. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . and Color-Corporal DanielL. Smith of Bethel, a conscientious, prayerful, resolute so\-C ; both slain while bearing forward the flag. Here nobly SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 221 fell, also, Corporal Oliver G. Brady of Norwalk, Blair ofNorth Haven, Bailey of Berlin, Thompson of Windham, andothers. After the battle, Capt. H. W. Daboll of Groton, previouslythe eighth captain in rank, succeeded to the command of theregiment; all his superiors being either killed, captured, ordisabled. He was in hospital on sick-leave before t
. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . and Color-Corporal DanielL. Smith of Bethel, a conscientious, prayerful, resolute so\-C ; both slain while bearing forward the flag. Here nobly SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 221 fell, also, Corporal Oliver G. Brady of Norwalk, Blair ofNorth Haven, Bailey of Berlin, Thompson of Windham, andothers. After the battle, Capt. H. W. Daboll of Groton, previouslythe eighth captain in rank, succeeded to the command of theregiment; all his superiors being either killed, captured, ordisabled. He was in hospital on sick-leave before the battle. On Aug. 18, the Fifth fell back with Popes army to theline of the Rappahannock, and, as Jacksons movementaround the right flank progressed, receded still farther; re-maining to protect the baggage-trains near Bristow Station,while the rest of the army advanced to the second battle ofBull Run. When the rebel army, supported by three Fed-eral generals, had succeeded in defeating Pope, the Fifth waswithdrawn nearer Washington, thoroughly exhausted by CHAPTER XV. The Summer of 1862. — The Fourteenth Regiment called for. — The Military Situation.— Appeal of the Executive.— Enthusiastic Response by the People. — War-Meetingsand Local Effort. — Recruiting Committees. — The Fourteenth full.—New Havenraises the Fifteenth. — Hartford recruits the Sixteenth. — Seventeenth from FairfieldCounty. — Eiglitcenth from New London County.—Nineteenth from LitchfieldCounty.—Twentieth and Twenty-first organized. — The Second Battery goes fromBridgeport. — All assigned to the Army of the Potomac. URING the winter of 1861-2, the Union forcesmade constant inroads upon the Rebellion;and the magnificent prophecies of Mr. Sewardseemed about to be fulfilled. The War De-partment issued orders, April 3, discontinuingthe recruiting service in every State. Men about to enlistturned gratefully to peaceful pursuits, assured that no moresoldiers would be need
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