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log huts. Several regiments have recently left in the old Eighth. So you see we are not dead here abandoning an abundance of material for yet. Nor do we propose, D. V. to yield while the building of comfortable quarters. We do rebellion and slavery, the primal cause of rebel- lion, resist our national authority. not expect to stay here to enjoy them if either Price or Hood come within striking distanec. UNION.
From the 8th Regiment.
STH REGT. C. V. V. 1., 21TH Cours, { . ARMY OF THE JAMES, Va., Dec. 22d, 1864.
FRIEND MORRIS :- Two months have passed since I last reported for the Eighth. Since then the Army of the James has been reorganized. The white troops of both the 18th and loth Corps were formed into a new Corps, the 24th, and the colored troops juto another, the 25th. The latter occupies the left of this position on the north bank of the James, and the former the right. Our regiment is still retained on guard duty now at Headquarters 21th Corps. It is said that our men pleaso the officers in command, very much. These headquarters are on the ground of the old 10th Corps. Hence we were obliged in the re- construction, to leave the comfortable houses our men had prepared, and found ourselves as a severe storm was approaching, with very little to cover our heads. However, houses grew rapidly and we are better provided now than before. Imme- diately succeeding my last communication, a re- connoissance in force was made upon the extreme right. The Eighth being on guard did not parti- cipate. Our men could seareely content theut- selves as they listened to the thunder of artillery on both right and left, and knew that earnest work was progressing, and they not taking an active part. Many were the words of gratitude that we could be relieved from the severity of battle. But soon we were made sad. For, thongh the Regiment was not in the fight it had worthy representatives there.
Capt. Charles M. Coit, A. A. A. Gen. on Brigade staff, was severely, and we then feared, mortally woundod. And Sergt. Ilickok, Co. A. of the sharpshooters, was wounded and taken prisoner. These, with one other wound from a chance shell. some days afterwards, are all the casualties, we have suffered. Capt. Coit, who by the way. had just previous received a commission to the major. ity of the regiment, after suffering severely, and hanging for a long time apparently midway be- tween life and death is, we hope, slowly recover- ing.
Since I wrote you, we have all rejoiced over the re-cloction of President Lineoln. The thrill- ing victories since, are but a fair expression of the approval which the army, and we believe, God also, desires to render to the decision of the nn- tion.
Thanksgiving, too, lias come sinee I last wrote you. Many thanks we return to all the kind friends who conceived the idea and labored to secure for us a real New England Thanksgiving dinner. We fully appreciate their bountiful hearts, although we enjoyed only the anticipation. Other regiments somewhere in the service, we suppose, cujoyed the reality. However, we re- ecived if not these supplies, a fine set of recruits for our wasted ranks. Nov. 29th, 95 out of 100 sent, actually arrived. They seem to promise well. We have now an aggregate of nearly 3001" the right man in the right place."
During these two months Capt. Goodrich and Lieut. Rathburn have been mustered out of ser- vice, and C'apt. Einmons Graves, on Major Gen. Weitzel's staff, has been added to ns.
to execute five deserters, all from Co. G. 1st Conn. Heavy Artillery. They were new comers to that regiment, but apparently not novices in crime. They deserted on the 14th inst. were tried and found guilty on the 19th, and executed on the 21st. They were informed of their fate about two hours before their execution. It was a hard place for the Chaplain, for Capt. Morgan, who commended the squads, and for om men who did the summary deed. But they faithfully performed the requirement, and with the sharp sound "fire," each prisoner fell insensible. I can but feel that the influence will prove eminently salitary. Bounty jumping by some is thought to be only a sharp trick. Several to my knowl- edge, who witnessed yesterday's exeention, have enlightened views of justice, authority and law. and more than one in N. Y. has been warned by letter to-day, of what may be expected in attempt- ing to escape from the front.
Tell the friends at home that we still hope for the favor of God, and are preparing to serve again with vigor, our betrayed but redeemed country. Yours, ever, in this good cause. CHAPLAIN.
From the 2d Conn. Light Battery. MOUTH OF WINTE RIVER, ARK., Docember 21st, 1864.
