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Aug. 30, 1862. Priv. 26. .... . M. O. August 17, 1863.
Aug. 25, 1862. Sgt. 26 ....... 2 Lt. M. O. August 17, 1863. U. S. N.
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' Northmen, come out ! Forth unto battle with storm and shout ! Freedom calls you once again, To flag, and fort, and tented plain ; Then come with drum, and trump, and song, And raise the war-cry wild and strong. Northmen, come out !
" Northmen, come out ! Forth unto battle with storm and shout ! He who lives with victory 's blest, He who dies gains peaceful rest. Living or dying, let us De Still vowed to God and liberty ! Northmen, come out !" -C. G. LELAND.
O N the third of May, 1861, President Lincoln issued his second call for troops, to serve for a period of three years unless sooner discharged. Recruiting had been vigorously kept up from the first outbreak of hostili- ties, and the enlistments were still freely tendered. The presence of the Governor, who seemed with wise foresight to anticipate the needs of the General Government, contrib- uted to keep up the public interest in securing volunteers. With tireless devotion he sought to second every appeal of the National Executive, and through him Connecticut, and Norwich too, were kept fully abreast of the calls from time
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to time made upon them for men. The reverse at Bull Run seemed to rouse anew the patriotic spirit of our citi- zens, while the zeal of private individuals and the liberal action of the town gave a fresh impetus to recruiting. The Fourth and Fifth Regiments had already been accepted by the War Department for three years, as the condition of receiving from the State the second and third three months' regiments, which were really in excess of Con- necticut's quota under the first call for troops. In the Fourth, Norwich was represented by Major Henry W. Birge, Assistant Surgeon Edwin Bentley, with some eighteen or twenty men scattered through the different companies. It was mustered into service at Hartford in June, 1861, and sent to Chambersburg and associated with General Patter- son's troops. In November it was stationed at Fort Rich- ardson, near Washington. In January, 1862, the regiment was changed from infantry into artillery ; and under the management of Robert O. Tyler, who was appointed Colonel, reorganized as the First Artillery. Major Birge was, meanwhile, transferred to the command of the Thir- teenth Regiment Infantry.
For the Fifth Regiment a fine Irish company had been . recruited from this city, called the Jackson Guards, under Captain Thomas Maguire. Some disagreement concerning the regiment's arms, and the appointment of subalterns, led to the revoking of Colonel Colt's commission, and the regiment was disbanded. The greater portion of the Nor- wich Company reorganized, and was accepted into the First Regiment Heavy Artillery of New York. Captain Ma- guire subsequently became Major in the New York service. William A. Berry, a member of the company, was chosen Captain, and after serving full three years, was killed at the siege of Petersburg. He was succeeded by Captain Thomas Scott, also of the Norwich company.
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The Fifth Regiment was then reorganized, and Orris S. Ferry commissioned Colonel. It was mustered into ser- vice July, 1861. In this regiment Norwich had no officers, and not over twenty privates. It was first sent to Virginia, where it served creditably in many sharp conflicts with the enemy. At the battle of Cedar Mountain, among those who fell bravely fighting, was Sergeant Alexander S. Avery, of Norwich, August ninth, 1862. At the hard fought bat- tle of Resaca, Ga., May fifteenth, 1864, out of ten men who had reënlisted from Norwich, four were reported wounded, - John G. Blake, Thos. W. Baird, Delano N. Carpenter, Stephen Corcoran.
On the fifteenth of August the Governor issued orders for receiving volunteers for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Regiments, a part of Connecticut's quota under the recent call of the President. Recruiting offices were opened by some of those who had served in the three months' campaign, and every effort by citizens and former soldiers was made to have Norwich well represented in the new regiments.
The Sixth Regiment received a company recruited mainly in Windham County, by Captain W. G. Ely of this city, who was appointed Lieutenant-colonel, vice Edward Harland, but was soon transferred to the command of the Eighteenth. The Quartermaster, and twelve enlisted Germans, were from Norwich. Alfred P. Rockwell of Norwich was ap- pointed, in June, 1864, to the colonelcy vacated by the death of Colonel Chatfield. Mr. Rockwell had previously served as Captain of the First Light Battery, C. V., and had been stationed on James Island, and other parts of the Carolina coast, cooperating in the siege of Charleston.
