. 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 . general still deeply deplores the moral disgrace incurred by his troops inanything like voluntary or unnecessary association with the savage foes whoare not only warring against us, but persecuting our women and children,and destroying private property. The hands of such a foe are unworthythe friendly or courteous touch of a Confederate soldier. By command of General Beauregard: Jno. M. Otev, Assistant Adjiitant- Genera
. 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 . general still deeply deplores the moral disgrace incurred by his troops inanything like voluntary or unnecessary association with the savage foes whoare not only warring against us, but persecuting our women and children,and destroying private property. The hands of such a foe are unworthythe friendly or courteous touch of a Confederate soldier. By command of General Beauregard: Jno. M. Otev, Assistant Adjiitant- General. The practice continued at every opportunity, both sides feeling that thefight was between their respective States and that individual animosity hadno cause to exist in any save rare cases. A very great many were beginning to believe that the war was unnec-essarily prolonged and we find recorded in Comrade Hotchkiss diary thissentiment : There have been some severe fights along our lines, and a greatmany killed on each side. Most of the slaughter was on our left, and allfor naught. The prayers of the nation should go up as from one man, that (IHfllttMiw ^ w!j,«9 *■. ^ FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1861—1865 471 the Almighty should stay the tide of blood and misery, and give us peaceonce more. Those traitors in the North, who are hindering the Nation,oiight to be down here and put in the front rank; we ought to compel themto go through the hospitals first and witness the misery and carnage of war,and then let them dodge bullets for a time: it would do them good. A story is told of some Union pickets who started singing a songentitled Fairy Bell, and when the time came for the chorus, the enemyspickets on the post opposite struck up and their voices blended with those ofthe Pennsylvanians. In a letter home a Connecticut soldier wrote: The rebs. rigged up a plank, with a sail and rudder attached, and onit placed a drawer, evidently taken from an old secretary, in which theyput two R
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