. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . CONNECTICUT DURING THE EEBELLION. of Rocky Hill, and Cupt. Ira S. Smith of New Haven. In Feb-ruary, 1864, the battalion was addressed by Frederick Doug-lass, the colored orator from Rochester, It finally leftNew Haven without its minimum complement of men ; and inJune, near Cold Harbor, it was consolidated with another bat-talion as the United-States 31st. During the next week, theywere detailed as a guard for two or three thousand prisoners,to whom the situation was very trying. CHAPTER XXXVI. After Cold Harbor.
. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . CONNECTICUT DURING THE EEBELLION. of Rocky Hill, and Cupt. Ira S. Smith of New Haven. In Feb-ruary, 1864, the battalion was addressed by Frederick Doug-lass, the colored orator from Rochester, It finally leftNew Haven without its minimum complement of men ; and inJune, near Cold Harbor, it was consolidated with another bat-talion as the United-States 31st. During the next week, theywere detailed as a guard for two or three thousand prisoners,to whom the situation was very trying. CHAPTER XXXVI. After Cold Harbor. — The First Cavalry. — To Petersburg. — Exploit of the Eighth. —Charge of the Eleventh. —The Second, Fourteenth, and Twenty-first. — The Sixth,Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth at Bermuda Hundred. — Wilsons Raid. — The FirstCavalry. — Bold Ride of Capt. Whitaker. —Incidents.—First Connecticut Artil-lery. — Siege-Work of the Summer. — Battle of Strawberry Plains. —The ThirtiethConnecticut at the Mine. — Death of Col. Stedman and EEP to the left was Grants constant formulaof command; and every swing brought himnearer to Richmond. A change pf base, whichNapoleon called the ablest maneuver taught bymilitary art, was achieved by Grant and Meade,after Cold Harbor, with masterly skill and complete by one the corps were withdrawn from the right, andsent to the rear and left. The right was thus gradually andcautiously refused, and the line developed towards the lowercrossings of the Chickahominy. In the mean time, Wilsonsdivision of cavalry, which included the First Connecticut,was sent around the rebel right, straight on Ricfmiond. Bythis ruse, Lee was deceived, and withdrew his army rapidlytowards the capital to intercept what he supposed to beGrants direct advance by the left. Wilsons cavalry, afterseizing and holding Long Bridge, on the Chickahominy,dashed towards Richmond, and drove the rebel cavalry andinfantry across White-
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