. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . the con-stant friend of our troops. On March 18, the regiment was transferred, in New-YorkHarbor, to the ship City of New York, which, after fivedays waiting, weighed anchor to join Farragut and Butlerat the mouth of the Mississippi. The voyage was meager ofnotable incident. They had evening theatricals, participatedin by Sergeants Gardner of H, and Gardner of K, CorporalDevereaux Jones, and Private Charles Raf&le, — all expe-rienced actors; and songs by Jeremiah Keefe, James McAl-lister, Vv^illiam B. Bragg, and Compan
. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . the con-stant friend of our troops. On March 18, the regiment was transferred, in New-YorkHarbor, to the ship City of New York, which, after fivedays waiting, weighed anchor to join Farragut and Butlerat the mouth of the Mississippi. The voyage was meager ofnotable incident. They had evening theatricals, participatedin by Sergeants Gardner of H, and Gardner of K, CorporalDevereaux Jones, and Private Charles Raf&le, — all expe-rienced actors; and songs by Jeremiah Keefe, James McAl-lister, Vv^illiam B. Bragg, and Company As accomplishedGlee Club. The ship encountered a storm off Hatteras;touched, with some peril, at Florida Keys; sighted a rakish-looking steamer, and showed fight, with Sergeant Merrill andPrivate Thomas Harrison at the single cannon; and, onApril 13, disembarked on Ship Island, which had just beenswept by a terrible storm. Assistant Surgeon John B. Welch of the Twelfth, fromWinsted, died while the regiment remained at Ship Island,after brief but faithful A NAVAL BATTLE. 1^J During the latter part of March, the Ninth was relievedfrom the monotony of its discomfort by a raid upon theenemy. A boat with a little girl in it being found adrift, andbrought to Ship Island, Gen. Butler sent it to the nearesttown, Biloxi, under a flag of truce, in charge of MajorStrong, his chief of staff While returning to the island,Major Strong was fired upon from the shore, — an act of bar-barism which so incensed Gen. Butler, that he ordered theNinth to cross the sound, and burn the town if the outrairewas not promptly apologized for. The force went ashore ina steam-transport, convoyed by the gunboat New London*and another; and the landino; was the sig;nal for the flio-htof rebel soldiers and citizens in great terror. Skirmisherswere sent into the country, and brought back the fugitivemayor, who made atonement by declaring that the treacheryof the morning was the act of straggling ru
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