The battery is still detained at this point, not- withstanding we are under semi-marching orders and are required to keep on hand ten days rations and to have transportation in readiness to convey us to Memphis, Morganza, Little Rock or wherey- er else our services might be demanded. The place where we are located is not of any particular military importance, but lying on the Mississippi between the White and Arkansas rivers, and be- ing an island formed by a "cut off " between the two last mentioned. It is easily defended from attack-the principal patrol being guu boats, and affords a very convenient depot and rendezvous.
Maj. Gen. J. J. Reynolds has taken command of the Department of Arkansas, relieving Gen. Steele, who has been ordered to report to Gen. Canby at New Orleans, for assignment to command. Gen. Reynolds command is not confined to the Depart- ment of Arkansas, and we are required to report to him as well as to the headquarters of the De- partinent of the Gulf. We are daily expecting marching orders either to Memphis or Little Rock, as the rebel Generals Ilood and Price de- velop their intentions.
been in command of the battery for some months ; he is a good commanding officer, has the confi- dence of the men and will, doubtless, prove to be
There is a general complaint among ibe men in regard to the rations, which are insufficient, particularly in the items of bread or flour, rice and beans and potatoes. The oldl ration of 1863 should be restored. It was a grand mistake that it was ever altered.
The majority of those who went North last summer on siek furlonghs, have rejoined the bat- Yesterday, Dec. 21st, our regiment was called tery, and we have now a pretty full complement
of men. During the past month we have lost one by death in camp, John C. Newton of Strat. ford.
We have had a severe storm of a week's lura- tion, which has left us surrounded by a boundless coutiguity of inudl. Our shelter tents would have been no protection against such inelement wea- ther, notwithstanding they are all the govern- ment affords ns. But old soldiers are not long in constructing a log hnt which they make not only dry and warm but convenient and comforta- ble. UNION,
From the 11th Regiment.
11TH Coxs. Vors .. 2
BERMUDA HUNDRED, Va., Nov. 30, 1864. 1
DEAR EDITOR :- The last of autumn with us is warm and beautiful as spring. Thanksgiving camo with unusual smiles and certain substantial tokens from home. Mars hid his grim visage. We're- ceived our turkey and apples with thankfulness and with a fresh determination to push the war till Thanksgiving and other New England cus- toms are observed in each of these United States and throughout the National Domain.
This Thanksgiving was a day of special glad- ness in our regiment, for it brought us, so often and sorely bereaved, a Field Officer again. Car- tain Randall II. Rice, who has been with the Eleventh from its formation, known and helped make our history, and who was wounded for tho second time, and we feared mortally, at Peters- burg, on the 18th of June, returned to us as Ma- fjor, with improved health, and zeal for the cause and for the honor of the Eleventh, unabated. The snecessive deaths of Major Converse, Adju- tant Barnum, Colonel Stedman and Lieut. Col. Moegling, with the long days of mourning which followed these repeated strokes, had prepared us to extend to him a most hearty welcome. Be- sides these losses by death, Major Kies, who had succeeded the heroic Converse, has been compell- ed to leave the service from continued ill-health, incurred by continued exposure in the field.
Lieut. Davis has been absent all the cam- paign, as Acting Quartermaster of the 24 Divi- sion, 18th Army Corps. Our Veteran Surgeon, Dr. Whiteomb, together with Dr. Sitterlee, have been away, called to other and larger fields. And so it is, that with one exception, none of Col. Stedman's Military Family is left with the Regi- ment, and four of them-just half-are among the dead.
Similar to this, is the record of the Line ( Milicers and of the Regiment. Our men have been sepa- rated somewhat, as well as diminished in number.
