. 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 . two miles in about thirty seconds, and from a Parrot gun in about half thattime. The flash of a gun at night, and the white smoke by day, indicatethe moment of discharge, and fifteen or twenty seconds give an abundanceof time to find a cover in a splinter proof, behind a trench, or somethingelse. It is wise and soldierly to do so, but many pay no attention to thesehissing, screaming, flying, in the day-time invisible de
. 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 . two miles in about thirty seconds, and from a Parrot gun in about half thattime. The flash of a gun at night, and the white smoke by day, indicatethe moment of discharge, and fifteen or twenty seconds give an abundanceof time to find a cover in a splinter proof, behind a trench, or somethingelse. It is wise and soldierly to do so, but many pay no attention to thesehissing, screaming, flying, in the day-time invisible devils, except to crackjokes at their expense, and occasionally one pays with his life for this fool-hardiness. A contraband related his experience in dodging shells on the battlefieldas follows: Ye see, massa, I was drivin an ambulance when a musketball come an kill my horse; and den, mighty soon, a shell come along anhe blow de wagon all to pieces—aft den I got off! On one occasion during the stay of the Battery on Folly Island Com-rade Joseph Fowler was detailed as orderly to General Vogdes. TheGeneral had just landed from some point or expedition where food had been. FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1861-1865 309 a rather scarce commodity, and even generals are human enough to behungry at times. A quantity of sausages looked so tempting that the(ieneraVs mouth watered, but he could not think of any way of themhome He looked longingly, and the longer he looked the more temptmgthe sausages appeared. Then he asked the sutler if he could not afeed bag in which he could carry the sausages. The sutler and atonce produced one. The sausages were weighed and put in the bag, which the orderly, Comrade Fowler, thenfastened behind his saddle. The Generalstarted up the beach, followed by theorderly on a brisk gallop, but they hadnot gone more than a mile or two beforeFovJler thought of the bag of sausagesand put his hand behind to feel if it wereall right. There seemed someth
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