. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . chit never before possessed. Loyal women wore miniaturebanners on their bonnets, and, with untiring ingenuity,blended the colors with almost every article of dress; andmen carried the emblem in pins and countless other patchwork of white, blue, and red, which had flauntedin our face* for generations, without exciting much emotion,in a single day stirred our pulses with an imperative call tobattle, and became the inspiration of national effort. All atonce, it meant the Declaration of Independence ; it meantL
. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . chit never before possessed. Loyal women wore miniaturebanners on their bonnets, and, with untiring ingenuity,blended the colors with almost every article of dress; andmen carried the emblem in pins and countless other patchwork of white, blue, and red, which had flauntedin our face* for generations, without exciting much emotion,in a single day stirred our pulses with an imperative call tobattle, and became the inspiration of national effort. All atonce, it meant the Declaration of Independence ; it meantLexington; it meant Bunker Hill and Saratoga ; it meantfreedom ; it meant the right of a majority to elect theirpresident; it meant the honor and the life of the a great crop of splendid banners came with the springroses; and hundreds of youths donned the blue uniform, andadvanced to the line of battle, impelled not more by a con-scious hatred of treason than by the wonderful glory thathad been kindled in the flag. ^ See Abbotts Civil War, vol. i. p. 144. «j^. CHAPTER IV. The Volunteers uniformed and equipped.—Response of Wealthy Men and Institutions. — Patriotic Work of the Women. — Another Revolutionary Sunday. — Call for Secondand Third Regiments. — The Troops at Rendezvous. — Outfit completed. — In Camp. — Rations and Beds. — Contributions flow in. — Drill and Discipline. — Sage Advice. — Depai-ture of the Three Regiments. iIE volunteers who, in these first memorabledays, rallied with patriotic impulse around thenational standard, were simply men in citizensdress. Few had either uniforms or Buckingham, as early as Jan. 17, hadwisely ordered the purchase, on his own responsibility, ofknapsacks, cartridge-boxes, bayonets, and every thing be-longing to the full equipment of five thousand men. TheState owned one thousand and twenty United-States musketsof the latest pattern, and more than two thousand percus-sion-muskets not very se
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