. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . displayed by the regiment during the time it wasunder fire, and to the fortitude and alacrity with which they fulfilledevery duty required of them during four days of excitement, danger,and suffering. The officers in particular have, without exception,shown themselves well worthy of the trust reposed in them. List of casualties in the regiment in the battle of Fredericksburg,December 13, 1862 : Wounded—Lieutenant and Adjutant Clarence E. Dutton, inbody, slightly; Pr
. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . displayed by the regiment during the time it wasunder fire, and to the fortitude and alacrity with which they fulfilledevery duty required of them during four days of excitement, danger,and suffering. The officers in particular have, without exception,shown themselves well worthy of the trust reposed in them. List of casualties in the regiment in the battle of Fredericksburg,December 13, 1862 : Wounded—Lieutenant and Adjutant Clarence E. Dutton, inbody, slightly; Private D. S. Hawkins, Company A, in head,slightly ; Corporal Frank Hough, Company C, in leg, slightly; 344 Twenty-first Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. Privates John Fitzgerald, Company H, in breast, dangerously ; Charles W Prentiss, Company I, in head, seriously; Joseph H. Daniels, Company I, in leg, slightly. I am, sir, Yours, very respectfully, A. H. Dutton, Colonel the Adjutant-General. Captain William Spittle, of the Twenty-first, is at his home inNew London, sick.—From New London Day, December, REBEL SCOUTS. Bermuda Hundred. 345 CHAPTER ZXZZXI. BERMUDA HUNDRED. (December, 1864.) After the battle of July 30th, the regiment resumed its oldplace in the trenches on the right of the line at Petersburg,and everything about us resumed its usual quiet. The daysbecame hotter still, and the pits more sultry, till August 15th,when a heavy shower of rain cooled the air, but as thoughthe fates were resolved to make it unpleasant for us, we wereas much troubled with the mud as we had been with the outsider, unacquainted with our war-like character, mighteasily have taken us all for brick-makers, so completely werewe plastered with the sacred soil of Virginia. However,after two or three days scrubbing and scraping, we contrivedto get the outer coating off, with which we felt quite wellsatisfied. The 18th of August dawned upon us, dark and lowering;fit su
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