To the Seventh Regiment Norwich sent one company under Captain John B. Dennis, who had served three months in the Massachusetts Sixth. This was the first reg-
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ular company of three years' men that had gone forth from the city, proceeding to New Haven as its appointed place of rendezvous. It had become an old story to see men de- part for the scene of conflict ; the romance of the war had worn off, and it had now become a stern duty, about which men went without useless parade or boasting. The earnest feeling of the public had not changed, but it had sobered, and was less given to those manifestations which had marked the departure of the first troops for the war. Theo- dore Burdick and Gorham Dennis, lieutenants in this com- pany, were also from Norwich. The former, subsequently promoted to the command of a company, was killed at Fort Wagner, July eleventh, 1863. The regiment was under the command of Colonel Alfred H. Terry of New Haven, and was the first which landed on the soil of South Carolina. It served with distinction in the South, and was afterwards engaged upon the James River, and in the trenches before Petersburg. Captain Dennis and twenty of his company were taken prisoners in June, 1864, while guarding the picket line before that city. He was detained some months a prisoner, and, with others from Norwich, was among the Federal soldiers sent to Charleston to be placed within range of the guns of our batteries, in retaliation for the bombardment of the city by General Gilmore. Transferred, in the course of his captivity, to six different prisons, he, after one ineffectual attempt, finally made his escape with thirteen companions on the twenty-fourth of December.
In the Eighth Regiment Norwich was largely repre- sented, contributing nearly all the line officers, and most of the privates of Company D, with its Captain, John E. Ward. Tuesday, September fourth, this second regular company for three years' service left the city for the rendez- vous of the regiment at Hartford, where it was mustered in on the twenty-first of the month.
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Norwich had a deeper interest in this regiment than in any that had thus far been raised, as the following partial roster shows : -
Colonel. EDWARD HARLAND,
Previously Captain Company A, Third Regiment.
Adjutant. CHARLES M. COIT.
First Assistant-surgeon. DE WITT C. LATHROP.
COMPANY D.
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JOHN E. WARD,
Previously First Lieutenant Company D, Third Regiment.
Lieutenants.
JAMES R. MOORE, CHARLES A. BREED.
Sergeants.
JOHN MCCALL, CHARLES SHEPARD, AMOS L. KEABLES, JOSEPH E. FLETCHER.
The regiment left the State for Jamaica Plain, Long Isl- and, October seventeenth, where it was the first one to be visited by the committee representing the recently formed organization of " the Sons of Connecticut" in New York, by which it was presented with a handsome regimental flag. This regiment was in General Burnside's expedition to North Carolina, and bore with uncomplaining faithfulness the discomforts and perils of the voyage. On the seventh of January the fleet approached Roanoke Island, held by
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three thousand rebels under General Wise. The troops effected a landing in the night, and the next morning, shivering with cold and drenched with rain, prepared for battle. The Eighth was posted on an old road leading towards the right flank of the main battery, by which the enemy might turn the left of our advancing forces. The position was one of great importance, and was held with steady coolness, eliciting the approval of Generals Burnside and Foster.
On the eleventh of March came orders for an advance on Newbern. In this action the Eighth bore a leading part, moving by the flank, until reaching the open ground in front of the rebel works, where it was admirably formed into line by Colonel Harland, who ordered the men to fix bayonets, and then gave the word to charge. The regiment dashed forward on the double quick, and was the first to enter the enemy's works, and plant within them its own colors. Shortly after, in the siege of Fort Macon, the most arduous service fell upon this regiment, which it most cred- itably sustained. Two of the Norwich officers, after a few months of effective service, died, - Dr. De Witt C. Lath- rop, at Newbern, April, 1862, by illness produced by over exertion in the duties of his position ; and Lieutenant Breed in July, of fever, contracted while engaged in im- portant service on the Signal Corps. Ordered North in July, the regiment joined McClellan, and was in the battle's front at South Mountain and at Antietam, Colonel Har- land having now command of a brigade. In the latter con- flict, September seventeenth, 1862, the regiment conducted with great steadiness, leading in a charge, which resulted in taking a position of great importance, from which, after stubborn fighting and severe loss, they were forced to re- tirc. Colonel Harland took command of the division dur- ing the battle, General Rodman having fallen, and by his
