. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . , and he was carried across the river (on the Union side),and there buried. The man in Company A who was wounded wascarried to the shore soon after he was hit and put aboard the gun-boat, where he was well attended to. Monday night we were alltaken aboard_the gun-boats and carried across the river, when wemarched to camp. A few days ago a body of cavalry went across the river, wentnearly to Chuckatuck, and took up the body of the cavalryman,who was killed and buried
. The story of the Twenty-first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . , and he was carried across the river (on the Union side),and there buried. The man in Company A who was wounded wascarried to the shore soon after he was hit and put aboard the gun-boat, where he was well attended to. Monday night we were alltaken aboard_the gun-boats and carried across the river, when wemarched to camp. A few days ago a body of cavalry went across the river, wentnearly to Chuckatuck, and took up the body of the cavalryman,who was killed and buried there. They brought him across theriver and buried him on this side. Soon after we buried him (atthe time he was shot), the rebels came and dug him up to get hisboots, but we had taken them off before we buried him. 124 Twenty-first Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. Our regiment is now about six miles from Suffolk, on the Nanse-mond River, building a battery. Our company is doing guardduty at General Duttons headquarters, about a mile from theregiment. We have enough to eat and drink and enough to do. (Signed) Wm. B. 1 WSwMi&m
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