TAILIEUCHUNG - The County Regiment

For those who dwell within its borders, or whose ancestral roots are bedded among its hills, the claims of Litchfield County to distinction are many and of many kinds. In these latter days it has become notable as the home of certain organizations of unique character and high purpose, which flourish under circumstances highly exceptional, and certainly no less highly appreciated. It is as part of the work of one of these that there is commemorated in this volume an organization of an earlier day, one distinctively of the county, in no way unique in its time, but of the highest purpose--the regiment gathered here for. | The County Regiment by Dudley Landon Vaill 1 The County Regiment by Dudley Landon Vaill The Project Gutenberg EBook of The County Regiment by Dudley Landon Vaill This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The County Regiment A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War Author Dudley Landon Vaill Release Date February 2 2009 EBook 27969 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COUNTY REGIMENT Produced by Chris Logan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive American Libraries. THE COUNTY REGIMENT Illustration Governor Buckingham The County Regiment by Dudley Landon Vaill 2 THE COUNTY REGIMENT A SKETCH OF THE SECOND REGIMENT OF CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER HEAVY ARTILLERY ORIGINALLY THE NINETEENTH VOLUNTEER INFANTRY IN THE CIVIL WAR BY DUDLEY LANDON VAILL LITCHFIELD COUNTY UNIVERSITY CLUB MCMVIII Copyright 1908 by DUDLEY L. VAILL PAR AVANCE This volume is one of a series published under the auspices of the Litchfield County University Club and in accordance with a proposition made to the club by one of its members Mr. Carl Stoeckel of Norfolk Connecticut. HOWARD WILLISTON CARTER Secretary. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Governor Buckingham Frontispiece Rev. Hiram Eddy facing page 7 Presentation of Colors September 10th 1862 10 The first encampment in Virginia 14 Fort Ellsworth near Alexandria May 1863 19 In the Defences. Guard mount 23 General Sedgwick 26 The first battle 35 Colonel Wessells 47 Colonel Kellogg 61 Colonel Mackenzie 76 Colonel Hubbard 84 Monument at Arlington 98 The County Regiment by Dudley Landon Vaill 3 PREFATORY

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• Colonel Wessells
• Dudley Landon Vaill
• Colonel Kellogg
• Governor Buckingham Frontispiece
• Colonel Hubbard
• General Sedgwick