Since the date of my last letter, Capt. John W. Sterling has been honorably discharged, and 1st Lieut, Walter S. Hotchkiss has been promoted to the Captainey of the Battery. The Intter has | But now the detachment of one hundred men, under Captain Krauzynski, who have been doing duty at the Siege Train Depot of the 1st Conn. Heavy Artillery, have come back with words of warm commendation from Colonel Abbott. Yet
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gathering together the little remnant of so many of the Corps, and twice and in most flattering bloody days we connt in this Department terms by General Butler, of the Department, and barely 300 men. At the first of May we had Sol ! yet, as if to mock all earthly honor, his Brevet for duty, while our rolls gave a total of more | as Brigadier, only came after he had received his than a thousand. Then, too, we had 30 Officers : mortal wound. He was eminently fitted for coul- for duty-now 12. Our losses began at Swift mand. Ilis judgment was sound, ripe beyond his Creek, on the 9th of May, 12 in all. One week year, and wide in its range. Few subjects came from that Monday at Drury's Bluff our total loss' up on which he had not thought and formed his was 184. At Cold Harbor, June 3d, 90. Then opinions. Men naturally trusted him in an emer- Major Converse fell, and Adjutant Barmum and geney. He was rigorous in discipline; sometimes Captain Alien received wounds which afterwards . severe, but justice, not passion, ruled in it all. proved fatal. Then followed those days in the | llis courage was of the truest and most unflinch- trenches and with Old Virgil, " I shudder recall. ing kind. It was supported by toughness of ing them." Again at Petersburg, June, 18th, our frame and physical vigor. But it was not brutal ; casualties were 49. Among them Captain Sackett, it was not animal; it was not insensibility to who fell in the thickest of the fight, and three ( danger, but a moral principle, based on convie. other officers wounded.
tions of duty, calin, eool, firm as a rock and reli-
July was a month of sluggish but uninterrupt- able as a Damascus blade. Hle sheltered his men, ed war. We lived in ditches and holes of the ! but was prodigal of his own life. Hle ruled in earth, exposed to the sun and dog star by day, camp, but on the field he had a paternal care for the dew by night, and both rebel fire and diar-, his regiment. I have seen him without the least rhica-another Virginia evil-at all times. The apparent solicitude for himselfarranging his com- mouth ended with the explosion at the Crater mand and earing for them man by man. I espe. when, though spectators merely, we sustained a loss of & men.
But with the Eleventh, August 5th was the | breastworks, when the terrible slaughter that we dark day ; for on that evening Colonel Stedman inflicted on the rebels at first, was paid back to received his mortal wound.
LIEUT. COLONEL MOEGLING,
was also slightly wounded. Ile was even then indisposed. Ill health followed, and after a par- tial recovery he grew worse again. Ilis sickness finally became a typhoid, and it was soon thought advisable that he should visit his home and try a Northern climate. But he went home to die. Exposure and hardship during four campaigns, had been doing this work. The vital powers were overborne. No care of friends or home at- tentions eould avail. He had been thrice wound- ed, and had been in frequent battles and despe- rate charges, yet had escaped them all only to meet death in another form. To this land of his adoption, to Constitutional Government, and to Universal Liberty, which is the same in every land, he gave the blossom of his manhood and his life, He had the real Germanie love of Liberty and its opposite fate, a keen hate to slavery. HIe was one of the first to join the first Volunteer Regiment in the State; he served faithfully. fought fearlessly, and having before spilled his blood, finally offered his life in the National canse.
In your last some things were said of COLONEL STEDMAN.
A friendship dating from my first acquaintance with him-a friendship now purified, but even then sometimes exalted to a tender love, will not allow me to close a letter which has become but a neerology of the Regiment, without a tribute to his memory. Ilis culture, his refinement, his urbanity, his taste, his delicacy and purity of sen- timent, fitted him well for social concourse and the evening assembly. But he had royal and martial qualities to which a drawing room could give no Commissions, scope. Ilis promotion in military life culy fol- During the months of October and November. Ist new commissions have been issued to officers lowed acknowledged merit, aml that at a long interval. While acting Brigadier General in this fin the Connecticut Volunteer force. Of these offi- terrible campaign, he had been recommended for
cers, 76 have been promoted from " enlisted men," that rank, by all his superior officers, by General | and six appointed from civil life ; 41 commissions Martindale of the Division, General Baldy Smith, I have been sent to the Ist Artillery alone.
PERSONAL.
Promotions and Appointments for Nov., 1864.
IST CAVALRY
Q. MI Sergt. Henry W. Robertson to be Ist Lieut and Quartermaster, with rank from the 7th of Nov., vice Harris inti-tered out, term expired. Sergt. Lester W. Cowles to be 2d Lieut. with rank from the loth of Nov., vice Phillips, promo- ted.
14t Lient. Joimes R. Straut to be Captain, vice Colburn, deceased.
