. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . tuous whirl of flame. And then the gentle goddess Liberty —Whose unseen ribbon rippled on their pledge of knightly troth — bent the dim eyes, and cooled the fevered hand,And dropped a blessing into every helped each spirit from its mould of clay;And, as they rose to heaven, they sprinkled wideUpon the upturned foreheads of the worldThe purple drops of their vicarious love. The sequel to the battle of this day need not be soldiers of the whole army expected to move nex
. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . tuous whirl of flame. And then the gentle goddess Liberty —Whose unseen ribbon rippled on their pledge of knightly troth — bent the dim eyes, and cooled the fevered hand,And dropped a blessing into every helped each spirit from its mould of clay;And, as they rose to heaven, they sprinkled wideUpon the upturned foreheads of the worldThe purple drops of their vicarious love. The sequel to the battle of this day need not be soldiers of the whole army expected to move next 9 By w. A. c. ANTIETAM A DEAWK BATTLE. 287 morning, — to swoop clown upon the over-matched enemy,and give him the coup de grace. Instead of that, a trucewas proclaimed, and the rebels permitted to bury their gracious office was neglected, and the time was occu-pied by them in getting the trains and guns to the rear;and the sun of Sept. 19 found Lees army safely across thePotomac, and, with some plausibility, claiming Antietam tohave been a drawn CHAPTER XIX. Tiirdy Pursuit of Lee. — The Eighth, Eleventh, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, andTwenty-first Connecticut Volunteers. —Gen. Burnside in Command. —March to Fal-mouth. — The Eighth lay the Pontoon-Bridge. — The Battle of Fredericksburg. —Gallantry of the Fourteenth and Twenty-seventh. — Gen. Harlands OfHcial Report.—The Disastrous Repulse.—Whereabouts of the Fifth, Seventeenth, Twentieth, andTwenty-second. — Private Elias Howe, Jr. — The Array Ration. — Camp at StaffordCourt House. IX weeks after the battle of Antietam, McClel-lans army began tardily to pursue Lee ; movingfrom camp in Pleasant Valley, Md., acrossthe river at Berlin, just below HarpersFerry,and passing south-west an the east side of theBlue Ridge. The Eighth, Eleventh, and Sixteenth Connec-ticut Regiments were nearly together, and the Twenty-firstnow joined the brigade. Little of importance occurred tothem
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