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The Waterbury Street Railway Employees' Benefit association was organized June 2, 1895, with about forty-five members. The following officers were elected: President, James Smith; vice-presi- dent, John R. Davidson; secretary, Edward H. Blakeslee; treasurer, Melvin E. Stark.
Shop societies are organized among workingmen to provide a plan of systematic relief as a substitute for the growing practice of "passing the hat" in an emergency. The first known was organized in the Pratt & Whitney factory in Hartford, December 10, 1873. A uniform requirement of membership is employment in the factory. There are usually sick-visiting committees, on whose recommendation sick benefits are paid, and benefits are denied to those whose disability is due to intemperance or im- moral conduct.
The Employees' Aid association of the Waterbury Clock com- pany was instituted December 8, 1882. "One director from each of the four floors is chosen by the members on that floor, and these four, with the president, choose a fifth director at large." Its mem- bership averages about fifty, and its assessments and payments for the years 1887-1891 averaged $519.75 a year.
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The Waterbury Watch Factory Mutual Relief was instituted June 7, 1883. It admits women to membership. Its members num- ber over 100, and the amount collected and disbursed during the years 1887-1891 averaged $343 a year.
The Employees' Mutual Benefit association of the American Ring company was instituted September 22, 1885. Women are admitted. It has about 100 members, and it paid out in relief in the years 1887-1891 an average of $420.21 a year. The weekly assessment is ten cents for men and five cents for women. Benefits in case of illness are paid for ten weeks. The association is pros- perous, and at times the amount accumulated in the treasury allows of the passing over of several assessments.
The Rogers & Brother's Benevolent association was organized bout 1889, and continued for a time, but declined and ceased to exist.
The Clock Shop Tontine society was composed of employees in he case department of the Waterbury Clock company, but ceased o exist in 1893 after a short life.
CHAPTER LII.
AFTER THE REVOLUTION-FEAR OF A STANDING ARMY-THE TWENTY SIXTH REGIMENT-THE WAR OF 1812-THE EIGHTH COMPANY- REORGANIZATION-FLANK AND BATTALION COMPANIES-THE LONG PEACE-A DEGENERATED MILITIA-THE MEXICAN WAR-REORGAN IZATION IN 1847-COMPANY "H" IN 1854-THE WAR FOR THE UNION-WATERBURY COMPANIES-QUOTAS EASILY FILLED-REOR GANIZATION AFTER THE WAR-THE CONNECTICUT NATIONAI GUARD-COMPANIES "A" AND "G"-THE ARMORY-OFFICERS ANI PROMOTIONS-LATER CHANGES-BIOGRAPHIES-DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION-THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT.
T HERE is nothing in the history of this country during the period immediately following the war of the Revolution that is more astonishing at first thought, and yet more natural when carefully considered, than the popular dread and distrust of the soldiers. Organized as a standing army they were the symbol of tyranny and oppression, against which the country had just won an exhausting and a costly victory. Thc people came to look upon them from another point of view-nc longer as patriotic defenders, but as a menace to liberty and a bur. den upon the impoverished resources of the country. Men had not forgotten their services, but these services were obscured in their minds by the thought of their own poverty and the clamor for pay and pensions. Washington's suggestion that a life pension of hall pay be paid to every officer and soldier who had served through the war was made law by Congress in 1783. A few months later this was changed by an act which commuted the life-pay into five years full pay. This commutation act called forth a great outcry. A state convention was called at Middletown in December, 1783, to protest against it. Delegates from many towns appeared, and much indignation found expression, but the convention on the whole was a failure and was covered with ridicule. The occasion was given to young Noah Webster, then twenty-five years old, to defend the act and the Congress, and to denounce the short-sighted selfishness of the opponents of the law, in a series of essays in the Connecticut Courant under the name Honestus. A part of this ill-feeling toward the soldiers was due to their own acts. While the peace commis-