Ist Sergt. Elias S. Brown to be 2d Lieut., vice Marey, commission revoked.
IST ARTILLERY.
Ist Lieut. John M. Twiss to be Captain, vice Dow mnetered ont, teri expired.
2d Lieut. John Odell to be Ist Lieut., viee Twiss, promoted.
Sergt. Win. B. Burgess to be 2d Lient., vice Day mustered out, term expired.
Sergt. Gardner Reynolds to be 2d Lieut , viee Twining mustered out, term expired.
Sergt. James Il. Casey to be 2d Lieut., vice Morgan mustered out, term expired.
Sergt. Win. S. Maloney to be 2d Lieut., vice Odell, promoted.
All with rank from the 31st of Oct.
Ist Lient. George D. Sargeant to be Captain, vice Gillett innstered ont, term expired.
Ist Lieut. Glenroy P. Mason to be Captain, vice Osborne mustered out, term expired.
2dl Lieut. George F. Bill to be Ist Lieut., vice Sargeant, promoted.
2d Lieut. Sterling A, Woodruff to be Ist Lieut., vice Mason, promoted.
Sergt. Chas. A. Chittenden to be 2d Lieut., vice Andrews mustered out, term expired.
Sergt. John W. Miller to be 2d Lieut., vice Manix mustered ont, terin expired.
Sergt. James J. Bergin to be 2d Lieut, vice Bill, promoted.
Sorgt. Wm. II. Batterson to be 2d Lieut., vice Woodruff, promoted.
All to take rank from the 11th of October.
Major Thos. S Trumbull to be Lieut. Col., vice White mustered out, term expired.
Captain Geo. Ager to be Major, vice Trumbull. promoted.
Both with rank from the 20th of Nov.
2D ARTILLERY.
2. Lient, Michael Kelly to be Ist Lieut., vice MeCabe died of wounds received in action. 24 Lient. Orasmus B. Tyler to be Ist Lieut .. vice Cleaveland, promoted.
1 st. Sergt. S.dmon A. Granger to be 2d Lieut., vice Kelley, promoted.
1st Fergt, John E Sedgwick to be 2d Lieut , viec Tyler, promoted.
All with rank from the 18th of Nov. 14T. LIGHT BATTERY.
2.1 Lieut. Sylvanus C. Dickinson to be 1st Lient .. vice Bliss musterrd out, term expired.
1st, Fergt, Arthur E. Clarke to be 2d Lieut . vice Diekinson, promoted.
Both with rank from the 9th of Nov.
2D LIGHT BATTERY.
2.1 L'eut. Miles Gray to be Ist Lieut., vice Manger, discharged.
1st Sergt. Justus B. Hawley to be 2d Lieut vice Gray, promoted.
Both with rank from the 21st of Nov. 1-t. Lieut. Walter S. Hotchkiss to be Captain, vice Sterling honorably di-charged.
20 Lient, Frank 11. Whiting to be 1st Lieut., vice Hotchkiss, promoted
Both with rank from the 29th of Nov.
SD BATTERY.
William C. Brecher of Derby, to be 2d Lieut . with rank from the 2d day of November, to fill an orignal vaneaney.
2dl Lient, Nelsou B. Gilbert to be 1st Lieut., with rank from the 9th day of Nov., to till an original vacancy.
einlly remember his bearing at the battle of Dru- ry's Bluff. It was after our second stand at the
us in like carnage from our exposed flanks, when a hundred of the regiment were caught in that storm and rain of ball and fell into the enemy's hands. I had never seen such a martial figure and look before. I thought if the War God had come down in the form of men, and Mars had become incarnate, he would have found a family resem- blanee in Col. Stedman.
But more than of his valor, do I love to think of his virtues. llis voice was not the loud trumpet of war, but those silver tones which the eur of friendship could gather in, and which conte back from the grave in still sweeter echoes. These virtues were his crowning excellencies while living; they make his memory sacred when dend. The vices of the camp did not tarnish him. The leprosy was all around him, but it spared him. Ilis integrity was rooted fast. It stood like the monarch of the forest, while the weaker fibre of other growth yielded to the tem- pest and fell.
