enlisted from this county in various regiments :
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Samuel R. Chadwick. Michael McKeon. Henry H. Mitchell. Jeremiah F. Sullivan. Oscar F. Stroud. William K. Appleby. George E. Bump. Herman Ghuler.
F. H. Fanning. E. E. Town.
Havilah Robbins.
James Harris.
Jeremialı Rogers.
Patrick Hines.
Warren W. Packer.
John H. Tracy.
Ezra M. Holloway.
Alfred L. Packer.
George D. Tift.
Peter Immeriah.
Eugene H. Covey.
James HI. Verguson.
Jolın L. Keeney.
Albert L. Gavitt.
Albert E. Daniels.
Ambrose E. Lester.
James M. Starr.
John L. Daniels.
Burrows Partelo.
Ezra N. Barber.
Charles Henry.
George W. Wilcox.
William E. Horton.
Albert Helmer.
Charles H. Corey.
William G. Dickinson.
John Halpin.
Albert C. Andrews.
Oliver P. Ormsby.
John E. Jones.
Jolın C. Briggs.
Edward A. Allyn.
Henry Kerney.
Charles C. Brightman.
Ezra Avery.
Gardner B. Rogers. Jacob Dyetch.
George Chapman, died.
George Bedford.
John Brown.
Frederick L. Chapman, died.
Edward Fowler.
Darius Bennett.
Charles S. Comstock.
Asa B. Fish.
William H. Davis.
Charles A. Day.
William A. Gunn.
George Snow.
Henry Jilson.
Jared F. Hoxie.
Nelson H. Green. Theodore Hall.
William H. Newbury.
Andrew H. Davison.
Erastus A. Maynard.
Charles H, Hanmer.
William H. Noyes.
Austin Adams.
James McGovern.
John King. William J. Lombard,
Horace E. Partlo.
Benjamin G. Barber.
Christopher Schulte.
Horatio H. Pollard.
Joel K. Bitgood.
John Smith.
George J. Ridley.
Simon Brown.
Wm. E. Woodmansee. William Cole. Andrew Cominger.
Albert A. Brewster.
Edward Bennett.
Oliver P. Davison.
Harry Crawford.
Edward B. Chipman.
Joseph King.
Gilbert A. Davis.
Joshua A. Dyer.
William W. Ewen. John W. Ferguson. Silas Hollis.
James Shannon.
Samuel W. Gavitt.
Henry Gaunt. Isaac P. George. Isaac J. Hill.
Gorton Brown. Gilbert Beebe, Jr. Richard F. Morgan. Jolın Mulligan.
David A. Mallory.
Elijah J. Green.
Jefferson Miller.
Patrick Murphy. Samuel S. Ryan.
William D. Spicer.
Henry Lewis.
John R. Swingler.
Benjamin G. Smith.
Nathaniel P. Wolf.
Daniel Murphey.
William F. Harris.
Ichabod B. Slates.
John Wolfer.
Samuel HI. Sheldon. Byron D. Smith.
George W. Odell. Charles Robinson.
Henry Borst.
William Erytroble.
William E. Sweet.
Lewis B. Thompson.
Michael D. Cashin.
Isaac Hirsch.
Whipple O. Trask.
Dennis W. Williams.
John Delaney. Michael Healey. Joshua C. Albro. John Banks.
David White.
Ralph Allen.
Sanford E. Stewart.
Henry Dandt.
Joseplı T. Eccleston.
Cassius M. Bartman.
Anthony Turner.
William Harper.
Elisha R. Starr.
John Brand.
Lewis H. Thomas.
William Jaeger. John Merklee. Phineas Malin. Robert A. Stewart.
George B. Lattimer.
Stephen Eldridge.
George C. Penhallow. J. S. Hall.
George W. Taylor, Jr.
Joseph A. Allen.
James Gay.
J. R. Rand. James B. Stewart.
Patrick Denehey.
Joseph N. Banks.
Moses Gay.
John Edwards.
John C. Collins.
Charles B Hutchins.
M. Donahue. Charles Henry.
James Galloway. Frank A. Goodrich.
Paul Dofant.
Timothy O'Connell.
II. B. Smith, Jr .; pro. Ist lieut.
Nathan D. Lamphere. John Allen. George Allen. Jolın Blake.
Prescott II. Baker.
