. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time . st before arrivingat camp there was a ravine, in the bottom of ^,:8°T;tiS^^^^^^^ was a spring of delicious water. He collected as 13,1S64, time expired. many cantceus as he could carry and filled them with the water. As he was returning he met a friend from the 7th Con-necticut, W. H. Pierpont, of New Haven, who had been wounded in thearm, and was going to the rear, carrying his musket. His wound was quitese
. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time . st before arrivingat camp there was a ravine, in the bottom of ^,:8°T;tiS^^^^^^^ was a spring of delicious water. He collected as 13,1S64, time expired. many cantceus as he could carry and filled them with the water. As he was returning he met a friend from the 7th Con-necticut, W. H. Pierpont, of New Haven, who had been wounded in thearm, and was going to the rear, carrying his musket. His wound was quiteserious, though after some nursing in the North, he was able to resumeactive service, rising from sergeant to captain. When the intrenchments were reached the comrades found that twocompanies of the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery had been sent to rein-force the loth Corps, from the forts around Washington, and they had al-ready constructed a line of earthworks. Comrade Sloan says: As I went inside this line I met several whomI knew, and tried to scare them by telling them a lot of stories of the im-mense armies of Confederates that were following us. There was a great. HENRY H. TALLMADGE,of Granby. 452 HISTORY AND REMINISCENCES contrast in our appearance: they were clean, had white belts, bright brassbuttons, while the little sleep I had been able to get for a week had beentaken on the ground, and the smoke and dirt had given me the complexionof a darky. We were fortunate if we got enough water to drink and did notbother to wash. As soon as I reached camp I wrote a line home, and thenwent to the river and took a bath, We had been through a very hard time, and met with the most severeloss of our service, both in men and horses, and had it not been for thethoughtfulness and ability of Capt. Rockwell, we should have met withmany more serious losses. Comrade Griswold, speaking of that retreat, says: Our camps wereover in the rear of the right of the line, and we were already cut
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