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sioners were disputing over the terms of peace, the soldiers were suffering actual want of food and clothes. There were acts of out- rage and pillage, and the lax discipline encouraged insubordina- tion. Congress even rose hastily and moved from Philadelphia to Princeton because some raw recruits of the Pennsylvania line, whose pay was long overdue, marched down from camp at Lancas- ter to seek redress and made a drunken hubbub before the state- house where Congress was sitting. Feeling was intensified by the establishment of the society of the Cincinnati, which was held up to abhorrence as the beginning of an order of nobility in America, and by the debates in Congress over the evils of a standing army threatened by the proposed land establishment of 896 men to occupy the posts along the western frontier. It ended in the dis- bandment by Congress of the few troops in its service, in June, 1784, only eighty men being retained for garrison duty at Fort Pitt and West Point, and the passage of an ordinance recommending the four states of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl- vania to raise 700 troops to garrison the frontier for one year. When, after the adoption of the constitution, Congress in 1788 came to listen to the report on the army, it consisted of 595 men and two companies of artillery numbering seventy-one non-commissioned officers and privates. This was the feeble organization which poli- icians and even patriots held up as a public enemy with which to frighten the people, for many years after the Revolution, until, with the coming on of war again, the public need made the soldier's opportunity.
A graphic account will be found in McMaster's "History of the People of the United States" of the beginnings of the nation under onditions of demoralized trade, depressed commerce, individual poverty, official weakness, disorganized finance and want of politi- al system. The war had cost some $140,000,000, nearly a third of which was still unpaid and existed as a public debt which seemed ppalling in view of the limited national resources. The popula- ion of the country was about three millions and a quarter. The opulation of Waterbury, which included the territory set off as Vatertown (in 1780), Plymouth (1795), Wolcott (1796), Oxford (1798), Middlebury (1807), Prospect (1827), and Naugatuck (1844), was at he beginning of the war 3526. At the close of the war, the popu- tion of Waterbury, without Watertown was about 3000; with its Id boundaries unchanged, it would have been about 6000. The art that Waterbury had borne in the support of the war with men nd money has been told in earlier chapters of this History. Most : its interest in military affairs for nearly thirty years to come,
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until a reorganization took place in 1815, was to centre in the Twenty-sixth regiment of the Second brigade, First division. The old Tenth of the same brigade still retained some members from Waterbury, Samuel Camp, captain in the Revolutionary war, being - lieutenant-colonel in 1790.
In 1793, Lieut .- Col. David Smith had risen to the rank of briga- dier-general, commanding the Eighth brigade, Fourth division, to which the Twenty-sixth now belonged, and Maj. Aner Bradley was lieutenant-colonel with William Leavenworth (2d) as major, and Isaac Bronson, paymaster. Some of these are frequent and honor- able names in the Revolutionary records of Waterbury. In the summer of that year, still another company was formed with Noah Baldwin as captain. The Tenth regiment was assigned to the Second brigade, Second division. William Leavenworth became lieutenant-colonel commanding the Twenty-sixth regiment in 1799, and in the year 1800 the regimental order issued by him for inspec- tion and review gives one of the rare glimpses to be obtained of the local military condition of those days immediately preceding and following the beginning of the century. The order is written in handsome script on paper in excellent condition, and follows a copy of the brigade order issued by Gen. David Potter of the Eighth brigade under date of August 4, 1800.
In pursuance of the foregoing order the officers and soldiers of the Twenty-sixth Regiment will assemble on the 22d day of September next at 9 o'clock forenoon in Waterbury near the house of John Kingsbury, Esqr., completely armed and equipped for inspection, review and exercise. And the Colonel requests that all officers commissioned and non-commissioned appear on days of exercise dressed in complete uniform and as a part of their uniform would recommend white Pantaloons and Bootees and would further recommend it to the officers of the several Com- panies to use their utmost influence with their men that they appear on days of exercise drest in national uniform and that they carefully inspect the arms & accou- trements of their men and that they pay the strictest attention to their government and discipline, instructing them in those parts of the exercise and manœuvres which are necessary in order to render the regiment most respectable.