George B. Stillman.
G. W. Penhallow. John Shanahan. Anthony Bulkley.
Daniel Bradan.
James Brett.
Samuel N. Watrous.
Michael Carroll.
James W. Burdick.
Edward C. Grafton.
Henry Dunn.
Lewis P. Card. John H. Lee.
Henry L. Schleiter. Joseph Strickland.
O. F. Strond.
Frederick Havens. William Hall. John Mack.
Rhodes K. Lewis.
James E. Metcalf.
C. S. Comstock.
Josiah Parkerson.
Lewis Beckwith.
Nelson H. Green.
Henry Phillips.
Abner N. Sterry.
Charles H. Hanmer.
Lafayette Starr.
Englebert Sauter.
Gorton Brown.
George II. Keables. Thomas Lawler.
Edward Betz. Elvin Beebe.
G. Beebe, Jr. R. F. Morgan. John Mulligan.
Henry L. Newcomb.
Charles E. Chappell.
De Witt C. Newcomb.
John L. Daniels.
N. W. Smith.
Samuel C. Rogers.
Joseph Franz.
J. W. Tucker.
James Boote. William Hough. John McNeal.
David Robbins. Alden Rudd.
David H. Geer. George C. Gilbert.
HIemy Borst. M. D. Cashin.
William H. Sampson. Jacob Art. Charles A. Beebe. William C. Beebe.
Frank Vananken.
John McDonald.
George D. Davis.
Samuel Francis.
William O'Neil.
Patrick Gallivan.
Robert R. Gray.
Watson Garriett.
Charles H. Green.
Alexander Jackson.
Charles Rockwell.
William Grinshaw.
Augustus I. Ransom. William H. Smith.
Erastus D. Smith.
Edward T. Jillson.
George M. Jupiter.
Charles E. Staplin.
Martin Berns.
Joseph W. Tucker.
James Boyce.
Lemuel A. Smith.
Timothy Tynan.
Elijah B. Johnson.
Robert Sloper.
Asael Youngs.
Charles Seeley. Robert Smyth.
James Sutton.
Leroy H. Babcock.
Charles H. Chapman.
Isaac Wilson. B. O'Neil.
John Huntington.
Josiah S. Coleman.
Morton W. Brown.
John Eldridge.
Frederick J. Shelley. Adam Steine.
W. D. Shepard.
Michael Fitzmaurice.
Gilbert R. Fox.
Eugene Branch.
Samuel Taten, Jr.
P. Hickey. M. Mckeon. J. F. Sullivan, died of wounds.
John Maguire. Thomas Magee. James Moore. Richard Murray. John Brady. Andrew Brown.
Edward L. Cordner.
James P. Hyde.
Christopher Flynn. Henry Hasler. Walter Hussey.
James P. Howard.
Isaac E. Norman.
Curtiss S. Arnold.
Edward Rigney.
Charles H. Tripp.
Allen Campbell.
Michael Collins.
Cornell M. Monroe. Calvin N. Niles. Amos S. Phillips.
Francis W. Preston. Micah Read. Leonard G. Roath.
Leonard Heath.
John Ragin.
Charles B. Maxon.
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J. Art. A. A. Brewster.
E. B. Chipman, died. W. W. Ewen. J. W. Furgusson. J. L. Kelly. A. D. White.
P. Newman.
John Banks. Jolın St. George. John Fitzgerald. M. Richardson.
J. Bishop, Jr. D. M. Lee. S. C. Thompson, died. Thomas Goff.
Charles Knight. J. L. Stevens.
John Sheridan. A. Namnarp. J. T. Brown. J. Fanesay.
G. King.
G. Konzelman. John H. Phillips. G. C. Fitch.
Ebenezer Carpenter, sergt .- maj.
John H. Hough.
S. C. Bngbee, killed June 29, 1864.
C. H. Eldridge. John W. Pierce.
D. B. Winchester, killed Dec. 7, 1863.
Ilugh B. Brockway, pro. 2d lieut.
Amos Clift, 2d lieut. Samuel Bush. John A. Hunter.
P. Sullivan.
J. C. Foot.
P. G. Lumbard.
G. M. Manning.
J. Thompson.
John Harris.
Thomas Burns.
James Watts.
Thomas Brown.
J. Barber.
William Culver.
