. 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 . was not until July12th that the news reached the camp at life was not at all unpleasant. Comrade Abels wrote • - We arehavmg good easy times these days; blackberries are plentiful, and all is quietexcept when the gunboats are firing at a rebel battery near Malvern Hill On the night of July X3th, the 2d Corps passed the Battery camp andcrossed the river on the pontoon and took up their old position on the


. 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 . was not until July12th that the news reached the camp at life was not at all unpleasant. Comrade Abels wrote • - We arehavmg good easy times these days; blackberries are plentiful, and all is quietexcept when the gunboats are firing at a rebel battery near Malvern Hill On the night of July X3th, the 2d Corps passed the Battery camp andcrossed the river on the pontoon and took up their old position on the otherside of Four Mile Creek. At daylight the following morning orders reachedCommissary Hotchkiss to give out three days rations all round, the orderlysaying that the Battery must report at headquarters in half an hour A Confederate light battery of Whitworth guns had been brought fromMalvern Hill to the banks of the river, near Haxalls Landing, and openedfire on the gunboat ^.;.^./^,Commander Nichols. The gunboat replied andfor a long time the practice was quite lively, ending with the loss of oneman killed, two mortally and five badly wounded. After the gunboat re. LUCIUS H. JAGGER, of Hebron. Enlisted and mustered in Aug- 14., 1862. Died at Deep Bottom; July 16, 1864.


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