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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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es with their families, sittingat tables loaded with dainties, so palatable to them after three yearsof army rations, their comrades at the front were far from happy. ComradeHotchkiss wrote on Christmas Day: Had inspection of the wholeBattery; weather fine, mud nearly knee-deep when not frozen up.Rations for dinner to-day boiled beans and pork; cant eat the beans, dontwant the pork, so went without dinner. Coffee and hard tack for supper. How the minds of the comrades must have spanned the distancebetween Virginia and Connecticut ! How, as they sat eating their dinnerof pork and beans and supper of coffee and hard tack, they must havethought of Comrades Griswold, and Sloan, and Beecher, of Tallmadge andMarcus M. Hall, of Bliss and Fowler and the others who would be eatingtheir turkey and juicy roast beef in comfort, with their families round themlistening to their tales of glory on the field, of hardships in the camp, ofthe tragedies and comedies which mingle daily in a soldiers life.
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FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, J SO 1-1865 639 Thoughts would picture scenes like these, and the heavy boom of thedistant cannon would be forgotten for a time and the ears would be filledwith the carols and songs of home at Christmas time. But the bugle sound brought the comrades back to the realities ofcamp life, and the dreams were dissipated by the shrieking of the wind andthe rattling of the rain on the canvas roofs of the log houses. There was a listlessness about the comrades that Christmas; so manyof the old faces missing, so many new ones seen, that even the Batteryseemed to be changed. Yet we. read and hear how the old comradeschummed together that day, and how much dearer each was to each nowthat the old members were so few in number. But if the minds of the comrades in camp were filled with thoughts ofhome and departed comrades, what dreams and visions would pass beforethe mind of the lonely picket, who had no companionship but his thoughts.Even his dinner—and a Christmas dinner se

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