Waterbury, August 18th, 1800.
WM. LEAVENWORTH, Lt. Col. Comd 26th Regt.
As in colonial days, all able-bodied men were subject to bear arms and constituted the active militia, the regularly drilled com- panies being the "trained " or "train bands." The state officers consisted of a captain-general, a lieutenant-general and a brigadier- general and a brigadier-major to each of the eight brigades. The officers wore blue coats faced with red, lined with white, white un- derdress, white buttons and a blue worsted knot on each shoulder. The men wore "white frocks and overalls." The light infantry men
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were distinguished by a black feather tipped with red, worn in the hat. In 1794, in addition to the infantry companies, there had been a troop of horse attached to the Eighth regiment of the Eighth bri- gade. It was composed of Waterbury and Watertown men, with Samuel Gunn as captain.
When Washington was once more called to the head of the army by the French alarm, a body of 5882 Connecticut militia was de- ached in 1794, for active service if necessary. In 1806, at the time of the English embargo, a detachment of 3420 was made, but was lismissed in 1809. When Bridgeport was threatened in the war of 1812, the Sixth and Eighth brigades were called upon to be in readiness.
When the war of 1812 broke out, John Buckingham was adjutant of the Twenty-sixth, Aner Bradley, Jr., paymaster, and J. M. L. Sco- rill, sergeant-major. James Brown commanded one Waterbury com- any, with Edmund Austin as lieutenant and Gideon Platt as ensign. Lemuel Porter, predecessor of Captain Brown, was major of the egiment the next year. John Buckingham and Aner Bradley were both commissioned by Gov. John Cotton Smith as captains of com- anies for the defence of the state, but as only one company was aised the command fell to Buckingham. The whole 3000 men aised in the state were to be divided into two brigades, under the ommand of Maj .- Gen. Solomon Cowles. The local company was hade the eighth company of the First regiment, Lieut .- Col. Timothy hepard, later Col. Elihu Sanford, First brigade. The men were rom Waterbury, Watertown, Bethlehem and Plymouth, and the ill roster (officers and privates) is as follows:
Captain, John Buckingham.
First Lieutenant, Joseph Bellamy.
Second Lieutenants, James M. L. Scovill,* Sheldon Hotchkiss.+
Ensign, Stevens Shelton.
Sergeants, Eli Thompson, Israel Williams,* Leveret Bishop,* Daniel Benham, oseph Tuttle.+
Corporals, Lewis Osborn (promoted sergeant), Isaac B. Castle, Benjamin S. elton,* Norris North .*
Musicians, George Lewis,“ Joseph Steel,* John Thompson, Butler Dunbar, ndrew Bradley.
Privates, sixty-nine in number:
William H. Allen, Orrin Austin, +
Joseph Beebe,*
Nathan Benjamin,
Reuben Bartholomew,
Primous Bennett,+
Abraham Blackman, Eldad Bradley, (promoted corporal),
* Those marked with an asterisk served only from August 3 or 13 to September 16 or 20, 1813, and those h a dagger only from September 8 to October 20, 1814. The others served during both periods.
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Isaac Bradley,
Reuben Hall,
Joseph P. Riggs,*
Jonathan Bradley,
Sherman Hall,*
Eaton Samson,*
Asa Bronson,
Lovet Hawley,
Ransom Saxton, +
Augustus Bronson,
Leonard Hecock,+
Stebbins Saxton,
Isaac Bronson, +
Chauncey Jerome,
Asa Scovill,+
Augustus Brown,+ Isaac Brown,*
Isaac Leavenworth,
Abijah C. Stoddard,
Ralph Brown,
Elisha S. Lewis,*
Mark Stone,+
Chester F. Buckley,
George Lewis,*
Mark Storme,*
Calvin Burwell,
Ransom Lewis,
Clark Thompson.