This young life, so eventful, so full of promise and bursting with new hopes, was cut off by a random blow. But I can not tell you how gloont gathered in the darkness of that fatal evening, and how the morning light, which broke upon the dying man, brought night to ns. He lay in his own test, within sound of the enemy's guns. with his face turned towards their lines, but his eyes turned heavenward. His staff were about him, and others from the Eleventh. The tide of life ebbed away gently at the last. The soul was free and the body at rest. But the soil which drank that blood is ours and shall never be alienated The cause which is glorified by such sacrifices, shall never be abandoned. D. F.
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[JANUARY,
Erastus M. Leffingwell of Bozrah, to be As-i-t- ant Surgeon, with raak from the 29th of Nov., to fill an original vacancy.
5TH REOIMENT.
1.t Lieut. James Stewart, Jr., to be Captain, vice Chapman, transferred to Invalid Corps.
2] Lieut. Chas. W. Wakeley to be Captain, vice Packer mustered out, term expired.
ed Lient. Harlan P. Rugg to be Captain, vice Chiney mustered out, term expired.
2d Lt. Isaac Killum to be Captain, vice Smith mustered ont, term expired,
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2dl Lient Albert L. Gavitt to be Captain, vice Doyle mustered out, term expired.
2d Lient. Michael Donovan to be Captain, vice Dibble mastered ont, term expired. .
Sergt. James Butterfield to be 1st Lient. vice Stratton mustered ont, term expired.
Sergt. James P. Henderson to be 1st Lieut., vice Raymond mustered out, term expired.
Q. M. Sergt. Wesley HI. Botsford to be 1st Lt., vice Covey, discharged.
Sergt. Napoleon J. Stone to be 1st Lieut., vice Reynolds, discharged.
Sergt. Dennis Beach to be Ist Lient., vice Johu- son, promoted.
Sergt. Herbert D. Redfield to be 1st Lient., vice Carter, discharged.
2d Lieut. Perry P. Wilson to be 1st Lieut., viee Parington mastered out, term expired.
Sergt. Albert C. Burdick to be Ist Lieut., vice Hewison, discharged.
Sergt. Elisha R. Starr to be 1st Lient., vice Stewart, promoted.
All with rank from the 17th of Nov.
7TH REGIMENT.
Ist Lieut. John B. Yonng to be Captain, vice Bacon mustered ont, term expired.
2d Lieut. Henry B. Gill to be Captain, vice Burns mastered ont, term expired.
2d Lient, Morton A. Taintor to be 1st Lieut., vice Barker, killed in action.
Sergt. Major Willard Austiu to be 1st Lieut., vice Young, promoted.
1st Sergt. Benjamin A. Hill to be 1st Lient., vice Hayden, discharged.
Ist Sergt. Win. 11. Pierpont to be 1st Lieut., vice HIatch mustered out, term expired.
Private Albert MI. Holdeu to be 2d Lient., vice Lee killed in action.
Sergt. Dennis O'Brien to be 2d Lient., vice Merriam, died of wounds.
Sergt. Albert W. Burgess to be 2d Lieut., vice Taintor, promoted.
Sergt. Andrew H. Kinney to be 2d Lient., vice Gill, promoted.
All with rauk from the 29th of Oct. STUI REGIMENT.
1st Lient. Engene Emmons Graves, 13th C. V. to be Captain Sth C. V., with rank from the 26th of Nov., vice HIall, killed in action.
9TU BATTALION.
Rollin MeNeil of New Haven, to be Surgeon, with rank from the Isth of Nov., vice Gallagher mistered ont, term expired.
Capt. John G. Healey to be Lieut. Col., with rank from the 22d of Nov., vice Fitzgibbons nis- tered out, term expired.
10TH REGIMENT.
Asst. Surgeon Chas. A. Hart to be Surgeon, with rank from the 2d of Nov., vice Porter mins- tered out.
Seret. John S. Bartlett to be Ist Lieut.
Sergt. Brainard Smith to be Ist Lient., vice Peck, declined commission.
1st Lient. George II. Brown to be Captain, vice Brewster, honorably discharged.
All with rank from the 7th of Nov.
William HI. Trowbridge of Stratford, to be 1st Asst. Surgeon, with rank from the 20th of Nov., vice Ilart, promoted.
