. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . citizens and proud relatives listened to thestory of their exposures and services. These gatheringsgreatly augmented the martial spirit througliout the State. When the Second Regiment was mustered out. Col. Terry 1 In value, upwards of two hundred tliousand dollars. I This service was performed in thirty-six hours; during which time they wereentirely without food, and drenched in the tremendous rain that raged without inter-mission.— N. Y. Times. 100 CONNECTICUT DURING THE REBELLION. presented gold medals, for bravery
. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . citizens and proud relatives listened to thestory of their exposures and services. These gatheringsgreatly augmented the martial spirit througliout the State. When the Second Regiment was mustered out. Col. Terry 1 In value, upwards of two hundred tliousand dollars. I This service was performed in thirty-six hours; during which time they wereentirely without food, and drenched in the tremendous rain that raged without inter-mission.— N. Y. Times. 100 CONNECTICUT DURING THE REBELLION. presented gold medals, for bravery on the field, to Color-Sergeant Austin P. Kirkham of Derby, and Sergeant RobertLeggett of New London. The men of these regiments re-enlisted almost without anexception, and jive hundred of them afterwards held com-missions in the array. Of these, about one hundred andeighty were from the First Regiment, two hundred from theSecond, and one hundred and forty from the Third. Threebecame major-generals, four brigadier-generals, and morethan eighty field and staff CHAPTER VII. The Effect of the Defeat at Bull Run. — Second Uprising. —The Fifth Regiment goes toHarpers Fen-y. — Six Regiments begun. — A Squadron of Cavalry. —Peace-Flagsand Peace-Meetings. — Seymours Resolutions. — Concurrent Action. — Goshen,Bloomfield, Darien, Easton, Cornwall, Sharon, Prospect, North Guilford, Stoning-ton. — A New Sayhrook Platform.—New Fairfield. — The Bridgeport Farmer.—How Stepney stopped the War. — The Farmer Office sacked. — Gov. Bucking-hams Proclamation. — Life and Character of Gen. Lyon. — His Bravery and De-cision. — His Heroic Death. UR defeat at the battle of Bull Rim corrected, asnothing else could have done, an extravagantestimate of our own strem»;th. It taug;ht usthat the rebels had no respect for the nationalauthority, except just so much as could be en-forced at the point of the bayonet: it swept awa}^ our ninety-days optimism, and show
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