Isaac Byington, +
Horace W. Mather,*
Horatio Upson,
Ezra Canfield, +
Horace Mathews,*
John Upson,
Asahel Castle,
Florian Mathews,+
Peter Vanderbogart,t
Bethel S. Castle,
Ard Warner,
Levi Castle,
Miles Newton, (promoted corporal),
Arad W. Welton,
Seth Castle,
Isaac Nicholas, +
Eri Welton,
William H. Castle,
Austin Pierpont,
Spencer Wickem,*
Loammi Fenn,*
Luther Pierpont,
Leonard Wilcox,*
Jarvis Fitch,+
Seabury Pierpont,
Lewis Wirt,*
Shelton Gibbs,
Samuel Porter,
Amos C. Woodruff.+
David Hall,
Asher Pritchard,
There was considerable protest throughout New England, and denial of the right of the president to call out the militia and put them under command of a federal officer. This feeling existed in a very marked degree in this neighborhood. There was a large gathering of people assembled in Watertown to see Capt. Bucking- ham and his company off. For fear some inconsiderate word might kindle hostile feeling against the government, Capt. Buckingham refused to lead his men into the meeting-house to receive the bless- ing of the Rev. Mr. Griswold till the latter had promised to make no allusion in his remarks to the war. Most of the duty of these companies was done at New London.
In 1814, Waterbury men to the number of fifteen enlisted in the regular army and served about one year. During this war a corps known as the "volunteer exempts" was formed. Of the second regiment of this corps, Frederick Wolcott was colonel and Aner Bradley lieutenant-colonel. There was one company in Watertown, but none in Waterbury. Maj. Porter was promoted to the lieuten- ant-colonelcy of the Twenty-sixth in 1815, which in that day was the highest regimental office, and Aaron Benedict became adjutant. Those were the last promotions for Waterbury men under the old régime.
The total of the militia in 1813 , was 12,582, all active, none simply " enrolled." There were four divisions, each composed of two
* Those marked with an asterisk served only from August 3 or 13 to September 16 or 20, 1813, and those with a dagger only from September 8 to October 20, 1814. The others served during both periods.
Lyman Jerome,*
Joseph Scovill,+
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rigades and each brigade averaging about fifty companies. Water- ury's contingent belonged to the Eighth brigade, Brig .- Gen. Hin- han, Fourth division, Maj .- Gen. Taylor commanding. This great ody of men being difficult to handle, there was in 1815 one of those eriodical reorganizations in which relief was sought, generally in ain. The number of regiments was fixed at twenty-five, ten com- anies to a regiment, the number of brigades at six and the number f divisions at three, the law to take effect the following year. In ach regiment there was a grenadier or light infantry company; ter, two companies. There were five regiments of cavalry, each tached to a brigade of infantry, a regiment containing four troops ith fourteen privates in each. Then there was a brigade of artil- ry, two regiments of light and two of heavy artillery, and twenty mpanies of riflemen, each attached to some regiment of infantry. his formation continued, with the cavalry and artillery gradually minishing, until 1847. In the infantry, the light infantry com- any was designated the "flank " company and contained sixty-four ivates. Later there were two of them to each regiment. The hers were called "battalion" companies. Uniforms were no nger in vogue.
