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Title: 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
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beecher, Herbert W De Morgan, John, ed
Subjects: United States. Army. Connecticut Artillery Battery, 1st (1861-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: New York, A. T. De La Mare Ptg. and Pub. Co., Ltd
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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land in the water about half way to the shoreand so give me a good wetting. * * * Every soldier has some story of a narrow escape to tell, and it iscertainly remarkable how danger is sometimes diverted from one to fall onanother. Comrade Joseph Doolittle says that he was cannoneer on thegun whose wheel was struck at Proctors Creek, and had, for some reason,changed places with Curtis Bacon for a few minutes. It was in that briefspace of time that the wheel was struck and Comrade Bacon injured soseverely that he died in the hospital from his wounds. * * * Recalling the small mortality in the Battery during its three years ofactive service, Comrade Sloan writes: The Battery lost nineteen membersby disease during the war; eleven of these died the first year, five the sec-ond, two the third, and one the fourth. I have compared this death-ratewith the statistics published of the mortality from malaria and other diseasesduring the Spanish-American war, and I have come to the conclusion that
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FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, )Sf;i—7S65 S75 the medical profession has not made any material advance in caring for large camps. * * * Comrade Huntington facetiously and yet pathetically recalls ComradeLewis Sykes, who has since then answered his last call on earth and passedover to the majority: My head driver was Lewis Sykes, a man whose likewe shall never see again. May his feet never weary nor his shadow ever beless! He was the only driver I had in my detachment who polished his in-side spur for Sunday inspection. Comrade Huntington loves a joke and isan inveterate humorist. He says that Lieutenant Dickinson was always alucky fellow, except at poker. I remember he could never distinguish anvbugle call save that which summoned us to dinner, but that was his misfor-tune. We cannot all have music in our souls! * * * Some of the comrades disliked driving and would do anything ratherthan ride a horse. One, whose name shall be kept secret, could ride verywell, but his ambition was to be a cann

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