. 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 . and vSloan was small, the side of beef large;he was a light weight, it was heavy. The nighthad cast its shadows over the scene and that addedto the difficulty. What was to be done? ComradeSloan knew that the Battery wanted that meat,and on him rested the responsibility of getting itto them. He braced himself up and with almostsuper-human strength, and with that determina-tion which ennobles men and creates h
. 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 . and vSloan was small, the side of beef large;he was a light weight, it was heavy. The nighthad cast its shadows over the scene and that addedto the difficulty. What was to be done? ComradeSloan knew that the Battery wanted that meat,and on him rested the responsibility of getting itto them. He braced himself up and with almostsuper-human strength, and with that determina-tion which ennobles men and creates heroes, he JOHN T. SLOAN, of New Haven. tuggcd and wrcstled with that side of beef until he Enlisted Oct. 27, :86i ; mus- . , . , . tered inNov. 2,1861; discharged o-Qt it again across the back of his liorsc. No one Nov. 2. 1S64, time expired. ever quite understood how the Boy of the Bat-tery was able to accomplish the deed, but he did, and nice juicy meat wasserved out to his comrades in proof of his brave act of determination. The Connecticut Light Battery were not the only sufferers from lack offood. The Historian of the Sixth Connecticut Infantry declares that the. FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1861-1865 171 whole expedition was shockingly managed. Ten thousand men were sentto James Island on a five days march with two days rations. The Sixth and Seventh Connecticut regiments went back to EdistoIsland with General Wright, while the remaining forces were sent to otherposts. On the evening of the Fourth of July, 1862, the Battery embarked onthe steamer Delaware, and on the next morning once more arrived atBeaufort.
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