. 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 . for another team. Heconfesses he felt a bit shaky, but with character-istic modesty he never said that he had been sick,and ought to have been in the hospital instead ofon active duty. Comrade Theron Upson was crossing to wherethe horses were struck, and describes the episodein a slightly different manner, telling it as itcame back to his memory after the excitement ofthe daj^: Comrade Holly was sick the morning we were
. 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 . for another team. Heconfesses he felt a bit shaky, but with character-istic modesty he never said that he had been sick,and ought to have been in the hospital instead ofon active duty. Comrade Theron Upson was crossing to wherethe horses were struck, and describes the episodein a slightly different manner, telling it as itcame back to his memory after the excitement ofthe daj^: Comrade Holly was sick the morning we were ordered out, saidComrade Upson. It happened that I had some whiskey and quinine inmy pocket; it was some that I had saved, for when we arrived on JamesIsland we were served rations of whiskey and quinine every morning. Ionly took it a few times, so had two or three rations in a bottle. On thatday I had it in my overcoat pocket. There was a lull in the battle, and I wasstanding right by Comrade Holly. I knew he was sick the day before, andI told him he oughtnot to have come out on that day. That has nothingto do with it, for I was coming anyway, answered Holly. I OLIVER K. ABELS, of East Granby. Enlisted Nov. 7, 1861; mustered in Nov. 13, 1861; discharged Nov. 13, 1864, time expired. 158 HISTORY AND REMINISCENCES Come down and I will give you something to brace you up. Hollydismounted, took the bottle from my hand, and had just put it to his mouthwhen a grape shot struck his saddle, tearing it to fragments and woundingthe horse severely. Had he remained another moment in the saddle hewould have been a dead man. The color did not return to his face forsome time, but the army rations of whiskey and quinine helped him tofinish his days work in good shape. The Battery was ordered to return to the hedge near the hospital, andit was effected in good order, one piece at a time, so that the enemy couldnot concentrate his fire. As the Battery fell back, scenes which harrowed the
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