. 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 . rear on the pike and charged up to it, expecting togobble us up with our supports, but the two flanking companies of the 7th Connecticut Volunteers, armed with Spencers,lined up on the side of the road in the woods andstopped their rush most beautifully. It was thefirst time those particular Johnnies had met withthat kind of a gun, and they could not imder-stand how our fellows could load and fire so in the e
. 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 . rear on the pike and charged up to it, expecting togobble us up with our supports, but the two flanking companies of the 7th Connecticut Volunteers, armed with Spencers,lined up on the side of the road in the woods andstopped their rush most beautifully. It was thefirst time those particular Johnnies had met withthat kind of a gun, and they could not imder-stand how our fellows could load and fire so in the engagement, Comrade Ebene-zer Wakeley was wounded while going for ammu-nition. At the Historians request, ComradeWakeley tells the story in his own way: I was driving the lead team on the fifthcaisson. There were three teams, one at thewheel, the centre and lead. The fight had beenproceeding for some time. Reinforcements werereaching the enemy, some by the railroad fromRichmond, some by the dirt road, and, as theyarrived, they came into action and were drivingin, the troops left to guard the position the day before. But we weresending reinforcements as fast as EBENEZER WAKELEY,Joined Nov. 14, iSot Re-enlist-ed Vet. Dec. 14, 1863. WoundedMay 10, 1864, at Chester to Co. I, igth RegtV. R C, Jan. 33, 65. DischargedAug. II. 65. Treasurer of Chris-tian Association during its en-tire existence. FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1S61—1865 369 The two sections of our battery drove on ahead. I know we passedthe 6th Connecticnt. I remember as I was on the ground, or dismounted, aregiment came right through tlie woods and up to our side of the ChesterStation Road. This side of the road Where our caissons had rounded to andfaced towards the railroad had a very good stone fence, but, on the otherside, it was a hedge fence, with now and then a large tree in orabout the hedge. To come to the caissons from the guns, quite a de-pression in the land was to be crossed, which, wi
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