By this reorganization the Waterbury company founded in 1793 came the First Flank company of the Twenty-second regiment, cond brigade, First division, Maj .- Gen. Solomon Cowles com- anding. A second Waterbury company made the First Battalion mpany of the regiment. Brig .- Gen. John Brainard commanded e brigade and Col. Lemuel Porter the regiment. James Brown as captain of the Flank company; Gideon Platt, Jr., first lieutenant, d Samuel Root, ensign. Of the Battalion company, Bela Welton as captain, Pliny Sheldon, lieutenant, and Ransom Scovill, ensign. pt. Brown became lieutenant-colonel the next year and Capt. elton, major, with Ambrose Ives as surgeon. John Buckingham is appointed colonel of the Second regiment of riflemen, a position ich he held from 1816 to 1818. There was one company of rifle- en in Watertown, but none in Waterbury. In 1820 Waterbury was cluded in the broad district covered by the Fourth cavalry com- ny, and later in the district covered by the First horse artillery, t there were not many members of these organizations here. On pt. Brown's promotion to the lieutenant-colonelcy, he was suc- eded by Samuel Root. The lieutenants were Anson Sperry and thaniel R. Morris .*
* The records of the light infantry Flank company for many years are still carefully preserved and were ented to Company A, Second regiment, C. N. G., by Aner Bradley, into whose possession they had been :n by Lieut. George Pritchard.
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The non-commissioned officers and privates on May 1, 1817, were as follows:
Sergeants: Anson Sperry, Enos Warner, Horace Porter, Jesse Scott.
Corporals: Asahel Pritchard, Ransom Gibbs and Samuel Finch.
Fifers: David Gibbs, Samuel Hill.
Drummers: Samuel Cook, Charles Leonard.
Privates:
Samuel Adams,
David Hayden,
Roger Prichard,
Luther Allen,
Isaac Hine,
Chauncey Prindle,
Lyman Bradley,
John Hine,
Chauncey Root,
Anson Bronson,
Artemas Hoadley,
L. W. Scott,
Horatio G. Bronson,
Joseph Holt,
Mark Scott,
Isaac Bronson,
Philemon Holt,
Stephen Scovill,
Jesse Brown,
Horace Hotchkiss,
Amadeus Sperry.
Andrew Bryan,
Silas Hotchkiss,
Augustus A. Terrell,
Calvin Burwell,
Levi M. Marks,
Lamberton Tolles,
James Chatfield,
Ansel Merrell,
Daniel Tuttle,
Asahel Clark,
Garry Nettleton,
Hiram Upson,
Stephen Cowell,
Humphrey Nicols,
Erastus Warner,
John Downs,
Simeon C. Nicols,
Ransom Warner,
Selah Frost,
David Perkins,
Richard Worthington.
Van I. Frost,
Gaius Prichard,
In the following days of peace there is little to record save the election of officers. In 1818, W. R. Hitchcock was adjutant of the Twenty-second. In 1832, Chauncey Root had attained the colonelcy, with Enoch W. Frost, major. David B. Hurd worked his way up to the command of the regiment in 1838. Stephen Payne was lieuten- ant-colonel; L. C. Hall, major; A. P. Judd, adjutant; Graham Hurd, paymaster; the Rev. Jacob L. Clark of Waterbury, chaplain, and Daniel Porter, Jr., surgeon. The next year Col. Hurd went one step higher and became commander of the Second brigade. Merit Hem- inway of Watertown commanded the Sixth brigade. E. J. Porter reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1839, Levi Bolster in 1841, and Richard Welton that of colonel in 1844. Edwin C. Birdseye was lieutenant-colonel and O. Ives Martin, major. The staff con- sisted of Lucius P. Bryan, adjutant; Linus Birdseye, quartermaster; A. H. Martin, paymaster; the Rev. Allen Darrow, chaplain; Timothy Langdon, surgeon, and A. C. Woodward, surgeon's mate. The next year Elmore E. Downs was paymaster and the Rev. Jacob L. Clark, chaplain. Col. Welton resigned in 1846.
