THE MILITARY AND CIVIL HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT DURING THE WAR OF 1861-65. COMPRISING A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS REGIMENTS AND BATTERIES, THROUGH MARCH, ENCAMPMENT, BIVOUAC, AND BATTLE; ALSO INSTANCES OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONAL GALLANTRY, AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY HEROIC SOLDIERS: TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE PATRIOTIC ACTION OF CITIZENS AT HOME, AND OF THE LIBERAL SUPPORT FURNISHED BY THE STATE IN ITS EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENTS. BY W. A. CROFFUT AND JOHN M. MORRIS. ILLUSTRATED. THIRD EDITION, REVISED. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY LEDYARD BILL, 75 FULTON STREET. 1869. 4345 1870, Jan. 29. of Hartford, Conn. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by LEDYARD BILL, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New Yor GEO. C. RAND & AVERY, STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS, BOSTON. To JOHN TURNER WAIT, LATE SPEAKER OF THE CONNECTICUT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; A PATRIOT WHOSE ONLY SON FELL IN DEFENSE OF HIS COUNTRY, AND WHOSE MANY ACTS OF KINDNESS HAVE ENDEARED HIM TO THE SOLDIERS OF CONNECTICUT; THIS VOLUME, THE RECORD OF THEIR SERVICES AND SUFFERINGS, IS CORDIALLY DEDICATED. Brevet Brig.-Gen. E. W. Whitaker. Ashford, Col. John H. Almy.. Lieut.-Col. John H. Burnham. Lieut. Col. Henry Allen Lieut.-Col. Hiram Appelman.... Major Ezra D. Dickerman. Capt. Julius Bassett... Lieut. Stanton Allyn.. Prosper M. Wetmore. Charles Gould.... New Haven, Navy, Cornwall Hol'w Regulars, Opp. 58. D New London, 156. Norwich, 13th Connecticut, 1st Conn. Artillery New Haven, 7th Connecticut, 688. |