. 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 . se wooden overcoats were made from barrels, with one headknocked out and a hole sawed in the other just -large enough to allow amans head to go through, so that the barrel would rest on his this garb the comrade was compelled to march all day in a conspicuouspart of the camp, watched by the guard, so that every soldier could see himand profit by the terrible example. On the barrel the word swindlerwas paint
. 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 . se wooden overcoats were made from barrels, with one headknocked out and a hole sawed in the other just -large enough to allow amans head to go through, so that the barrel would rest on his this garb the comrade was compelled to march all day in a conspicuouspart of the camp, watched by the guard, so that every soldier could see himand profit by the terrible example. On the barrel the word swindlerwas painted in large letters. Another comrade succeeded in passing adollar label for ten dollars and received a similar punishment. The poor FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1861—1865 109 negroes knew no better and they had such implicit confidence in theYankees that they believed everything they were told. To the honor ofthe Battery it must be recorded that only two or three at most of its memberswere ever guilty of these dishonest practices, and even those lookedupon their acts rather as sharp practice than crime. Punishments were often inflicted for very trivial offences, and while, at. WEARING THE WOODEN OVERCOAT. the time, the disgrace was unpleasant, in later days the comrades laughedover the ridiculous punishments inflicted. Comrade Charles W. Gesnerrecently wrote to Historian Beecher as follows: I think that I can claim the honor of being the first man in the FirstConnecticut Light Battery to be mounted on a barrel-head as a mode ofpunishment. 110 HISTORY AND HEMINISCEKCES
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