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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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FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1861—1865 305 for comrades Durgin and Hotchkiss had to go to the doctor to ask him to counteract the effects of too much clam pie. The camp was overhauled and laid out on a different plan, the commissary shanty was re-roofed and the side walls made watertight, though nothing made them mouse and rat proof. With a feeling of pride the comrades pointed out the great improvements made in the camp when the rain began to fall, heavy gales to blow and old Neptune was lashed into a fury, the high tides rose above the level of the park, and guns, caissons and everything had to be moved out of the way of the salt water. Comrade Arthur E. Clarke, on his return from his thirty days furlough, brought many messages from home for his comrades, and he tells, in his diary, how joyfully they were received. He found, however, that during his absence his tent had been burned to the ground. He says: Some ofmy boys had built a fire in the fireplace a few nights previous to our arrival; u

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