The Connecticut war record, 1863-1865, Part 42

Author: Morris, John M., ed
Publication date: 1863
Publisher: New Haven : Peck, White & Peck
Number of Pages: 886

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At Camp, nenr Stevensburg. Va, Jan, al, 1864, Second Lientenant Edward W. Hart, Co. E, 14th gallant dead !

Connecticut Volunteers, aged -.

MESSES. EDITORS :- Again the oll 14th mourns the loss of one of its best and noblest officers. At it was my fortune to be associated and intimately acquainted with the deceased. I cannot refrain from writing a few lines, expressive of the feeling of his regiment towards him.

poral and mustered into the United States service his regiment Aug. 25th, and has since followed the fortunes of the noble, ill starred regiment to which he was attached, accompanying it in all its

stained battle fields. Fredericksburg, Chaneel.

By order of Colonel SAMUEL Ross, Com'dg Reg't. HORACE G. JI. FARR, let It. and Adjt., 20th C. V. I.

nior officers, and commanded the respect and obe- dience of those under his command.

Ife was in every battle, reeonnoisance. scout, campaign and march in which this Regiment par- ticipated. His personal gallantry at Chancellors- ville and Gettysburg forms a proud memoir in our history.

The gallant officer, the generous and unflinel- ing friend and companion of our battles, toils and deprivations, having escaped death on many a battle field, has yielded up life by disease!

Men of the 20th! imitate the history of the

The following proceedings of the officers of our Regiment, on this lamentable event, will be made a perpetual reeord in orders.

WITFREAS :- In obedience to the summons of our Great Commander, our brother officer, Ist Lieutenant Edward A. Denlittle, of Co. "K." 20th Connecticut Volunteers, has leit the field of his earthly services and sacrifices, therefore, Resolved, That we deeply feel and lament the loss of Lieutenant Doolittle, and pay cheerful tribute to the many manly attributes of character which he possessed. Noble

Lient. Hart was from Madison, in our State, son of one of its most prominent citizens, Responding i without ostentation, faithful beyond any influence of fear or |to the President's eall in 1869, he enlisted as pri- ' favor, and patriotic without desire of praise, he had endeared hin self to us all.

Frelred, That we tender to the afflicted relatives of the decrased our most sincere sympathies, with the assurance as such, Aug. 23d. 1862. He left the State with ; that we will cherish his memory, and prize his example, so long as we live to prosecute the cause in which he sacrificed his life.

Ile was made Sergeant Feb. 4th, 1863, and Second Lieutenant in October of the same year. His promotion should and would have been more prompt, save for an unfortunate circumstanee (in which he had no part) which prejudiced the form-

and immediately commissioned Sergeant Hart as

The funeral of Capt. Edward L. Porter, of the 18th Connecticut Regiment, killed at Winchester, Virginia, June 15th, took place at New London, on Tuesday, the 25th of November.

Edward C. Blakeslee, son of Mr. R. Blakeslee, Jr., of New Haven, who fell at the storming of Fort Wagner, on the 8th of August last, was buried, with appropriate Chinreh solemnities, in the cemetery at Plymouth. He was the second son whom his father had given to his country, and both were among the bravest and best who have fallen in defense of their country's liberties. Edward was a member of Colonel Hawley's Regi- ment. the 7th ; he had fought in four well con- tested battles, was beloved of bis comrades for his ! generons and courageons nature, and his body was by them sent home to be buried in the family lot. Ilis age, when he fell, was twenty. Green grow the turf above him !- Litchfield Enquirer.

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THE CONNECTICUT WAAR RECORD.

[JANUARY.

C"A brave mother sends us the following | At the battle of Chancellorsville they both bore ' themselves with distinguished bravery ; but though in situations of great peril they escaped unhurt.

tribute to one of the five sons she has sent into the army.

Capt. Fowler's connection with that fight de-

The spirit of the boy is manifest from his own ! serves, however, more particular notice. When words, penned a short time before he was killed. |we were ordered to march, he had just recovered " There is to be, I suppose, no more rest for souliers , from severe illness. But his feeble health he till this rebellion is erushed. It may be that many would not allow as a reason for remaining in the rear. Unable to walk, he was borne for many . will fall in the coming struggle, I may be one-[ days in an ambulance toward the battle field. but if I fall, I shall die sustaining the honor of my ; There, at the head of his company, he held with country and a righteous enuse."

them and the regiment a most exposed and danger- ons position, until long after the retreat of the other regiments of the Brigade.