C. E. Wold.
M. Nally.
H. Palmer.
F. Washington.
William Wilson.
HI. L. Johnson, Jr.
P. Hanson, died July 13, 1864.
A. Lane, died Oct. 23, 1864.
A. H. Minor.
H. Pogles.
Edmund Viscount.
J. A. Dilworth.
R. C. Champlin. James Church.
Samuel Briggs.
F. Alvey. E. Allen. C. S. Batty.
H. D. Frisby, died.
M. Taylor. Charles W. Payne, Jr.
John Carroll, died.
L. II. Bailey.
C. W. Jores. Adam Rose. James Walker.
J. Phillips, died.
H. E. Wells.
E. W. Watrous.
Lorenzo Burroughs, died.
Thomas B. Clarke.
John Prenn, died.
C. Winters.
H. S. Woods.
Ist Lient. D. O. Sullivan.
Peter Brocar.
W. A. Washington.
G. Freeman, died. John Hunter.
Adam Smith.
S. C. Thomas.
W. L. Hyatt.
William Mathews.
H. F. Chapman.
J. M. Fox.
J. Morrison.
W. T. Patterson.
J. Rowley.
James Smith, killed March 25, 1865.
S. Bulger.
D. S. Gilman.
A. M. Mitchell.
A. Allen.
D. MeCarty.
W. C. Faxon.
J. R. Young.
M. O'Riley.
A. L. Babbitt.
R. F. Harvey, died March 2, 1862.
P. Green.
David Town.
G. Acker.
M. Dailey.
N. B. Holmes.
J. A. Abbott.
W. Parkhurst, died.
J. Hudley.
Albert Alger.
Henry Alger.
William Alger, drowned.
Nelson Emmins.
H. B. James.
J. Congden.
T. W. Dolbeare.
W. W. King.
J. F. Mitchell.
W. B. Tooker.
C. B. Beebe.
J. L. Comstock.
J. P. Gay, Jr.
George Brown.
William Millerhill.
Henry Burnham.
James Crawford, died.
P. P. Noyes.
S. A. Armstrong.
S. D. Allen, died June 8, 1864.
F. Moore, died.
M. Carroll.
E. Clifford.
Jean Marie.
S. Reynolds.
J. Ahearn.
Asa Belknap.
James Dunse.
M. O'Donnell.
A. Leroy Prentice, died Dec. 7, 1862.
N. L. Bishop.
Henry Harris, died March 19 1865. J. A. Tracy.
J. F. Tunner. W. Butler. G. W. Boyd. W. H. Boyer. T. Boyer. E. C. Carroll.
J. H. Brown.
William H. Brown.
George Martin.
S. McManus.
J. Riley. H. F. Williams.
J. Burns.
A. Bell.
Surgeon A. P. Douglass.
J. A. Payne.
J. Walton.
E. B. Rogers.
Thomas Walsh.
T. Wilson.
Col. T. H. C. Kingsbury.
Col. H. W. Kingsbury, killed Sept. 17, 1862.
James Burns.
G. F. Tillinghast.
E. Riley, captured.
H. A. Bingham.
A. A. Peckham.
John Batty.
William Edwards.
D. Hall.
G. A. Smith.
N. C. Dilworth.
W. T. Havens.
John H. Hurd, died.
P. Kennedy.
A. Miner.
Thomas Douglass.
G. W. Rouse.
Azel G. Snow.
Alonzo B. Robinson.
Charles II. Potter.
David C. Comstock.
Joseph A. Crouch.
Oliver S. Loomis. Nathaniel Ransom. Timothy A. Avery. Seth W. Carver.
George E. Carrier.
Moses B. Chapel.
Ralph R. Gillett.
Oscar A. Gillett.
Nathan B. JIutchins.
William II. Hyde.
Elias Johnson, Jr.
Henry C. Johnson. Maurice Lappe.
Michael O'Laughlin.
Edward P. Morgan. Frederick S. Mason.
Abel B. Neal.
William Nette.
Oscar M. Palmer.
Henry C. Rogers.
Alban Rathbone.
James M. Raymond.
Henry Storrs. Henry Scholl.
Daniel H. Sprague.
Amos Spofford. James M. Snowden.
Augustus Tittel. Frederick D. Winton.
George W. Wilcox.
Samuel S. Wilcox.
