. 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 . a time no notice was taken ofthe rumors. At last there came the news that the Battery was to form part of theforces of Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler, and the spirits of the menbeat with patriotic pride. They remembered how Butler had been one ofthe very first to raise a regiment and proceed to Washington to save thecapital. Rugged, erratic, peculiar Butler might be, but every soldierloved him. On January 8, 1862, Lieut.
. 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 . a time no notice was taken ofthe rumors. At last there came the news that the Battery was to form part of theforces of Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler, and the spirits of the menbeat with patriotic pride. They remembered how Butler had been one ofthe very first to raise a regiment and proceed to Washington to save thecapital. Rugged, erratic, peculiar Butler might be, but every soldierloved him. On January 8, 1862, Lieut. Porter gave out the news that GeneralButler was going to review the Battery that day. What a straightening up of the camp there was! How each man brushedhis uniform and tried to look like a brave soldier. Butler was pleased with the Battery and said many complimentary thingsto the officers. He left and the Battery remained, but only for oneweek more. The very day after Gen. Butler reviewed the Battery, the order cameto prepare to leave camp, and on January 13, the First Connecticut LightBattery left Camp Tyler never to return. CHAPTER III. FROM NEW HAVEN TO PORT HOUGH every man in the Battery had been wishingfor the order to go to the front, yet when on Saturday,the eleventh of January, it was definitely known thatearly on Monday the Battery was to march to NewHaven and there take the steamer for New York,the men felt their hearts throb with a new excite-ment. Leaving their native State, it might be for ever, was a serious matter,because it meant parting from wife and mother, from sister and father, fromthe dear girl whose face was imaged on the heart, and that parting mightbe a last farewell, for war was to them a near reality. And yet, those bravesweethearts and mothers were proud of the men who had Donned the peerless uniformOf good old Uncle Sam. Many a noble woman, as she bade the dear one farewell, felt in herheart, if she did not utter the words: Youre dearer to
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