. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . Depewhas well said, To the Army of the Potomac belongs theunequalled distinction of being its own hero. It fought morebattles and lost more men than all the others. It shed itsblood like water, to teach incompetent officers the art of war,and political tacticians the folly of their plans ; but it wasalways the same undismayed and invincible Army of thePotomac. Loyal ever to its mission and to discipline, theonly sound it gave in protest to the murderous folly ofcabi
. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . Depewhas well said, To the Army of the Potomac belongs theunequalled distinction of being its own hero. It fought morebattles and lost more men than all the others. It shed itsblood like water, to teach incompetent officers the art of war,and political tacticians the folly of their plans ; but it wasalways the same undismayed and invincible Army of thePotomac. Loyal ever to its mission and to discipline, theonly sound it gave in protest to the murderous folly ofcabinets and generals, was the crackling of bones, as cannonballs ploughed through its decimated ranks * * * in-flexible of purpose, insensible to suffering, inured to fatigue, 5o Twenty-first Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. and reckless of danger, it rained blow upon blow upon itsheroic but staggering foe, and the world gained a new andbetter Republic in the surrender at Appomattox. As theRepublic marches down the ages, accumulating power andsplendor with each succeeding century, the van will be led bythe Army of the A HOT TIME IN DIXIE. The Advance Into Virginia. 51 CHAPTEE TI. THE ADVANCE INTO VIRGINIA. October-December, 1862. From safe and peaceful Norwich the regiment went by raildirectly to the defenses of Washington, then garrisoned bythe Army of the Potomac, and was assigned to the SecondBrigade, Third Division of the Ninth Army Corps, on Octo-ber 10, 1862. The history of the war prior to this date need not herebe recounted. Suffice it to say that, upon the whole, thesuccesses of the Union armies had not been conspicuous ;but the spirit of officers and men was undaunted, and therewas a general conviction throughout the Army of the Poto-mac that, given only a fair chance, it could teach the gray-coated legions of the Confederacy a lesson that they wouldnot soon forget. On the 28th day of October, 1862, after more than threeweeks of uneventful camp life at Pleasant
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