THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST AT CAMP CHASE. 239 office," it was five hours before it received an order to go into camp. The men stretched themselves upon the ground of East Capitol Hill, and slept without tents. Next morning the baggage came up, and a camp was laid out; but, two days thereafter, they removed to Camp Chase, at Arlington Heights, under their new brigade-commander, Gen. Paul. Here officers and men studied Casey's tactics, and devoted four hours a day to the drill. The Twenty-first also reached Washington on the 13th, bivouacked near the Twentieth, and went with it to Camp Chase on the 17th. Henry, overlooking that fortification and the city. This is the highest point of land in the city; and the sweep of vision covers a radius of five or six miles in every direction. The view was fine: but no quarters or food had been pro'vided for the regiment; so the men lay down upon the ground, and slept like veterans. Next day, there was great excitement caused by Lee's approach; and twenty rounds of cartridges were dealt out; and the men, for a few nights, slept on their arms. Here they remained for more than a month, the post-quartermaster seeming to delight in making them uncomfortable. The Eighteenth also stopped in Baltimore. Col. Ely reported to Gen. Morris; and the regiment was at once installed in Fort McHenry, just being vacated by a NewYork three-months' regiment. Here they were soon comfortably located in a camp on a cool and shady slope running off to the waters of the bay. Behind and above, the great guns of the fort frowned over the ramparts on the half-rebel city; while over all floated the stars and stripes as proudly as when, "in the dawn's early light," Francis Rodman Drake gazed anxiously across these same waters, and that grand anthem, "The Star-spangled Banner," was born. The regiment remained here a month; four companies, Capts. Peale's, Warner's, Knapp's, and Mathewson's, under Major Keach, being stationed at Havre de Grâce, guarding the railroad. The Nineteenth arrived at Alexandria on Sept. 18, and went into camp a mile back of the city, in the brigade of Gen. Slough, military governor. Here the regiment did picket and patrol duty in and about Alexandria from this time until January, obtaining the good will of the citizens by circumspect behavior and soldierly conduct. These months were industriously improved. The regiment was daily and thoroughly drilled by Lieut.-Col. Kellogg, who was the beau-idéal of a soldier, and one of the best drillmasters Connecticut produced. Col. Wessells' health soon gave way, and he was but a few weeks with the regiment. The Twentieth reached Washington at four o'clock, P.M., of Sept. 13; but, having reported to the "circumlocution THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST AT CAMP CHASE. 239 office," it was five hours before it received an order to go into camp. The men stretched themselves upon the ground of East Capitol Hill, and slept without tents. Next morning the baggage came up, and a camp was laid out; but, two days thereafter, they removed to Camp Chase, at Arlington Heights, under their new brigade-commander, Gen. Paul. Here officers and men studied Casey's tactics, and devoted four hours a day to the drill. The Twenty-first also reached Washington on the 13th, bivouacked near the Twentieth, and went with it to Camp Chase on the 17th. CHAPTER XVI. The Call for Seven Regiments of Nine-months' Men. The second Great Uprising. Recruiting Active. Meetings and Bounties. A Draft announced. - The Camps. The - Exemption sought. Skulks and Cowards. - The Surgeons besieged. White-liver Complaint. — Incidents. How New Haven filled her Quota. The Day of the Draft. The Mountain brings forth. All the Regiments Full. - The Twentysecond from Hartford and Tolland Counties. Twenty-third from Fairfield and New Haven. Twenty-fourth from Middlesex. - Twenty-fifth from Hartford. Twenty-sixth from New London and Windham. — Twenty-seventh from New Haven. - Twenty-eighth from Fairfield and Litchfield. - The Rendezvous on Long Island. LMOST simultaneously with the call for three hundred thousand men for three years came (Aug. 4, 1862) a call for three hundred thousand for nine months, under which the quota of the State was again 7,145. Including the last three-years' quota, still incomplete, Connecticut had already raised 21,702 soldiers; and the various branches of industry showed the drain that was being suffered. Yet the startling reverses to our arms, and the excitement and war-meetings resulting, caused a very general response to this summons. Moreover, nearly half the number now called for had been furnished in the surplus volunteering for three years; and there were many remaining whose circumstances prevented a three-years' absence, who cheerfully volunteered to go for nine months, believing that such service would carry the war past the most critical point. Seven additional regiments were called for, from the Twenty-second to the Twenty-eighth inclusive; and volunteers poured in to the recruiting-stations. All parties participated in the new uprising. At the war-meetings of the time, Charles Chapman and Alvan P. Hyde, the acknowledged leaders of the Democratic party in the House of Represen PREPARATIONS FOR DRAFTING. 241 tatives, spoke on the same platform with prominent Republicans, urging men of all creeds and politics to enroll themselves at once for the national defense. The last companies filled slowly; and the governor, on Aug. 21, in obedience to orders from Washington, announced a draft for Sept. 3, unless the requisition should previously be filled. The number required of different towns being estimated, they at once put forth prodigious efforts to fill the respective quotas. While nearly all the people heartily seconded recruiting, a large majority looked upon the draft as a disagreeable, if necessary, alternative: many objected to it, and a few openly opposed it. Dr. C. H. Atwood of Woodbury objected to bounties, and called upon the educated and wealthy to enlist, and not require it of the laboring-men, who could not leave their families. As the tendency, if not the intent, of this was obvious, his eloquence was received with hisses, and only seived to augment the emphasis with which the town voted the bounty of one hundred dollars. At the town-meeting in Bethlehem, an old citizen named Beecher, who had presided a year before at a Schnable peace-meeting, was "afeard the town would be ruined by paying such big bounties." His son Marshall Beecher soon took refuge in Canada. L. L. Bloss offered a resolution, providing that, if a volunteer from the town should "run off anybody's nigger," he should forfeit all his bounty. Meanwhile the enrollment for a draft was proceeding. In preparation for it, four camps were established,- Camp Halleck at Hartford, commanded by Col. George S. Burnham, and, later, by Col. George P. Bissell, for Hartford and Tolland Counties; Camp Terry at New Haven, for New-Haven, Fairfield, and Litchfield Counties, commanded by Col. James M. Woodward; Camp Russell at Norwich, for New-London and Windham Counties, commanded by Col. Thomas G. Kingsley, and, later, by Col. Thomas H. C. Kingsbury; and Camp Mansfield at Middletown, for Middlesex County, commanded by Col. E. W. N. Starr. Several of the last three-years' regiments, and all the nine-months' regiments, rendezvoused at these camps. General orders were published, giving full directions as to |