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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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remained during the expedition.Hawley*s brigade followed Plaisteds along the Richmond and Petersburg-turnpike, near Chester Station, and bivouacked at Perdues farm, furnishing300 men for picket duty. Two men of the 7th Connecticut were woundedon picket. The entire command was ordered to bivouac and lie on their armsduring the night. A very heavy rain during the day had served to injurethe roads, and the soldiers slept that night, drenched to the skin. Gen. Weitzel had skirmished all day after leaving Gen. Gillmores lineof pickets, and had succeeded in driving the enemy in front of him until hereached the turnpike crossing of Red House Creek. A reconnoissance made by Gen. William Farrar Smith, better known as Baldy Smith, during the afternoon, on Gen. Weitzels right, developedthe fact that the enemy held the left bank of Proctors Creek with artillery,and that the slopes were steep and heavily wooded. No infantrywas seen. During the night Gen. Marstons Brigade, which had formed a second
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THE HALF-WAY HOUSE, As the inn was called, was the scene of many skirmishes and someserious engagements. It is still standing and looks very much as it did in the days whenFederals and Confederates fought round it as a centre. FIRST LIGH7 BATTERY, 1861—1865 397 line behind Gen. Weitzel, was ordered to report to Gen. Gillmore for thepurpose of making a flank movement around the head of Proctors Creek. On the morning of May 13th, the loth Army Corps moved to the leftand took the extreme left of the line, the First Connecticut Battery beingtransferred to the i8th Army Corps, under the command of Gen. W. F.Smith. Early on that morning, Gen. Smith, with Gen. Brooks, made a recon-noissance on the front, finding a practicable country for infantry acrossCattle Run, a branch of Proctors Creek, and beyond that a high hill whichoverlooked and commanded the left bank of the creek and vicinity of theturnpike. A brigade of infantry was at once thrown forward on the hill, andsharpshooters so place

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