. History of the Eighteenth regiment Conn. volunteers in the war for the Union . der an old shed acrossthe street. That night, at nine oclock, the first man leit, andat hve the next morning the last man had gone. About fiftywere finally recaptured by the cavalry, who scoured the State inall directions; among them being Col. Ely, in a state of ^reatexhaustion. He was taken by the cavalry, forty-two miles out,after being absent four days. In March, 1864, Col. William G. Ely, Lieut. Col. MonroeNichols, Capt. Ci. VV. Warner, Lieuts. I. N. Kibbe, M. V. ), |. P. Rockwell and John A. Francis
. History of the Eighteenth regiment Conn. volunteers in the war for the Union . der an old shed acrossthe street. That night, at nine oclock, the first man leit, andat hve the next morning the last man had gone. About fiftywere finally recaptured by the cavalry, who scoured the State inall directions; among them being Col. Ely, in a state of ^reatexhaustion. He was taken by the cavalry, forty-two miles out,after being absent four days. In March, 1864, Col. William G. Ely, Lieut. Col. MonroeNichols, Capt. Ci. VV. Warner, Lieuts. I. N. Kibbe, M. V. ), |. P. Rockwell and John A. Francis were paroled andreturned to the North, their exchange following. The otherofficers of the Eighteenth were, on May 7th, sent to Dan-ville, Va., and alter a few days transferred to the new stock-ade prison at Macon. In December, Lieut. D. W. Hakesand Capt Charles D. Bovven, with Lieuts. A. H. Lindsay,George Kies and A. G. Scranton were paroled and went February, 1865, the men and balance of the officers of theEighteenth were sent to Charlotte. On the. way, Lieut. Henry. iO^^, CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS. 165 F. Cowles jumped from the cars, was secreted by the negroes,and joined Shermans advance cavalry. Lieut. Ezra D. Carpen-ter escaped from the hospital, and occupied Columbia the daybefore Gen. Sherman. The remaining officers were paroled atWilmington, N. C, in March 1865; having been in captivitytwenty-one months, without the loss of a man. The following letter from .Surgeon Holbrook, written soonafter his release from Libby, will give a truthful idea of the lifethe officers of the Kighteenth led, while conhned in that memor-able prison: Some account of the daily round of duties and occupations inLibby. might be worth recital. With the first grey dawn of themorning, the sleepers scattered over the floors of the variousrooms, as thickly as they could well be stowed, were aroused toconsciousness by the stenatorian voice of a stalwart darkey, cryingout, All four copies of the
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