. 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 . or ^ FlhSr LIGHT liATTHRY, iSGl—lsnr, 71)7 FRANCIS H. THOnPSON, of Hebron, Conn., enlisted November lo, i86t; mustered in United States serviceNovember 21, 1861; re-enlisted veteranDecember 19, 1863; mustered out atMancliester, opposite Richm(Mul, \a,,June II, 1865. He had the proud pleas-ure of bein^i^- witli the Battery when itentered the Confederate capital with thefirst Union troops. Francis H. Thompson was b(jrn in
. 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 . or ^ FlhSr LIGHT liATTHRY, iSGl—lsnr, 71)7 FRANCIS H. THOnPSON, of Hebron, Conn., enlisted November lo, i86t; mustered in United States serviceNovember 21, 1861; re-enlisted veteranDecember 19, 1863; mustered out atMancliester, opposite Richm(Mul, \a,,June II, 1865. He had the proud pleas-ure of bein^i^- witli the Battery when itentered the Confederate capital with thefirst Union troops. Francis H. Thompson was b(jrn inHebron, Conn., in 1842, and was the sonof Comrade James H. Thompson, wdioseancestral military history has been recorded under his HEZEKIAH TUTTLE, of Meriden, Conn., enlisted November 8, 1861;mustered in United States service November 15, i86f; transferredto 41st Company, 2d Battalion Veteran Reserve Corps, December2, 1863; honorably discharged November t6, 1864, term of enlist-ment having- expired. He was a brother of Comrade Lyman Tuttle. EBENEZER WAKELEY, Jr., of Bridgeport, Conn, (see portrait onpage 368 and exciting incident at battle Chester Station), enlistedOctober 31, 1861; mustered in United States service November 14,r86i; re-enlisted veteran December 14, 1863; wounded at battle .ofChester Station, Va., May 10, 1864; transferred to Company Hendricks, 19th Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps,January 30, 1865; honorably discharged from the service of theUnited States at Fort Porter, Buffalo, N. Y., on August 11, Wakeley is descended from Henry Wakeley, one ofthe original settlers of Stratford, Conn., whose son Jonathan, who 798 HISTORY AND REMINISCENCES died about the end of 1742, esta
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