. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . t761 COLONEL MICHAEL CORCORAN i. -fe. ; AND HIS OFFICERS OF THE 69TH NEW YORK, IN FORT CORCORAN, 1861 The First ConnecticutHeavy Artillery was or-ganized from the FourthConnecticut Infantry inJanuary, 1862, and re-mained on duty in FortRichardson till regiment acrjuireda high reputation byserving continuouslythroughout the fouryears of warfare activelyin the field as hea\y ar-tillery. Very few of theotherhcavy regimentsin the army saw any serv-ice aside from garrisonduty, except while act-ing as infantry. TheFirst

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . t761 COLONEL MICHAEL CORCORAN i. -fe. ; AND HIS OFFICERS OF THE 69TH NEW YORK, IN FORT CORCORAN, 1861 The First ConnecticutHeavy Artillery was or-ganized from the FourthConnecticut Infantry inJanuary, 1862, and re-mained on duty in FortRichardson till regiment acrjuireda high reputation byserving continuouslythroughout the fouryears of warfare activelyin the field as hea\y ar-tillery. Very few of theotherhcavy regimentsin the army saw any serv-ice aside from garrisonduty, except while act-ing as infantry. TheFirst Connecticut HeavyA^rtillery served in thetwo big sieges of theArmy of the , April andMay, 18G2, and Peters-burg, June, 1804 to Fort Richardsonlay on the Virginialine of the Washingtondefenses about halfwaybetween Fort Corcoranand Fort Ellsworth, infront of Alexandria. Itssmooth-bore armamentconsisted of three 24-pounders on siege car-riages en barbette, two24-poimders on barbettecarriages en embrasure,one 24-pounder fieldhowitzer en embrasureand one 24-poimder f

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