. 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 . on prisoners on the parapet of Sumter during the bombardment, welaughed over it and thought it was a good joke and said, now let theYankees kill their own men if they want to. But when I was taken prisonerand placed in the trenches I did not see the fun at all, in fact, I thoughtit was rather tragical. FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1861—1865 277 The greatest consternation was caused in the streets of Charleston whenthe shells fe
. 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 . on prisoners on the parapet of Sumter during the bombardment, welaughed over it and thought it was a good joke and said, now let theYankees kill their own men if they want to. But when I was taken prisonerand placed in the trenches I did not see the fun at all, in fact, I thoughtit was rather tragical. FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1861—1865 277 The greatest consternation was caused in the streets of Charleston whenthe shells fell, but at the thirty-sixth discharge the Swamp Angel burst,and it was never replaced. The comrades waiting for instructions to march were roused from theirslumbers on the early morning of August 17, when all the batteries onMorris Island opened fire on Fort Sumter. Sumter seemed impregnable, but Gillmore thought it must be reduced,because, while it was there strongly fortified, the navy could not co-operatein the attack on Charleston. Day and night the batteries poured tons of iron into Sumter. In aweek its barbette guns were dismounted, its walls were knocked into a. FORT SUMTER AFTER THE BOMBARDMENT. shapeless mass of ruins, and its value as anything but a rude cover forinfantry was gone. Such a quantity of cannon balls and shells were pouredinto its debris as to form an almost solid mass of iron, practically impreg-nable. Sumter was never reduced by artillery fire, and did not fall intothe hands of the Unionists until the capitulation of Charleston afterShermans march to the sea. The Connecticut Battery did picket duty frequently, being called on toguard the causeway from Folly to James Island. Life was easy, and someof the comrades became very independent and almost disobedient. ComradeAlfred E. Leonard was detailed as orderly to Gen. Vogdes and became a 278 HISTORY AND REMINISCENCES favorite with the General. On one occasion, however, the pleasant relationswere strained
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