. 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 . at Fanny was the proud mother of six little pug-nosed was not a man in all three sections but rejoiced, and so thoroughlythat the heat and its discomfort were forgotten. As though to share in the joy the 6th Connecticut arrived at the camp,headed by its regimental band playing a lively march. The afternoon was one of misery to the left section, for LieutenantCannon, for some reason which has never been satisf
. 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 . at Fanny was the proud mother of six little pug-nosed was not a man in all three sections but rejoiced, and so thoroughlythat the heat and its discomfort were forgotten. As though to share in the joy the 6th Connecticut arrived at the camp,headed by its regimental band playing a lively march. The afternoon was one of misery to the left section, for LieutenantCannon, for some reason which has never been satisfactorily explained. FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1861-1865 177 ordered the section to hitch up and proceed along the shell road a distanceof two miles. The section was out in the broiling sun for over three hours,and the men were nearly exhausted, for in the early morning there had beenthe usual inspection, followed by a drill, a thing of very rare occurrence onSunday. The monotony of camp life was varied by picket duty, it being a rule inthe camp that each regiment should take its turn at the ten days picketservice, ani a section of the Battery always accompanied the ON PICKET. This picket duty called them out to some of the finest plantations in thesuburbs of the city, along the most perfect shell road ever made by man,with hedges on either side, and its smooth surface glistening in the sunlightlike a jeweled pathway. On the return from one of these expeditions, when the enemys picketshad been firing at the Unionists incessantly, causing the men to be on dutyfor thirty-six hours at a stretch, an amusing incident occurred. A number of darkies and their mules followed the section on its returnto BeauforL Corporal Huntington, feeling tired, weary and sore from thelong and strained watchfulness, had a happy thought. He saw the mulesand imagined that it would be much pleasanter to ride into camp on a mulesback than on the hard gun limbers. He acted on his thought by pickingout
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