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Title: Program of exercises at the dedication of a soldiers monument erected by the First Connecticut light battery, the Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Connecticut volunteers monument association at the Broadway park, New Haven, June 16, 1905
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: First light battery and the Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Connecticut volunteers monument association. (from old catalog)
Subjects: New Haven, Conn. Soldiers' monument. (from old catalog) Connecticut -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: (New Haven, Conn., Press of the Price, Lee & Adkins co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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to August, 1865, covering substantially four years, during which
time it received 600 recruits, which added to the 1,008 officers and
men with which it left the State in September, 1861, made a total
of 1,608 men who saw service in its ranks during the war. Its
casualties during its four years of service numbered 877, being
more than fifty-four per cent, of its membership. Its operations
covered a wide stretch of territory, embracing the District of
Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida.
It participated in the first expedition and engagement of con-
sequence after Bull Kun, namely, the Sherman expedition of 1861,
and the bombardment and capture of Hilton Head, South Carolina,
and jointly with the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, was the first
Union force to land on the shores of South Carolina. During the
four years it participated in more than thirty engagements and
affairs in five different States, the more important of which were the
bombardment and capture of Hilton Head, S. C; Fort Pulaski,
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Ga.; charge on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S. C.; actions near
Bermuda Hundred, Va.; Siege of Petersburg, Va.; actions near
Eichmond, Va., 1864; assault and capture of Fort Fisher, N. C,
and Wilmington, N. C, and was with General Sherman in North
Carolina when the war was practically closed by the surrender of
the last great Confederate Army under Johnston.
It had as regimental commanders the brave aud gallant Chat-
field, Eedfield A. Duryea, a careful and conscientious officer, and
Alfred P. Rockwell, who was the last colonel, and who possessed all
the attributes of a good officer, and was highly respected for his
bravery, high character, integrity and devotion to the interests of
his command. It served consecutively under those great com-
manders, Generals T. W. Sherman, Gilmore, Butler, Grant, our
own gallant Terry, and General William T. Sherman. During all
its years of service its gallant men never shrank from any call of
duty, no mater how dangerous or hazardous the task; no command-
ing officer ever criticised its conduct under fire, and it never hesi
tated or wavered in the performance of the duty which at times of
awful carnage and death devolved upon it.

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