. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . Thesemonths were industriously improved. The regiment wasdaily and thoroughly drilled by Kellogg, whowas the heau-ideal of a soldier, and one of the best drill-masters Connecticut produced. Col. Wessells health soongave way, and he was but a few weeks with the regiment. The Twentieth reached Washington at four oclock, ,of Sept. 13; but, having reported to the circumlocution THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST AT CAMP CHASE. 239 office, it was five hours before it received an order to gointo camp. The men str
. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . Thesemonths were industriously improved. The regiment wasdaily and thoroughly drilled by Kellogg, whowas the heau-ideal of a soldier, and one of the best drill-masters Connecticut produced. Col. Wessells health soongave way, and he was but a few weeks with the regiment. The Twentieth reached Washington at four oclock, ,of Sept. 13; but, having reported to the circumlocution THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST AT CAMP CHASE. 239 office, it was five hours before it received an order to gointo camp. The men stretched themselves upon the groundof East Capitol Hill, and slept without tents. Next morningthe baggage came up, and a camp was laid out; but, twodays thereafter, they removed to Camp Chase, at ArlingtonHeights, under their new brigade-commander, — Gen. officers and men studied Caseys tactics, and devotedfour hours a day to the drill. The Twenty-first also reached Washington on the loth,bivouacked near the Twentieth, and went with it to CampChase on the CHAPTER XVI. The Call for Seven Regiments of Nine-months Men. — The second Great Uprising.—Recruiting Active. — Meetings and Bounties. — A Draft announced. — The Camps. — Exemption sought. — Skulks and Cowards. — The Surgeons besieged. — TheWhite-liver Coraplairrt. — Incidents. — How New Haven filled her Quota. — The Dayof the Draft. — The Mountain brings fortii. — All the Regiments Full. — The Twenty-second from Hartford and Tolland Counties. — Twenty-third from Fairfield andNew Haven. — Twenty-fourth from Middlesex.—Twenty-fifth from Hartford.—Twenty-sixth from New London and Windham. — Twenty-seventh from New Haven. — Twenty-eighth from Fairfield and Litchfield. — The Rendezvous on Long Island. LMOST simultaneously with the call for threeliundrecl thousand men for three years came(Aug. 4, 1862) a call for three hundred thou-sand for nine months, under which the qu
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