. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . stants rest, and had but little rest forthe previous two days. Notwithstanding the hardships we havebeen through, we have very few sick men. I think it is theirpluck which keeps them up. 204 Twenty-first Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. Sunday, May papers did not give anything like a correct account of thefight on Monday. The Twenty-first was at that time assigned toHeckmans brigade, and although we fought five hours in one ofthe most difficult situations in
. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . stants rest, and had but little rest forthe previous two days. Notwithstanding the hardships we havebeen through, we have very few sick men. I think it is theirpluck which keeps them up. 204 Twenty-first Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. Sunday, May papers did not give anything like a correct account of thefight on Monday. The Twenty-first was at that time assigned toHeckmans brigade, and although we fought five hours in one ofthe most difficult situations in which a regiment can be placed, weare not mentioned at all in the published accounts. But this is ofno consequence, except as it shows the incorrectness of I can discharge my duty acceptably to Him, what others maysay or think is of little moment. Some officers go so far as to saythat the stubborn fight made by the Twenty-first in the fog andobscurity of the woods saved the entire corps from destruction onthat morning. But how that may be I know not. I only knowthat we tried to do our duty in the sight of GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT. Operations On and Near the James River. 205 chaptee ^ix^r. OPERATIONS ON AND NEAR THE JAMES RIVER. (CTXTNE, 1864.) Immediately after the battle of Drevvrys Bluff, ColonelArthur H. Dutton, of the Twenty-first Connecticut Volun-teers, who had previously occupied the position of Chief ofStaff under Major-General William F Smith, was assigned tothe command of the Third Brigade of the First DivisionEighteenth Army Corps. The brigade was composed ofthe Twenty-first Connecticut, Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania, OneHundred and Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania, and Ninety-secondNew York, and occupied a position near the center of theline of intrenchments stretching from the James to the Appo-mattox Rivers. Here we were for several days engaged in strengthening theworks upon our front, while nearly every night we were calledout to repel some assault of
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