. 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 . ny wonder that ComradeTalmadge should have written in his diary (which he kindly placed at thedisposal of the Editor), Everyone was seasick, officers and all. The sor-riest looking crowd that was ever seen, I as bad as the rest. All were talk-ing of home and wishing they had stayed there. While Dr Hurlbut and Comrade Griswold were attending the sick inthe hold, Comrade William M. Fowler was in charge of the six comrades
. 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 . ny wonder that ComradeTalmadge should have written in his diary (which he kindly placed at thedisposal of the Editor), Everyone was seasick, officers and all. The sor-riest looking crowd that was ever seen, I as bad as the rest. All were talk-ing of home and wishing they had stayed there. While Dr Hurlbut and Comrade Griswold were attending the sick inthe hold, Comrade William M. Fowler was in charge of the six comradeswho were suffering from black measles and other contagious diseases in theboatswains quarters. Comrade Fowler declares that from the day he tookcharge to the very end of the voyage he neither saw the doctor nor receivedany medicines, but was left to depend on his own knowledge and the use ofwater and a small piece of lemon given by one of the sailors, instead ofsuitable drugs. Doubtless the doctor was himself suftering from theoffensive atmosphere of the hold, and was unable to render any Fowler was an able nurse; his loving attention was constant; he. 78 HISTORY AND REMINISCENCES moistened the parched lips and bathed the fevered forehead; he was soft and o-entle as a woman, and never once did a murmur escape him, though in one instance his life was in great danger. A comrade was sick with typhoid fever, and in the last stage of the fever became very delirious. Comrade Wm. M. Fowler had hung up his side arms, consisting of a pistol and a two-edged sword, commonly called a toad-sticker. The comrade, weary with watch-ing, fell asleep and was awakened by TOADSTICKER. ,^ , , , , hearing a noise. He looked up and sawthe delirious fever-stricken comrade standing over him, his eyes glaringwildly, flourishing the savage-looking toadsticker over his head, as ifabout to cut it off. Only by prompt action and presence of mind was theweapon taken away from the sick man, w
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