There were few regular drills by companies in those days, but twice a year the companies and once a year the regiments met for parade and inspection, in the fall and in the spring. The Twenty- second regiment met usually in Cheshire, Meriden or Waterbury, with headquarters at some tavern or inn. Each man must have
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eight cartridges, blank or weighing an eighteenth of a pound each, two flints, one priming-wire with brushes and one powder horn, in addition to the muskets, bayonets and knapsacks. The commis- sioned and non-commissioned officers held meetings before and after training days, at which they imposed fines for non-attendance at parades and transacted routine business. Generally these meetings were held at some tavern, and later, with the company meetings also, at the Tontine hotel. The customs of the day are indicated by such simple entries as these: " Bill for liquors, cake, cheese, pie, crackers, wine and cider, $2; paid"; "Liquor bill paid by Silas Hotchkiss and Abner Scott [privates], they having appeared with their evidence to get off their fines "; " No bill this evening "; " Rum, crackers and cheese, I shilling each; paid." Training days were the red letter days of the year for the towns in which they were held, not unlike those of the previous century. Ministers, magistrates und veterans were invited to the one grand banquet following the 'parade," and every one drank to the health of the guests, never orgetting the clergy. The officers bore the expense in this ratio: Captain five, lieutenant four, ensign three, sergeant two, corporal ne. The parades became more and more of a farce. The men pre- ented little uniformity of appearance, either in dress or discipline. What Edward L. Bronson saw in his boyhood, as described in the Republican of December 22, 1886, is fairly representative of the con- ition of things during this period:
I had come to Waterbury to witness what then was a grand sight, a "general aining." I went down what is now Bank street as far as where Earle's hotel now ands. There the lane terminated at a gate, through which a path led out upon le meadows, where the regiment was maneuvering. And such a regiment! Uni- rms like Joseph's " coat of many colors," and all styles to suit the taste or con- enience of the wearers, who were armed with an equal variety of shot guns, in ct anything to answer the requirements of the law. The officers, however, were rgeous in gold lace, epaulets and other showy equipments. At a little later date e motley crowd, called a regiment, held their parade on the Green-very unlike r now beautiful Centre square.
This degenerated militia was termed in ridicule the Flood- pods. It was the beginning of the end of the existing military ganization. The Flank company expired first. In 1840 Robert hnson, Jr., almost a stranger, was elected captain, contrary to the gular order of promotion which had prevailed up to this time. had received "a military education in the school at Middle- vn," but appears to have been unable to enforce discipline or to spire it by example. The last entry in the record book was made May, 1842, and stated that the members of the company, having peared near the house of John Sandland in Waterbury, agreeable
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to the warning issued by Robert Johnson, captain, and he not appearing, were inspected by George Pritchard, lieutenant, and found completely armed and equipped according to law. The entry was attested by Charles Scott and the following names sub- scribed to it: George Pritchard, Edward B. Leavenworth, David Welton, Reuben Tyler, Samuel Tayler, Ralph Guilford, Ruel F. ! Sanford, Charles Scott, William N. Russell.
Although there had been some distinguished men among the officers, the existence of the Battalion company on the whole had been rather precarious. Lucius Curtis was the last captain chosen before the election of Richard Welton and the ensuing brief revival. In the summer of 1840, pursuant to the orders of Brig .- Gen. D. B. Hurd, the men assembled on the Green to make choice of a commander. They came provided with pitchforks, broom handles and axe helves; blacksmiths with their sleeves rolled up and wearing their aprons, farmers in their roughest dress, and every one else who could spare the time dressed in working clothes and bent upon hav. ing some rare comedy. But Gen. Hurd was on hand, equally deter- mined that there should be some regard for law and order. In vot- ing, the men passed through between the sides of the old hay scales which stood where the Welton drinking fountain now stands. For nearly two hours they had their sport, voting for all the incompetent " characters " of the town they could think of. At last, much to his surprise, but to the satisfaction of the general, Mr. Curtis was elected. But with the others, he looked upon the matter as a joke. Placing him at the head of the procession, the men marched around the town, impressing a farmer's wagon on the way, until they brought up at the Mansion House, then kept by Edward Chittenden. According to the spirit of the times, Capt. Curtis brought forth pail after pail of rum punch, with which the men regaled themselves until, becoming boisterous, they made dire threats against Curtis. At this juncture, however, the general interfered, the captain went home in peace and the general retired, remarking that if they had not elected a captain he would have kept them on the Green all night.
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