. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . was born in Nonvalk in 1842. He sensed in the three - monthscampaign as a private in the 71st New-York, and re-entered the service as lieutenant inthe Seventeenth Connecticut Volunteers. On transmitting his promotion to lieutenant-colonel, Col. Noble said, Your good conduct and soldierly bearing alone have securedyour advancement. His only brother was killed in front of Petersburg, and his lathercommanded the steamer Hussar during the war. On muster-out, Col. Allen was exam-ined by a board of officers, and recommended
. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . was born in Nonvalk in 1842. He sensed in the three - monthscampaign as a private in the 71st New-York, and re-entered the service as lieutenant inthe Seventeenth Connecticut Volunteers. On transmitting his promotion to lieutenant-colonel, Col. Noble said, Your good conduct and soldierly bearing alone have securedyour advancement. His only brother was killed in front of Petersburg, and his lathercommanded the steamer Hussar during the war. On muster-out, Col. Allen was exam-ined by a board of officers, and recommended for a captaincy in the regular army, a posi-tion which he declined. 736 CONNECTICUT DUEING THE EEBELLION. ordered to Hilton Head, via Jacksonville. Arriving at thelatter place, it was detained by Gen. Vodges, and kept atwork for weeks in the reconstruction of the TallahasseeRailroad. About the 7th of July, Allen succeededin getting all but one hundred and twenty-five recruitstransported to Hilton Head. Col. Noble received the brevetrank of CHAPTER XLII. Prison Experience of our Soldiers. — Testimony of a Confederate Surgeon. — Experienceof Weston Ferris on Belle Isle. — Great Privation and Suffering. — Condition of Pris-oners at Camp Ford, Tex. — Gen. E. M. Lee in Libby. — Capture of Major Sanfordand Men of the Seventh.—Adventures of Three Oflieers of the Sixteenth.—Fidelityof Surgeon Niekcrson. — Thrilling Narrative of Lieut. Bailey. —Deaths at Anderson-ville. — Incidents of Martyrdom. E have already narrated something of the prison-experience of the soldiers of Connecticut. Theyoccupied at one time or another every militaryduugeon and stockade of the South, and shared,as has been seen, their starvation, exposure, anddeath-laden atmosphere. The world has shuddered at thesepictures of wretchedness, — the hopeless prisoners wanderingwearily across the dead-line, and askiug to be shot ratherthan longer endure the torture ; t
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