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admirable handling of its disorganized regiments, reformed it, and put it at once in a posture of defense. The Eighth lost some valuable officers, and by its defiant courage and steadiness saved the fortunes of its army corps. The story of its splendid valor is in these words, which summed up its action in that bloody battle, " We faced the foe until half the regiment were shot down, and retired only when we were ordered." Among the slain was Lieutenant Marvin Wait, of Norwich. He was the first commissioned officer from the town that fell in battle. Enlisting when but nineteen, he left college and home to enter as a private his country's service ; he was soon promoted to be Second Lieutenant of Company A, and served as a member of the Signal Corps at the battle of Roanoke Island, on Burnside's flag-ship, and at the reduction of Fort Macon. A writer in one of the Norwich journals, speaking of his conduct at the battle of Antietam, says, " After his sword-arm had been disabled by a shot, he took his weapon in his left hand, and still pressed on, encouraging his men by his heroic fortitude." He was a noble specimen of the young men of culture and lofty patriotism that Norwich sent forth to the war. Brave and manly in his bearing, generous-hearted and beloved, he was one whose name is still fondly cherished, the history of whose self-sacrificing valor reflects a new honor on the town and commonwealth he represented in the Union ranks. Six months after the battle of Antietam, the Connecticut brigade, in which was the Eighth, was ordered to Falmouth, marching one hundred and seventy-five miles in twelve days. Here the regiment encamped, putting "their little dog tents upon the sticky red mud of Virginia, made smoky fires outside of wet wood, half cooked their scanty food, warmed and dried themselves as they could, standing by wretched fires in the rain, then spread their blankets on the soft mud and slept." But such sleep brought only rheu-
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matics and ill-temper, and led the men to vote Virginia mud and weather insufferable.
On December eleventh the preparations were complete for the fatal battle of Fredericksburg under General Burn- side. The Eighth volunteered to lay the pontoon bridge, and assisted by others accomplished speedily its task. On the thirteenth Colonel Harland took his position with his brigade below the town, while his own regiment served on the picket line, until the whole force was ordered to recross the Rappahannock. It fortunately sustained but slight loss, Connecticut troops suffering less proportionately, than any other State that had regiments engaged.
In the spring of 1863, the Connecticut brigade embarked for Newport News, and soon after the Eighth in conjunc- tion with it was called to take part in the siege of Suffolk. On the nineteenth of April occurred a brilliant episode, which added to the laurels of this already famous regiment. In company with a detachment of the Eighty-ninth New York, it was ordered to capture Fort Huger. The com- mand devolved on Colonel Ward. The two battallions were ferried in a small boat, with a canvas screen drawn round it to conceal the men, into proximity to the fortifications. As the boat grounded, the men leaped into the water, and making for the shore, paused only to rally about their offi- cers, then charged upon the enemy's works, and without firing a shot captured the battery,. planting their bullet-rent colors on the breast-works and marching off the rebel garri- son, placed them as prisoners on the gun-boat. The guns just taken, were quickly turned upon the rebel forces, that were seen swarming from the adjacent woods in order to recapture the position. The whole affair was one which showed the dash and cool well poised courage of the regi- ment, and ranks among the most brilliant of its achieve- ments.
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Colonel Harland was promoted Brigadier-general in April, 1863, well deserving the position, and becoming next to General Tyler, the ranking officer from Norwich. On the seventh of May, 1864, the regiment participated in the battle of Walthall Junction, Va., and sustained an aggre- gate loss of seventy-four officers and men. Colonel Ward, on whom the command of the regiment had devolved, was severely bruised with a shell ; Captain James R. Moore, now in command of Company D, disabled by a serious wound ; and Lieutenant Alfred M. Goddard, of Company B, mortally wounded. Young Goddard had returned from the Sand- wich Islands, where he was engaged in business, on pur- pose to enlist in the defense of his country. His ardent patriotism gave him no rest until he could return to his na- tive land, and share in the honors and perils of her defense against intestine foes. Hc received a commission as First Lieutenant in Company B, July, 1863, and was assigned to duty on General Harland's staff. Subsequently at his own request, he rejoined his company, and served in the ranks with distinction up to the time of his death. Of his courage on the day of the fatal battle, his Captain wrote, " He was so thoughtful and considerate, not rash or impetuous, but cool and collected, ready for any emergency, willing for every duty." In his grand young strength he fell fighting for his country, and by his death added another name to the list of those of whom Norwich had just reason to be proud. The regiment was complimented by Brigadier-general Burn- ham, for heroism in this action, and as it returned from the field was cheered by the whole brigade.