11TH REGIMENT.
Major. Randell Rice to be Lient. Col., with rank from the 30th of Nov., vice Mougling, deceased. Capt. Chas. Warren to be Major, with rauk fromn the 17th of Nov., vice Rice, promoted.
12TH REGIMENT.
Ist. Lieut and Adit. James E. Smith to be Capt. vice Lowell. killed in action.
2d Lieut. John Mullen to be Ist Lient, and Ad-
jutant, vice Smith, promoted.
Both with rank from the 2d of Nov.
Sergt. Major Chas. W. Coe to be Ist Lieut., vice Bulkley, kaled in action.
1st Fere. Henry Gibbons to be Ist Lieut., vice Phelps, killed in action.
Both with rank from the 15th of Nov.
Lient. Col. Geo. N. Lewis to be Colonel, vice Peck, killed in action.
Maj. Sidney E. Clarke to be Lieut. Col., vice Lewis, promoted.
Capt. Leonard A. Dickinson to be Major, vice Clarke. promoted.
All with rank from the 23d of Nov.
13TH REOIMENT.
1st Lieut. W'm. F. Norman to be Captain, vice Comstock, promoted.
1st Lient. Newton W. Perkins to be Captain, vice Sprague, promoted.
21 Lieti. Louis Beckwith to be Captain, vice Tislale, resigned.
2d Lient. Everett S. Dunbar to be 1st Lient., vice Ripley. promoted.
ed Lient. John M. Lyman to be Ist Lieut., vice M ner. dismissed.
2d Lieut. Frederick N. Stanley to be 1st Lieut. and Adjutant, viee Whittlesey, resigned.
All with rank from the 19th of Oct.
15TH REGIMENT.
1st. Lient. Herman B. French to be Captain, vice Smith, deceased.
French, promoted.
2d Lient. Philip C. Rand to be 1st Lieut., vice Thompson. deceased.
Serut. Major Chas. F. Harwood to be 2d Lieut. vice Bissell. promoted.
Sergt. George M. Beach to be 2d Lieut., vice Rand, promoted.
All with rank from the 9th of Nov.
20TH REGIMENT.
2d Lieut, Wellington Barry to be 1st Lieut., vice Foley, promoted.
Seret. C. Myron Talcott to be 1st Lient, and Adjutant, vice Du Bois, honorably discharged. Both with rank from the 14th of Nov.
21ST REGIMENT.
Asst. Surgeou Neheutiah Nickerson, 16th Coun. Vols. to be Surgeon 21st C. V., with rank from the 8th of Nov., vice Lee mustered our, term ex- pired.
1st Lient. Cyrus W. Cook to be Captain, viee Spittle. promoted.
Ist Lient. George W. Shepard to be Captain, vice D. D. Brown, discharged.
2d Lieut. Charles Fenton to be 1st Lieut., vice Cook, promoted.
1st Sergt. Conrtland G. Stanton to be Ist Lt., vice Shepard, promoted.
1st Sergt. Dyer A. Clarke to be Ist Lieut., vice Fowler, discharged.
All with rank from the 9th of Nov., 1864.
COL. T. W. CamLi. and Capt. Win. Wright, of the 9th Regiment, are dishonorably discharged from the service of the United States, for disobe- dience of orders and neglect of duty in failing to prepare rolls and records of their command-, as directed by circular No. 36, of May 2, 1864, from the War Department, thus working prejn- dice to the interest of the enlisted men under their command.
2D LIEUT. WM. B. PEASE, of New Haven, is pro- moted to first Lieut. in the Sth U. S. Infantry, (colored.) He has earned promotion hy courage I aud efficiency.
EDWARD DOWNING, of New Haven, enlisted Dee. 19th. Ili- father and two brothers have died in the service. Que brother still remains in the 1st Connecticut Artillery.
WM. MARBLE, of Manchester, enlisted as a pri- vate in the 7th Connecticut, served three years, and was monstered out as 1st Lientenant. He lins received a commission as Captain in the same regiment.
CAPT. WHITE, of the 15th, promoted to be Colo- nel of the loth regiment, cannot be mustered in ag such, under army regulations, on account of the small number of men in the 10th. Cxpt. White is a thoroughly educated and accomplished officer.
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