Warren A. Wright. Henry J. Wilson.
E. P. Brockway. R. Carlton. Robert Jackson. Frank Keables. Richard O'Niel. C. A. Richmond. Charles Sawyer. William Scheibel. John Smithı. F. W. Tickle. J. D. Turner. Charles Armstrong. William Adams. James Butler. William Beckett. William II. Burns.
M. Begg. John Bergun.
George Case.
P. Curran.
A. Curtis.
M. Donnahne.
D. Donovan. J. L. Fleming. L. Morrisini.
R. Tyghe, died. W. Hussey, died. James Rawson.
Henry Cann. Philip Davis.
P. Sands.
J. Pinion.
T. W. Pinion.
A. Reed.
J. P. Thompson.
John Underhill.
A. Williams.
R. Otis, died. J. Saulsbury, died.
L. Gingle.
John Gray.
Capt. J. D. Griswold, killed Sept. 17, 1862.
L. B. Johnson.
W. Baker. A. Harkin.
Andrew G. Fitch.
Orlando L. Brown.
Erastus Saunders.
Peleg A. Dawley.
Maurice Daily. E. Baldwin. James E. Gray. John F. Hoffman. John Kelly.
D. Miller. -
Daniel Whipple.
C. A. Clark. George P. DeWolf. John Pachey. J. J. Sullivan. W. H. Birch. P. Cushing.
A. J. Sprague. H. P. Shoales. Lyman Doolittle; J. F. Dewolf, died. Nelson Hart. J. N. Mitchell.
J. Kidd.
J. O'Donnell.
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HISTORY OF NEW LONDON COUNTY, CONNECTICUT.
Our military history is closed. We have faithfully traced the history of the various regiments, and it has been our honest endeavor to place before the people of New London County a truthful record of her gallant sons who risked their lives in the defense of their country. We have sought to deal justly with all, and give credit to each and every regiment.
While the history is a record of many of the se- verest battles of the war, it is not in any particular overdrawn,-it "is a plain, unvarnished tale." It has been impossible to sketch many individual acts of heroism, but these were not wanting.
New London County may justly feel proud of her soldiery, as no section of our country acted a more prominent or honorable rôle in the great tragedy.
Sixteen years have now elapsed since the close of the Rebellion, and we find our country a united and prosperous people. Sectional strife is rapidly pass- ing away, and the same hand strews flowers alike on the graves of the Blue and Gray :
" No more shall the war-cry sever Or the winding rivers be red, They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead. Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment-day, Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray."
CHAPTER VII.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
First Road between Norwich and New London-First Turnpike in the United States-The Norwich and Providence Post-Road-The Norwich and Woodstock Road-The Essex Turnpike-The Shetucket Turnpike -Railroads-The Norwich and Worcester Railroad-The New London Northern-New York, Providence and Boston-New York, New Haven and Hartford-The Colchester Railroad.
THE first road between New London and Norwich was laid out by order of the Legislature in about the year 1670, but for more than a century, however, the road was little better than an Indian trail.
In 1789 several prominent individuals formed an association to effect an improvement of this road. The Legislature granted them a lottery, the avails of which were to be expended in repairing so much of the road as ran through the Indian land. This lottery was drawn at Norwich in June, 1791. The next May a company was incorporated to make the road a turn- pike and erect a toll-gate. By these various exertions the distance was reduced to fourteen miles from the court-house on Norwich Green to the court-house in New London, and the traveling rendered tolerably safe. The toll commenced in June, 1792 [4-wheel carriages, 9d. ; 2 do., 4}d. ; man and horse, 1d.].
This was the first turnpike in the United States. Dr. Dwight observes in his "Travels" that this road brought the inhabitants of Norwich and New Lon- don more than half a day's journey nearer to each other. "Formerly (he says) few persons attempted
to go from one of these places to the other and return the same day ; the journey is now easily performed in little more than two hours."
This turnpike became almost immediately an im- portant thoroughfare, of great service to Norwich and the towns in her rear for driving cattle and trans- porting produce to New London for embarkation. In 1806 it was extended to the landing by a new road that began at the wharf bridge and fell into the old road south of Trading Cove bridge. In 1812 another new piece of road was annexed to it, which was laid out in a direct line from the court-house to the old Mohegan road. The company was dissolved and the toll abolished July 1, 1852.
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