. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . s visiting us, and the effect onour men has been very good. Whereas you formerly couldhear an oath now and then from an aggravated individual,now no such imprecations sully the air. Let me here men-tion the incalculable services rendered to our sick by , mother of John H. Burnham, now com-manding the regiment. Almost seventy years old, this grandold lady displays a vigor and tenderness, a discrimination andpractical kindness, in her attentions to the sick, that havegone far to help us through a d
. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . s visiting us, and the effect onour men has been very good. Whereas you formerly couldhear an oath now and then from an aggravated individual,now no such imprecations sully the air. Let me here men-tion the incalculable services rendered to our sick by , mother of John H. Burnham, now com-manding the regiment. Almost seventy years old, this grandold lady displays a vigor and tenderness, a discrimination andpractical kindness, in her attentions to the sick, that havegone far to help us through a dreadful epidemic of diphthe-ria and of remittent fever, with the loss of only three is constantly engaged in preparing those nice • home tit- 1 Sergeant William H Hubbard of Guilford died in September. He was a well-edu-cated younj^ man ; moral and circumspect in his life, and happy in the hour of his sacrifice.^ Surgeon Nathan Mayer. -ci. 476 CONNECTICUT DURING THE EEBELLION. , and I :ccas-Oiua - . -jrit of a /as fair, which keptand £ arms. The;.h«ir persons. <^<-^w^^^ /fe/^..^^^^ FINE CONDITION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST. 477 bits SO dear to the sick soldiers. Not satisfied with prepar-ing them, she administers them, talking all the time to thedelio-hted men as onlv a o^reat, srood woman of that ag;e andsuch motherly feelings can talk. Surgeon Mayer, the successor of Dr. Abner S. Warner ofWethersfield, wrote of this time, Gradually, the finestcamp, but one, which it has been my fortune to see, grewup. The most perfect order, the most civihzed condition,prevailed. The tents were neatly and prettily furnished, asour Connecticut country homes are, and the ground alwaj^sin beautiful condition. As winter approached, the men builta hospital of logs, — log-houses for the officers, log kitchensand eating-saloons for the companies. Our pioneers erecteda perfect village. Buring all these weeks, the military standing of the regi-ment rose perceptibly. There was not a cleane
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