Soon after the battle Capt. Fowler was pro- Imoted to the Lieutenant Coloneley of the Regi- ment, made vacant by the instant death of the lamented WALTERS, who fell only a few paces in rear of the position occupied by the company of Capt. Fowler, In the absence of Col. Noutr, home wounded from Chancellorsville, Lieut, Col. FOWLER commanded the regiment from his appoint- ment, till he fell at its head, leading them with distinguished courage and coolness amid terrifie carnage and fire.

This is the Military History of these two fallen heroes. Connectient, on all her lofty record in this war, can point to none more deserving of a Tried, and bravely serving, in many conflicts, ever ready at the call of their country, flinching from no duty or danger, Fairfield County may proudly point to them as pattern soldiers.

We know, brethren of Fairfield County, that no words from ns are needed to rouse in your bosoms the ready tribute of esteem and gratitude to these two robiers who came out so lately from their bones on this lofty mission. The vast assemblage, Mother ! shall we meet him In that Ilome above ? He is waiting for thee- For a Mother's love. the imposing ceremonies attending the obsequies of that gallint soldier of two wars, whose body was so fortunately found, marked with emphatic expression the sentiments of regret and admiration DAVID. of his fellow citizens in Danbury. They were noted by us with exulting pride. We felt them as a like honorable to his townsmen, a just tribute to From the Seventeenth Regiment. FOLLY ISLAND, S. C .. } Nov. 10th, 1863. the memory of the gallant dead, and a feeling utterance of a whole community, of earnest inter- est in those who fare the perils of our vocation. Conld the anxious search of that committee of To the Citizens of Fairfield County :- . lis citizens, so promptly and feelingly sent out to The constant movement of our regiment after look for the remains of Col. FowLER, have been the battle of Gettysburg, on long and wearyyome equally fortunate, we know that the people of marches, our reduced and enfeebled condition, and Norwilk woukl have been forward to honor the re- continued work on arrival here, have delayed an mains of that other fallen comrade with no less appropriate call on you to join with us in publicly marked and distinguished expressions of her expressing our sense of the great common box admiration and estrem. He was not forgotten. reavement which came upon the regiment and the That earnest people who sent to this regiment two county, in the loss on that field of Liest, Col. Ene fall companies, and so many others to different DOUGLASS FOWLER of Norwalk, and Capt. JAMES E. commands, does not forget her sons. MOORE of Danhury.

To us who have come out to the battle-fields of !! They both fell in the fight of the first day, our country to die, if needs be, unmourned, it is a The one gallantly leading his company, and the precious feeling that the people at home do not other the regiment, into an mequal contest with forget us while living, or when we fell. It is a the overpowering forces of the enemy. Roth glorious privilege to fight for a great and righteons were instantly killed.

purpose, without any other hope than its success. | from the beginning, and as a whole, will comprise The body of Capt. Moore was found by his But it is, at the same time, sweet to know, that | a complete and authentic record of the important brother and borne to his home ; that of our brave whether we survive or perish, those for whom we ; services in this gigantic struggle, of the heroic sol- Lieut. Col. could not be recognized among the peril our lives value our work of hardship and masses of the buried slain.

The patriotism and gallantry of both had been Thethren around the firesides at home, we leave tried on many a battle field. Capt. Moore was a the memories of all our brave dead in your hands Every intelligent citizen of Connecticut should l'ubli-hed monthly, at New Haven, Conn., by wwworn army of the Potomac, we feel that no | Pick, Wine & PECK. Price, $1.00 per annum, in advance. Standard Bearer in the war with Mexico, and We have yet a great work to do in the field, obtain the War Record for perusal and preservation. bore the banner of his country to her capital on When in the ranks of the gallant, battle torn and the outbreak of the rebellion. Both bd compi. nies of Volunteers in the three months' service, dehonor tell from us on the unblemished record and fought at the first battle of Bull Run with dis. ot our State and Country. We are now here in tinguished gallantry.

amother fiell, hoping we may still so bear our- Capt. Fowler afterwards enlisted a company and selves in beating back the rebellion from this joined the Expedition of Burnside into Beannke place of its birth, that we may yet more deserve Sound, and was in many of the battle- under that the welcome approval of our people. Exposure gallant leader. Receiving an honorable discharge and the battle field may sweep many of us away. he returned home.

We ack of yon always to preserve green ihr When the call was made by the President for memory of those of us who die deserving well of the first three hundred thousand Volunteers, they their country.

both recruited companies, Capt. Moore from Pan-| With great respect in behalf of the Officers of

. bury, and Col. Fowler from Norwalk, and joininthe 17th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, this regiment. As Captains of companies, hath! faithfully executed their duties, and were marked, and prominent among the officers of the regiment.

