. 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 . ; Comrade Davidsons gymnastic feats; ComradeCladdings close call; Comrade Griswold describes the awful condition of thehorses 426 CHAPTER XXIII. BATTLE OF DREWRYs BLUFF. Beauregards resolve to make the battle a decisive one ; Heckmans brigade captured; thedense fog; telegraph wire defence; enemy repulsed three times by Weitzelsdivision ; General Smith and the colored cavalry; Comrade Sloan tells how theofficers started
. 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 . ; Comrade Davidsons gymnastic feats; ComradeCladdings close call; Comrade Griswold describes the awful condition of thehorses 426 CHAPTER XXIII. BATTLE OF DREWRYs BLUFF. Beauregards resolve to make the battle a decisive one ; Heckmans brigade captured; thedense fog; telegraph wire defence; enemy repulsed three times by Weitzelsdivision ; General Smith and the colored cavalry; Comrade Sloan tells how theofficers started for the rear; centre section covers the retreat; while others werepanic-stricken not one of the Battery left his post; out of ammunition the sectionindulged in pantomimic loading and firing; Comrade Abels and the last shell;Comrade Sloan tells of the retreat; Terrys reliance on the Battery; Stop thosefellows, Scranton; Comrade Tallmadges steady nerve; description of the battleby Comrades Sloan, Griswold, Hotchkiss and Beecher; Butlers report; GeneralGrant blames Butler ; He is in a bottle strongly corked ; Butlers defence ; losseson both sides in the five days fight 439. MAP SHOWING LOYAL AND SECEDING STATES. Marching through New Haven Frontispiece. PAGE. Fac-simile of Cannons Call Fac-simile of Original Petition Camp Tyler Park Barracks Embarking on Ellwood Walter 7^ Throwing Dead Horses Overboard ?& Toad Sticker 78 Hilton Head • • 82 On Picket, Beaufort 84 Beaufort Arsenal 88 Got any Pies, Auntie? 89 Episcopal Church, Beaufort 9^ Rhett House, Beaufort 93 Searching for Buried Treasure 95 Wearing the Wooden Overcoat 1^9 A Slave Cabin 6 The Left vSection at Pocotaligo ^22 Battle of Secessionville ^56 Played Out ^71 On Picket ^77 The Battery Forge 214 A Free Contraband going to Market 228 A Hasty Supper on Picket 235 A Contraband 247 Drummer Boys 250 A Straggler • • • 267 Swamp Angel 275 Fort Sumter Before Bombardment 276 Fort Sumter After Bombardment 277 xi V ILL USTRA
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