. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time . 6i, as one of four lieutenants to recruit the First Light Battery. OnNovember 14 the Governor appointedhim ist Lieutenant, and he receivedhis commission dated November 26,1861. After serving with great cour-age and daring for fourteen months heresigned his commission on January31. 1S63. Lieutenant Porter was born in He-bron, Conn. His father was a Lieu-tenant of an artillery company in theWarof 1S12. His grandfather ser
. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time . 6i, as one of four lieutenants to recruit the First Light Battery. OnNovember 14 the Governor appointedhim ist Lieutenant, and he receivedhis commission dated November 26,1861. After serving with great cour-age and daring for fourteen months heresigned his commission on January31. 1S63. Lieutenant Porter was born in He-bron, Conn. His father was a Lieu-tenant of an artillery company in theWarof 1S12. His grandfather servedin the War of the Revolution, and hisgreat-grandfather and his ancestors served in the Indian wars, thefamily being among the first settlers of the colony. LieutenantPorter lost his commission and honorable discharge papers in thePit Hole fire in the oil region. When Lieutenant Porter left theBattery he drilled the 3d Connecticut Light Battery and marchedit to Harrisburg, Pa. Lieutenant Porter has kindly sent a recent, portrait from Orr,Montana, in civilian dress, which will be welcomed by his oldcomrades, who can best recall him from his military portrait onpage JOHN S. CANNON, of New Haven, Conn., enlisted October i, one of the four commissioned by Governor Buckingham to re-cruit the Battery; was mustered in the LTnited States service October26, 1861, and elected ist Lieutenant. Resigned October 6, 1S62. Lieutenant John S. Cannon, wliosc portrait appears on page13, was born in the city of New Haven, Conn., in October, ancestors on his fathers side were descended from the French 734 HISTORY AND REMINISCENCES Huguenots, who came to this country from the French West Indiesand settled at Stratford about the time of the revocation ofthe Edict of Nantes, On his mothers side he is descended fromold Revolutionar}^ stock, one of his ancestors, Caleb Trowbridge,being a member of Benedict Arnolds company, which, on receiptof the news of the battle of Lexington,
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