W. Il. NOGLE, Colonel. A. Il. WILcoxSON, Licut. Colonel. HENRY ALLEN, Captain Co. F.

THE CONNECTICUT WAR RECORD.

JANUARY, 1861.

** All communications should be addressed to "THE Cox- NECTICUT WAR IICORD," New Haven, Conn.

"We are fighting not for an Administration -little souls talk of parties, or presidents, or administrations now; not for the negro, though his emancipation is the Godlike work of making four millions of inen; not for the restoration of our whole government, though that will make all tyrants of Europe tremble; but for the world. This contest is not between the North and the South merely, it is between freedom and despot- ism, between Satan and God."-Moses Smith, Chaplain 8th C. V.

CES" We issue the January number of the War

We can but feel that it is approaching the ideal which we had formed at the outset. The gener- ous support of the people, and the encouraging letters which we receive from all quarters, will stimulate us to increased exertion in our noble work.

We cordially thank our unknown friend and eo-worker who sends us from Norwich several corrections of our list of Army Officers from the 2d Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, and also for the valuable aid which his list of Officers of the Third will afford to the diligent and able author of the history of the Three Months' Vol- unteers.

We gratefully acknowledge the receipt of a number of letters of soldiers sent us by their friends. We regret to postpone the publication of several, but hope to make room for them in our next number.

THE CONNECTICUT WAR RECORD, A MONTHLY JOURNAL,

Established to collect and preserve, in a permanent form, for perpetual remembranee, the record of the services of Connecticut, in the present great struggle for the Union and Nationality, will con- tain, monthly, fresh and regular correspondence from all Connectient regiments, and a sketch of what we at home are doing for the war and onr gallant soldiers.

It will also contain, in successive numbers, an accurate history of

EVERY CONNECTICUT REGIMENT,

chers and the noble people of our gallant State. This work, no History of the war, and no other pub- leation is doing, or can do.

Address all letters invariably to TIIE CONNEC- TICUT WAR RECORD, Nuo Haven, Conn.

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ON THE DEATH OF WALSTEIN GOODYEAR. Written to his Mother. For his country's good, Freely he has given Up his life on earth, . For a life in Heaven, Thongh his form is lying In the quiet grave, Yet with God he liveth Who his spirit gave.

Friends his grave have strowed With the sweet fresh flowers- Friendship's last sweet tribute In this world of ours.

In the Saviour's presence, . High in glory now, He is singing praises Where the Seraphs bow. Robes of white all spotless- Crowns of gold are his- Lyres of Heavenly sweetness In that Home of bliss.

memory embalmed in the hearts of her people. [ Record with much satisfaction and pleasure.

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For the Connecticut War Record. Record of Events.

Dec. 29. Slight naval engagement in Mat- agorda Bay, Texas.

Dec. 30. Successful cavalry skirmish near Washington, N. C.

Dec. 30. Capture of a squad of the 10th Conn. at St. Augustine, Fla.

Jan. 1. Capture of 35 guerrillas near Bay- market, Va.

Jan. 3. 280 National soldiers overpowered and captured at Jonesville, West Va.

Jan. S. Repulse of the enemy from Peters- burgh, West Virginia. Failure of the rebel raid in the Shenandoah Valley.

Jan. 10. Gallant Repulse of Moseby in Loudon Co., Va., by Major Cole.

Jan. 13. A national force sent from Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoras, to pro- tect United States citizens and their prop- erty.

Jan. 14. Federal raid into Richmond and | eal and moral, of the National army, is far Westinoreland Counties, Va. Capture of greater than that of the Confederates, and the rebel Gen. Vance and 150 prisoners near the loyal heart of the North beats high with hope, confidence and courage. On the other hand, the resources of the South are serious- Temsville, East Tenn. Repulse of the Con- federate cavalry at Bealton, Va.

Jan. 15. Heavy skirmishing between Fos- ter's and Longstreet's cavalry at Dandridge, East Tenn. Repulse of guerrillas at Culpep- per, Va.

Jan. 25. Federal raid up the James River. Destruction of large quantities of provisions. Repulse of the Confederate cavalry at Ath- ens, Ala.

Jan. 27. Enemy's cavalry defeated at Fair Gardens, East Tenn. Capture of two guns and 100 prisoners. Rebel cavalry repulsed at Florence, Ala.

Jan. 28. Reconnoisance of Gen. Palmer to Tunnel Hill, Ga. Capture of a company of Rebelcavalry. Mysterious withdrawal of Gen. Johnston.

