. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . er. Deprived of liberty, and on a scanty diet, we are not of all men the most misera-Ijle when we remember for what we are here. About this time. Corporal Samuel D. Worden of Canterburydied of wounds received at Winchester, and disease engen-dered on Belle Isle. He was liberally educated, a graduateof the Unitarian Theological Seminary at Meadville, and hadoccasionally occupied the pulpit of that denomination. Hewas an exemplarv Christian soldier, and fought as he hadlived, in compliance with hi- conscient
. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . er. Deprived of liberty, and on a scanty diet, we are not of all men the most misera-Ijle when we remember for what we are here. About this time. Corporal Samuel D. Worden of Canterburydied of wounds received at Winchester, and disease engen-dered on Belle Isle. He was liberally educated, a graduateof the Unitarian Theological Seminary at Meadville, and hadoccasionally occupied the pulpit of that denomination. Hewas an exemplarv Christian soldier, and fought as he hadlived, in compliance with hi- conscientious the second call for troops came, he had charge of aschool at Greenville; but he joined Capt. company-,and laid all the hopes and aspirations of his cultivated mindon the altar of American nationality. He finally died athome, where Rev. Mr. Stone of Brooklyn delivered a touch-ing address; and the remains of the fl\llen hero were boiTieto the grave by his companions in arms. Such were manyof the men who fouLdit in the ranks of our irreat CHAPTER XXIII. Battle of Cliancellorsville. — Advance upon the Flank. — The Fifth, Fourteenth, Seven-teenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-seventh Connecticut Regiments engaged. — The 11thCorps overwhelmed by Stonewall Jackson. — Terrible Battle of May 3. — HeavyLosses of the Twentieth Connecticut Volunteers.—The Twenty-seventh Regimentcaptured. — A New Line of Battle. — Withdrawal of the Army and Failure of theMovement. — Losses of the Connecticut Regiments. — Prisoners of War. PRING came. It was 1863. Two years of thewar had passed with little gain for the Unionarms in Virginia. Hooker was in command ofthe splendidly-disciplined and plucky Army ofthe Potomac, which he declared to be the finestarmy on the planet. His eight corps were eager to be ledagain towards Richmond, — this time by the soldier who hadborne the brunt of battle at Antietam. Five Connecticutreo-iments were with him, — the Fi
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