. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 : comprising a detailed account of the various regiments and batteries, through march, encampment, bivouac, and battle; also instances of distinguished personal gallantry, and biographical sketches of many heroic soldiers: together with a record of the patriotic action of citizens at home, and of the liberal support furnished by the state in its executive and legislative departments . a prisoner. Deprived of liberty, and subsist-ing on a scanty diet, we are not of all men the most misera-ble when we remember for what we
. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 : comprising a detailed account of the various regiments and batteries, through march, encampment, bivouac, and battle; also instances of distinguished personal gallantry, and biographical sketches of many heroic soldiers: together with a record of the patriotic action of citizens at home, and of the liberal support furnished by the state in its executive and legislative departments . a prisoner. Deprived of liberty, and subsist-ing on a scanty diet, we are not of all men the most misera-ble 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 exemplary Christian soldier, and fought as he hadlived, in compliance with his conscientious the second call for troops came, he had charge of aschool at Greenville; but he joined Capt. Daviss 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 fallen hero were borneto the grave by his companions in arms. Such were manyof th? men who fought in the ranks of our great army/. CHAPTER XXIII. Battle :>f Chancellorsville. — 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. PRLNG came. It was 1863. Two years of
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