Jan. 29. Capture of 150 National soldiers at Scottsville, Ky., by guerrillas. Repulse of the enemy at Tracy City, Tenn., by a com- pany of the 20th Conn.

Jan. 30. Severe fighting below Williams- port, Md. Part of a Federal supply train captured. Evacuation of Petersburgh, West Va., by the National forces.

Jan. 1-30. Continued and gradual bom- bardment of Charleston by Gen. Gillmore.

For the Connecticut War Record. Review of Events. NUMBER SEVEN.

rebellion is thoroughly broken. Much, in- deed, has been accomplished. The loyalty of Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, is now no longer doubtful. Elections under the au- thority of the United States have been or- dered in Louisiana and Arkansas, and these States are contributing largely in filling up the ranks of the National army. Arkansas alone, since the occupation of Little Rock, last September, has furnished six theusand men. The loyalists of Texas, as far as is possible, are enrolling themselves on the side of the Union. Fifty thousand negroes have been armed, organized and sworn into the service, and Port Iludson, Fort Wagner and Moscow have triumphantly proved their manhood and valor. The strength, numeri-

hansted by three successive conscriptions.

unequaled magnitude and carnage in the annals of modern history-it is found that the Confederate leaders have not only not lost hope or courage, but that they actually next campaign. The mysterious disappear- ance of Gen. Johnston from the front of Chattanooga, the establishment of Long- street in Eastern Tennessee on the left flank of Gen. Grant's army, his reported reinforce- ment and advance towards Knoxville, the great activity of the Confederate cavalry along the Blue Ridge -- all these movements indicate an intention to re-commence hostili- ties, and he mistakes them greatly who thinks them to mean despair or irresolution.

What may be the strategical plan which comprehends these various operations is not known to us, nor is it proposed to indulge in theories. Time will soon give the solu- tion.

Meanwhile Gen. Grant has not been idle. He has just finished a complete survey of his vast department. His cavalry have been constantly active and always victorious. Railroad communications have been opened from Nashville through to Chattanooga and ly impaired, their currency worthless, their greater facilities are thus open for establish- railroads worn out, and their population ex- fing at the latter place an extensive depot of supplies and materials of war.

Besides it is gratifying to know that the

But one looks in vaiu for any diminution in the spirit or resolution of the Confederate. earnestness of the General Government does leaders. Not one word of compromise or' not abate. Every possible effort is made to surrender has passed their lips, and the virus obtain recruits and especially to secure the of treason still fills their hearts. The Con-'te-enlistment of the veteran soldiers, and federate Congress has voted to retain for the thus far these efforts have been remarkably whole war all their soldiers, whose terms of successful. Moreover, a draft for a half a enlistment would soon expire, whether they million of men, under a new and more strin- will or no, and also to sweep into the army gent conscription law, is put down for the every white male person capable of bearing next tenth of March, to fill up all deficien- arms, whether he has furnished a substitute cies. The National army will thus take the or not. This vote wants but the sanction of field next Spring under very favorable aus- President Davis to become law. Let no one pices, and the campaigns of eighteen hun- beguile himself with the belief that these : drel and sixty-four should be final and de- despotie measures are the signs of weakness ; cisive, and should establish the supremacy of and desperation alone. They are also the the Union over the entire Confederacy.

marks of a wonderful determination, and success would amply justify them.

For the Connecticut War Record.

The Twelfth --- (Regimental History.)

Nor is it the right of any man to assert ! that brilliant and sagacious combinations on ! Early in the Fall of '61 Gen. Butler, au- the part of the Confederate generals may thorized to receive one regiment from each not succeed in postponing the triumph of the New England State except Rhode Island, Union for another year. One thing is cer -¡ persuaded his old friend, Henry C. Deming, tain : After three years of war-a war of Mayor of Hartford, to accept the Colonelcy

Let no one suppose that the war is nearly ended or that the military strength of the propose to take the initiative and open the

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of the " Charter Oak Regiment," afterwards the Twelfth from Connecticut, and papers the Commissary, and turkeys given by the authorizing it were issued from the State Goverment, so that by the last of September several recruiting offices were opened in dif- ferent parts of the State. The object of the expedition then fitting out by Gen. Butler proved to be the capture of New Orleans,

With Christmas came turkeys issued by Soldiers' Aid Society of Hartford. So the men enjoyed it.

