. 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 . onstantly commingle in camp life. The worldis made up of light and shade, of sorrow and gayety. Human nature is thesame on the tented field as in the city streets. All round men were dying,the groans of the sufferers could be heard far from the hospital tents, andyet those who were in good health made the best of life and enjoyed theirjokes, sang their songs, and told their yarns as healthy men will. Comrade William Bro
. 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 . onstantly commingle in camp life. The worldis made up of light and shade, of sorrow and gayety. Human nature is thesame on the tented field as in the city streets. All round men were dying,the groans of the sufferers could be heard far from the hospital tents, andyet those who were in good health made the best of life and enjoyed theirjokes, sang their songs, and told their yarns as healthy men will. Comrade William Brown, of Hebron, was one of the oddest charactersin the Battery. He was very large, and through his eccentric manners andawkward gait was frequently made the butt of practical jokes by his tentcomrades. Brown had the character of being the champion snorer of the he commenced his nasal trumpetings he would wake every one in thetent. No one could sleep until Brown was silenced. The noise ofmusketry, the booming of cannons, would not disturb the comrades, butBrowns snoring was something too awful to be endured. Comrade Andrew FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1S61—1865 185. ANDREW H TURNER, of New Oct. 27, 1861; mus-tered in Nov. 2, 1S61; promotedCorporal May 25, 1862; re-en-listed Veteran Dec. 19, 1863;promoted Sergeant Oct. 27,1864; mustered out June n, H. Turner made it his to silence his tent-comrade Brown wheneverthe snoring fit commenced. Frequently during the night, when all wasstill and quiet reigned, Brown would commence,and then the loud voice of Comrade Turner wouldbe heard shouting: Brown, dry up! A joke was played on Comrade Brown one daywhich came near causing him the loss of his bigtoe and placing his life in danger. Brown hadlarge feet and big toes which matched the were the cause of many jests and good-natured bantering. One rainy day as eight or ten comrades werelying in a circle in one of the Sibley tents, withtheir feet pointe
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