. 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 . ^. ■9 i-Y |. ^y~^\ O FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1861—1865 157 There, darn you, now I guess youve got it! Often round the camp fires at re-unions since that day the incident hasbeen recalled, and many times at military receptions Gen. Hawley hastold the story, and with great dramatic power mimicked ComradeNorton. While the confusion lasted, Comrade Oliver Abels was seen pickingup scraps of leather, parts of harnesses belonging
. 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 . ^. ■9 i-Y |. ^y~^\ O FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1861—1865 157 There, darn you, now I guess youve got it! Often round the camp fires at re-unions since that day the incident hasbeen recalled, and many times at military receptions Gen. Hawley hastold the story, and with great dramatic power mimicked ComradeNorton. While the confusion lasted, Comrade Oliver Abels was seen pickingup scraps of leather, parts of harnesses belonging to the horses that hadbeen killed. He seemed perfectly oblivious of his surroundings, andalthough his comrades shouted to him he took no notice until one of themwent up and asked : What are you doing there, Abels ? I wont let the damned rebels have a strapof our harnesses,he replied. It was with difficulty that he could be per-suaded to relinquish his useless task. Comrade Holly was ordered to moimt thesoimd horse and go back for another team. Heconfesses he felt a bit shaky, but with character-istic modesty he never said that he had been sick,and ought to have been i
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