From the twelfth to the sixteenth of May the regiment was engaged in battle at Fort Darling, where the Union forces were repulsed ; and the gallant Captain McCall, who had won his promotion from a lieutenancy, for bravery at the capture of Fort Huger, was instantly killed by a shot
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from the enemy. "This young officer possessed all the prominent characteristics of a good soldier. He was cool, steady, prompt, and skillful." Enlisting as a private, his personal courage and military qualities gained him his posi- tion among the commissioned officers. The mortal remains of these two young men were brought to Norwich for in- terment. The city and military authorities, as well as the citizens generally, vied with personal friends in honors to the patriot dead. They fell in the full vigor of their young manhood, leaving behind them the record of a noble patriotism and brave service in the field.
In the advance upon Petersburg, in June, 1864, the regi- ment was again conspicuous. In the absence of Colonel Ward and Lieutenant-colonel Smith, the command devolved on Captain Charles M. Coit, of this city, a brave and effi- cient officer, subsequently made Lieutenant-colonel by bre- vet. In a charge made on the enemy's works, the regiment won the highest praise for its gallantry from General Smith, who, witnessing its action, said he " felt like giving a com- mission to the whole regiment that had done that gallant deed." In the assault upon Fort Harrison, in September, 1864, the Eighth, and three companies of the Twenty-first, headed the storming column, and charging across an open field, stopped only to reform, when with a shout they rushed into the ditch over the parapet, capturing the fort, and re- placing the Confederate flag with the standard of Connecti- cut. The regiment lost eight killed and sixty-five wounded ; among the latter were Lieutenants Foss and Keables of Norwich. In a further advance made under General But- ler, in October, some severe fighting took place, in which Captain Charles M. Coit, serving on the staff of the brigade commander, was severely wounded. The regiment main- tained its well-earned reputation for daring and fidelity to the end of the war, and was mustered out in Decem-
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ber, 1865, with a proud record for efficient service in the field.
To the Ninth Regiment, composed mostly of Irishmen, Norwich furnished a large part of Company H, called the Sarsfield Guards, recruited in this city. Silas W. Sawyer was chosen Captain, Thomas C. Lawler, First Lieutenant. The regiment was mustered into service at Lowell, Mass., and was thence ordered to New Orleans, performing three years of arduous duty in the regions bordering upon the Mississippi ; afterwards it participated with the army under General Sheridan, in the campaign up the Shenandoah Valley.
Norwich had thus contributed to the four regiments called for by the Governor in August of this year. Other companies were still recruiting in the city, but as yet none of them were full. A patriotic meeting of the citizens, pursuant to a call therefor, was held in Apollo Hall on Sep- tember sixteenth, to consider what measures could be adopted to facilitate the speedy filling up of these compa- nies, or their consolidation and prompt forwarding to the appointed rendezvous. Mr. John F. Slater was appointed chairman. Mr. Ebenezer Learned addressed the meeting " upon the importance of immediate action, and moved that the ' Patriotic Fund Committee' be instructed to appropri- ate the funds already in their hands in such a manner as they shall deem best calculated to promote the interest of the cause ; and when these are exhausted, to call in addi- tional installments, to meet the demands of the occasion." The motion, after brief speeches from Rev. J. P. Gul- liver, Messrs. H. H. Starkweather, Henry Bill, and John Breed, was unanimously carried. Under the impulse sup- plied by this meeting, the work of recruiting was pushed on more vigorously, and the companies, for which a limited number of enlistments had been secured, began to fill up.
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The Legislature was convened in October, and the terse and earnest message of the Governor set before the mem- bers the necessities of the national situation : -
"Instead of inquiring how much we have done," he said, " shall we not inquire what more can we do? It is a privilege to live in a day like this, to take a bold and energetic part in the conflict which is now raging between law and anarchy ; and dur- ing this revolution, which, in the onward progress of events is to accomplish the wise designs of an overruling Providence, to exert an influence which shall aid in advancing this nation to such a position of strength and moral power, that every citizen may safely, and fully, and speedily enjoy the blessings of free- dom. This is a high honor within our reach, a rich privilege which we may enjoy, and a solemn duty which God calls us now to perform."
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