. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . man of the Fifth, to whom, mainlj^,the regiment owed its efficiency in discipline and drill, Avascompelled on account of ill health to resign, and was suc-ceeded by Col. Warren W. Packer of Groton, who went outas captain of Company G. A correspondent wrote theProvidence Journal at this time as follows : — We learned a day or two since some interesting facts ofthe Fifth Connecticut Regiment, which, for army-life, is asanomalous as it is pleasing. Its commander. Col. Packer,we are assured, is a teetotaler; neither drinki
. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . man of the Fifth, to whom, mainlj^,the regiment owed its efficiency in discipline and drill, Avascompelled on account of ill health to resign, and was suc-ceeded by Col. Warren W. Packer of Groton, who went outas captain of Company G. A correspondent wrote theProvidence Journal at this time as follows : — We learned a day or two since some interesting facts ofthe Fifth Connecticut Regiment, which, for army-life, is asanomalous as it is pleasing. Its commander. Col. Packer,we are assured, is a teetotaler; neither drinking any intoxi-cating liquors himself, nor allowing any to his men. Itschaplain. Rev. Mr. Welch, is declared to be the very best inthe army, though never preaching a sermon; and its sutler,Mr. Randall, who acted in this capacity over two years, neversold or offered for sale a single drop of liquor. At Stafford Court House, the men once more built them-selves winter huts; and occupied them, with only theusual incidents of camp-life, until the army was thawed outin CHAPTER XX. The First Connecticut Battery and Seventh Eegiment in Florida. — Capture of St. JohnsBhifF. — Sixth and Seventh in South Carohna. — Battle of Pocotaligo. — The Twelfthat Camp Parapet. — Yankee Enterprise. — Anecdotes of the Thirteenth. — Sen^icesand Sufferings of the Ninth at Vicksburg. — The Battle of Baton Rouge. — The LaFourche Campaign.—Battle of Georgia Landing. — Thanksgiving. — The Nine-months Regiments leave Long Island. — The Twenty-eighth at Pensacola. — Destruc-tion of a Rebel Gunboat. UPvING the heat of the summer of 1862, theSixth and Seventh, with the First Battery, re-mained at Hilton Head ; while military inactionreigned, and the jurisdiction of the departmentcontracted. The members of the Seventhnamed their camp Camp Hitchcock, after their lamentedcomrade. In September, an expedition was planned to capture afort at St. Johns Bluff, Fla., which had consid
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