. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . your patriotism ; but you have re-enlisted to giveyourselves for three years more to the country, and, through the country, toGod. Those at home appreciate your services and your devotion ; and,though you may sometimes feel that there is a coldness toward you, let metell you it is only in appearance: there is a feeling in this peoples heartwhich perhaps no other people have cherished towards their brave sol-diers. Let me tell you, that, so long as this heart beats, it will beat withgratitude and love for the men who ha
. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . your patriotism ; but you have re-enlisted to giveyourselves for three years more to the country, and, through the country, toGod. Those at home appreciate your services and your devotion ; and,though you may sometimes feel that there is a coldness toward you, let metell you it is only in appearance: there is a feeling in this peoples heartwhich perhaps no other people have cherished towards their brave sol-diers. Let me tell you, that, so long as this heart beats, it will beat withgratitude and love for the men who have oflfered themselves as a bulwarkto the nation. So long as this voice can speak, so long will it speak inpraise of the men of the Thirteenth Connecticut. God bless you! Iwelcome you to the City and the State. The veteran regiments received many recruits at home;and they marched back again to the front, when their brieffurlough was ended, followed by the benedictions of theState, and made readier by the touch of loving hands forthe last death-grapple with the CHAPTER XXXII. The Sixteenth in Rebel Prisons. — Tlie Enlisted Men at Andersonvillc.—Eations.—Terrible Suffering in the Stockade. — The Dead-Line. — Starvation.—Insanity.— The Patriots Bnrial. — The Hospital. —OfRcers at Macon. — Chivalry and Blood-hounds.— The Glorious Fourth. — In Charleston.—Efforts to Escape.—Ex-change. LYMOUTH was the end of the active war-life ofthe Sixteenth. Ahnost a year of captivity wasbefore them, — the year when rebel prisonswere the portals of death. Of the four hun-dred enlisted men, less than two hundred everescaped to tell the story of the starvation and nameless tor-tures in the loathsome hell of Andersonville. The cowardlyjjersecution of prisoners of war had. not then culminated;and the men had but a very faint foreshadowing of theghastly future, as they dropped their burnished arms, andstepped into the midst of the exulting graybacks. The Sixtee
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