. 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 . PLAYED OUT. CHAPTER VIII. SUMMER AT EAUFORT, the city of tropical beauty, whose groves ofrare foliage and luscious fruit made it famous the countryround, seemed quite home-like to the comrades of theright and centre sections of the Battery when theyreturned after the months experience on James Beaufort had been like an earthly Paradise in May,no words can express or describe its transcendant lovelin
. 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 . PLAYED OUT. CHAPTER VIII. SUMMER AT EAUFORT, the city of tropical beauty, whose groves ofrare foliage and luscious fruit made it famous the countryround, seemed quite home-like to the comrades of theright and centre sections of the Battery when theyreturned after the months experience on James Beaufort had been like an earthly Paradise in May,no words can express or describe its transcendant loveliness in July, andwhen the two sections returned the camp looked like a vision of peaceful wealthy planters, whose homes were like old-world palaces in theluxury of their surroundings, had known how to gather together everythingwhich would make life a pleasure. In one instance a house opened into ao-rove of tropical fruits and rare plants which would have been envied by aEuropean monarch. The Unionist oliQcers occupied these houses and themen enjoyed the beauties of the scene. The Sibley tents were cool and tempting on those hot days, the darko-reen of the pines, the artistic loveliness of the moss-covered li
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