Night before New Years was one of the coldest on record. " Do you remember it ?" was asked of a Lieut. two years after. "I guess I do," he replied, " I was officer of the the most noted city in the limits of the re- guard that night, and forty five out of sixty- bellion.

six of our tents blew down and we had to The "Pine Tree State," the "Granite State," the "Green Mountain Boys," the "Bay State," and the "Charter Oak," were to be the names of the several regiments. The " Colt Guards," Co. A, and the "Deming Guards," Co. C, were recruited in Hartford. The "Peck Rifles," Co. B, the " Bushnell take refuge in a barn." The tents were of the best kind, Sibley-James' patent-cach containing a neat sheet-iron stove. Gen. Butler inspected the regiment and Gov. Buckingham and Staff reviewed it in Janu- ary. Unlike other State Regiments the Twelfth was equipped through Gen. Butler Rifles," Co. F, and the "Patnam Guards," [ by the United States. The dress parades attracted considerable attention, and often the parade ground was thronged with spec- tators. The regiment attended church in Hartford, one stormy Sunday afternoon. It escorted the Eleventh to the depot when they left the State. The officers were in- vited to a reception at Col. Deming's House

Co. I, were from New Haven, The "Lyon Rifles," Co. G, from Willimantic ; the " Col- burn Guards " from Collinsville, now Co. HI ; Co. E from Norwalk, Co. K from Stoning- ton, and Co. D from New London, had no other title, unless the latter were " New Lon- don County Blues." Co. A, with a dozen men, put up the first tent on a pleasant side !in Hartford, and Co. Il were treated to a hill, owned by Mr. Hamilton, two miles east of Hartford, Nov. 18, and all but two com-

sleigh rile and supper by the people of Col- linsville. The measles prevailed extensively panies were on the ground and mustered in-fin the regiment during the winter, and the to the United States service by Lieut. Ipatients were admitted to the Hartford Hos- Chamberlain, 14th U. S. Infantry, between ; pital until it was full. Only two deaths oc- the 18th and 20th of November. The first curred. While in Camp Lyon we were dress parade was held on the Ist of Decem-paid off by the State, and Gen. Butler ad- ber. Guards were posted and all the details 'vanced one month's pay on account of the `of camp life immediately entered into. Co. U. S. The officers were mu-tered into the K came into camp last, Dee. 2d, with forty . United States service on the Ist of January, men ; Co. B brought seventy-five, Co. F six-, 1862, and were paid np to that time. About ty-five. Capt. Braley, Co. G, recruited more ; the Ist of February the Chaplains' Commis- than a company and turned over some of hisision presented the Twelfth with a chapel men to fill up others. Col. Deming pre- tent, which was used while the regiment was sented Capt. Braley a sword in appreciation , at Camp Lyon for its legitimate purpose. of liis energy in enlisting men. .

1 singing school and Lyceum were established. On the 24th of February we received or-

The winter of '6I and '02, it will be re- membered, was exceedingly cold and icy, but , ders to march, and Sunday night, Feb. 26th, these soldiers went into their tents and lived the last dress parade was held in Camp Lyon, there all winter in spite of coll, snow, or fat which the Chaplain commended the regi- ice. The camp was named after Connecti -; ment and country in peril to the mercy of cut's noble son, Gen. Lyon, and was very Almighty God. finely located. A broad fieldl on the South- west gavo ample ground for drill, and hard. ' the Twelfth on leaving Hartford : ly a day passed withont the regular company ! and battalion drills and dress parade. If; thero was snow it coull be trod down, and on the ice men learned to stand and to march. No regiment has left Con. so well drilled as the Twelfth. Lieut. Col. Colburn was enthusiastic in the drill. His experience in the State Militia, and as Major of the 2d Conn. Vols,-three months-fitted him weil for his post. Sometimes he was so engaged as not to hear the recall. The men usually heard it.

C'ol. Ilenry C. Deming, Hartford. Lieut. Col. Ledyard Colburn, Derby. Major F. II. Deck, New Haven. Surgeon Win. R. Brownell, Hartford. 1st Asst. Surg. M. C. Leavenworth, Waterbury. 2d Asst. Surg. John Weleh, Winsted. Chaplain Jos. H. Bradford, New Haven. Adjutant Silliman B. Ives, Hartford. Quartermaster C. V. R. Pond, Hartford. Co. A-Capt. Geo. M. Lewis, Hartford. Ist Lieut. John Brennan, Hartford. 2d Lieut. Win. S. Bulkley, Hartford. Co. B .- Capt. S. H. Grannis, New Haven. Ist Lieut. Chias. O'Neil, New Haven.

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The Connecticut war record, 1863-1865, Part 42

Author: Morris, John M., ed Publication date: 1863 Publisher: New Haven : Peck, White & Peck Number of Pages: 886

Author: Morris, John M., ed
Publication date: 1863
Publisher: New Haven : Peck, White & Peck
Number of Pages: 886