WINTON, EUGENE. Enlisted in Co. F, 6th Conn. Vols., 7th Sept., 1861. Discharged 11th Sept., 1864-term expired.

WINTON, JARED B. Enlisted in Co. I, 2d Heavy Artillery, 6th Aug., 1862. Mustered out at Washington, D. C., 7th July, 1865.

WORDELL, WILLIAM. Enlisted in Co. I, 2d Heavy Artillery, 2d Jan., 1864. Deserted 6th June, 1865.

WOODRUFF, RODERICK STEELE. Enlisted in Co. A, 23d Conn. Vols., 20th Aug., 1862. Promoted Hospital Steward. Taken prisoner at La Fourche, Crossing Hospital, La., 25th June, 1863. Mustered out 31st Aug., 1863.

WYANT, WILSON. Enlisted April 22d, 1861, at Woodbury. Mustered 22d July, 1861, at Hartford, as Captain Co. E, 5th Conn. Vols. Resigned for disability 31st Jan., 1863.-Total, 264.

Thus have we endeavored, with persevering toil and unwearied fidelity, to gather up the history of the part that Woodbury took in the war of the Great Rebellion-a rebellion without precedent in the annals of the world. None was ever so causeless, none so malignant, none so all-destroying. The most thoughtful and observant mind, after the lapse of ten years from its baleful commencement, has scarcely yet been able to grasp a full idea of its frightful proportions. It seems as though there had been some horrid dream running through all those dark and lurid, and all-devouring years; that those bitter years had been counted out of the regular series of the era, and had, so to speak, become the days of vengeance, the dies irae of an avenging God, meeted out to an offending people-grievously offending in the curse of human servitude. It was only by such suffering, so much blood, and the expenditure of such vast treasures, in the way of Providence, that so great a curse could be expiated.

"STATISTICS DURING THE WAR.-In a recent address, General J. P. C. Shanks, a member of the United States House of Representatives, presented copious and very interesting statistics relative. to the military arm of the service during the rebellion, which were compiled from official records in the War Department and other reliable sources. From these figures it appears that the number of white commissioned officers in service during the war was 83,935; colored officers, 9; white enlisted men, 2,073,112; colored, 178,895; total officers and men, 2,335,951. There were killed in action-officers of white troops, 3,686; white officers of colored troops, 91; officers, regular army, 93; general officers, 51; total officers, 3,931. Of troops killed in action there were 37,531 white volunteers, 1,514 colored volunteers, 1,262 regular army; total 40,307; grand total, officers and soldiers, 44,238. There died of wounds received in action, 2,069 officers and 31,924 soldiers, of whom 1,037 were colored; total, 38,993. There died of disease, 1,728 officers, of whom one was colored, and 147,320 men, of whom 26,211 were colored; total, 149,043. Died from other known causes, 388 officers and 11,457 men-total, 11,485; from unknown causes, 1,203 officers, 54,094 men-total, 55,297. The deaths from all causes amounted to 294,416; 119 officers and 36, 093 privates died in southern prisons. The number of Union officers captured by the rebels was 7,072, and of soldiers, 179,091. There were legally paroled and exchanged, 6,477 officers and 147,851 soldiers; illegally, 105 officers and 1,038 men; there escaped, 397 officers and 2,376 men; recaptured, 301. The number of rebels captured during the war was-officers, 35,872; soldiers, 426,852; citizens, 15,535; total, 476,130.

What painful reflections a careful review of this civil war must ever bring to the reflecting mind and sensitive heart. "There are torn and shattered bodies which are beyond the reach of the surgeon's hand, and to whom the Secretary of War can send no assistance. They sleep peacefully enough in the forty-one military cemeteries of the Nation-three hundred and fifty-five thousand of them—and every mouldering body represents a human life which, before the rebellion, was useful, active and productive. There are more to come, and to these must be added the remains

of those who were buried elsewhere during and since the war, who died in consequence of their service in it, till the number must reach to more than half a million men. What a harvest of death? What an expenditure of the virility of the land!

What a draft upon the production of the future! What a diminution of the real wealth of the country! But, putting aside the cold. calculations of the economist, every reader of ordinary sensibility will recall the mental and physical suffering, the bereavements, the untimely departure of the dead, and the long and sharp sorrow of the surviving-of wives, of children, of sweethearts, to whom the telegram or the letter bore intelligence, which, if it did not palsy their souls, at least changed the whole tenor of their lives, and while it darkened all their future, left them possibly self dependent and alone in a bleak and busy world. There are wounds which pensions do not heal, and wants which the Government, however generous, cannot supply. All the laws in the world cannot give back the son to his widowed mother, or restore the husband to the arms of his lonely wife. There is and can be no record in the War Department of broken hearts-there is no bureau of blighted hopes, no Secretary to compute the sighs and tears, the days of distress, the sleepless nights, or the false and mocking dreams of women whom the red hand of war, stretching from the far off battle field, has remorselessly smitten, upon the very hearth-stone of a blasted home, with all its tender recollections, and may be, stern, material necessities. The Government places a little iron monument at the head of a soldier's grave; it pensions his widow and provides for his children. Can it do more? Yes, more, much more! It can remember in all its vaunted policy, in all its law-making, in all its care of the present, and in all its provision for the future, how much the very opportunity of doing anything has cost us, and by what sacrifices we have earned the right and the power to shape the destinies of the Republic, and to make it indeed the guardian of all its children against every form of oppression. We want no wasted lives. We want no gratuitous mortality. We want a steady remembrance of the past, unvexed by revengeful memories and perpetuated hatreds, but always fresh when principles are at stake, or social equities again endangered. So much is due to those who have suffered and those who have died."

As a result of all the wild turmoils of the war, of the untold suffering and anguish, and seas of human blood, we have peace, a disenthralled race, brighter skies and a purer atmosphere, Let all join in the devout aspiration, that the Giver of all Good will evermore lead the hearts of all to the ways of peace.

CHAPTER VII.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY-CONTINUED FROM PAGE 307,

1853 TO 1872; REV. LUCIUS CURTIS DISMISSED; RELIGIOUS REVIVAL; REV. ROB ERT G. WILLIAMS, SETTLED; REV. CHARLES E. ROBINSON; REV. CHARLES LITTLE ; RELIGIOUS REVIVAL; REV. HORACE WINSLOW; REV. GURDON W. NOYES; MEMBERSRIP AND BAPTISMS; REV. SAMUEL R. ANDREW-LIFE AND CHARACTER; HIS OWN ACCOUNT OF HIS SETTLEMENT; DEACON MATTHEW MINOR; MINOR JUBILEE; BENEDICT WILL; CONCLUDING remarks.

troyer of human usefulness, intervened, and he was obliged to resign his charge, which he did with reluctance, and to the great regret of his people, on Sunday, Jan. 22, 1854. A special meeting of the church and society was held, Feb. 4, 1854, at which the following votes were passed:

"Whereas the Rev. Lucius Curtiss has communicated to this Church and Society his request that they should unite with him in calling the Consociation to dissolve the connection now existing between us and him as Pastor and People, on account of ill health; and said church and society being unwilling to sunder those bonds and be separated from one in whom they are so well united, and to whom, personally they are so much attached, without some judicious effort on their part to enable the Pastor to regain his health, and still remain with us;-therefore be it