. 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 . ake place with the object of capturing the pontoon bridgeacross the Appomattox. For some unexplained reason the mine did notexplode and the movement was countermanded. Major-General Ord, of the i8th Army Corps, had assumed temporarycommand of the Army of the James during the absence north of Major-General Butler, and he ordered the First Connecticut Light Battery toreport at his headquarters, near Petersburg, as early a
. 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 . ake place with the object of capturing the pontoon bridgeacross the Appomattox. For some unexplained reason the mine did notexplode and the movement was countermanded. Major-General Ord, of the i8th Army Corps, had assumed temporarycommand of the Army of the James during the absence north of Major-General Butler, and he ordered the First Connecticut Light Battery toreport at his headquarters, near Petersburg, as early as possible. At sunset on the following day the Battery marched from the RedoubtConverse to the headquarters, arriving there at 11 p. m. The rain wasdescending heavily making the march an unpleasant one; the comrades 554 HISTORY AND REMINISCENCES were feeling far from happy, for they had pitched their tents at RedoubtConverse, expecting to stay at least a few days. The fortifications in front of Petersburg, a greater portion of whichhad been completed by the end of July, commanded the admiration of themihtary world, and Grant was in a position to choose his own method of. POSTING GUARD IN THE RAIN. warfare—whether by direct assault; the slower process of a regular siege,or by heavy operations on the flank of the enemy. Day after day, everyfive minutes, a 30-pound Parrot shell was thrown into the city. Heavy siegeguns had been put into position and the practice was commenced of throw-mg a shell into the city every 15 minutes during the night. The shells ex- FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, lSGl—1865 555 ploded with a roar like thunder, crashing- throuoh roofs, firing- buildingsand startling- people in the dead of night. The city was doomed, not to aswift and terrible destruction, but to a slower one, wherein every hour ofthe day and night would be one of intense horror. At first, people tried tofind refuge in cellars; then they got careless and trusted to luck; thehighly-nervous were hys
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