. 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 . i^j^- ^^^ A DESERTED PICKET POST. CHAPTER XXXIV. SKIRMISHING IN FRONT OF HE second day of November witnessed the departurefrom the Battery of eight whose tiine had expired,the}^ having- been mustered in the United Statesservice on November 2d, 1861. Those who receivedan honorable discharge on that day were: SergeantJohn H. Merwin, of Milford; Corporal George VanHorn, of Milford; Artificer Leeds Brown, of East
. 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 . i^j^- ^^^ A DESERTED PICKET POST. CHAPTER XXXIV. SKIRMISHING IN FRONT OF HE second day of November witnessed the departurefrom the Battery of eight whose tiine had expired,the}^ having- been mustered in the United Statesservice on November 2d, 1861. Those who receivedan honorable discharge on that day were: SergeantJohn H. Merwin, of Milford; Corporal George VanHorn, of Milford; Artificer Leeds Brown, of EastGranby, and Privates Eugene Atwater, David Crossley, Edgar G. Davis,Hobert M. Doloph, John C. English, William M. Fowler, James H. Glad-ding, Marcus M. Hall, George R, Ingram, Hart Landon, William McNary,Lewis Sykes, John T. Sloan, W. D, Shepard and Lyman N. Tuttle, The mustering officer told Captain Clinton that he was losing some goodmen, and the Captain answered with a sigh that he knew it too well, but thatthey would not re-enlist. The comrades who declined to re-enlist were not less patriotic than theothers; they had served their country for three years, some even longer,and they thought they had done their duty and that some of those who hadbeen
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