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 DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT 
 
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 ANDERSONVILLE GEORGIA 
 
 October 23 1907 
 
 IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF CONNECTICUT WHO SUFFERED 
 IN SOUTHERN MILITARY PRISONS 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 Notes on the Andersoiiville Trip, 
 
 Notes by a Guest, 
 
 Dedication Exercises, ........ 
 
 Eesolutions of the Legislature, 
 
 List of Connecticut Soldiers Buried in Andersonville Cemetery, 
 List of Connecticut Survivors of Andersonville Prison, . 
 
 List of Guests, 
 
 Eesolutions by Connecticut ex-prisoners. 
 Description of Stockade at Andersonville, 
 Plan of Andersonville Prison, 
 Letter from Charles E. Norton, Esq., 
 Quotation from Boston Transcript, 
 Making of the Monument, 
 Itinerary, 
 
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NOTES ON THE ANDERSONVILLE TRIP. 
 
 WITH a promptness quite umuilitary, the " Ander- 
 son ville Special" left New Haven on schedule 
 time at 1 p. m., Monday, October 21, 1907. The 
 conductor's call of "All aboard" found all in their 
 places, with nobody left. No happier 103 people ever 
 started on so loving a quest, the old survivors' joy in 
 meeting each other being shared to the full by their 
 guests. Thoughtful provision had been made for the 
 comforts and needs of all, even to the presence of a 
 skilled physician. With right of way, a clear track and 
 fast train, distance was covered quickly, and greetings 
 were hardly over and all comfortably settled for the 
 trip when we found ourselves on the Maryland making 
 the circuit of New York by water, a new experience 
 to most and enjoyed by all. 
 
 The penal and charitable institutions on the East 
 River islands, the great bridges, the tall tower of the 
 Singer Building with its forty-one stories, the Statue 
 of Liberty, the old Castle Garden, where Jenny Lind 
 sang so sweetly years ago, the great ocean liners at 
 their piers, the ferry-boats crossing and re-crossing like 
 shuttles, all held our close attention, while the stiff 
 salt breeze from the bay made snug shelters in demand. 
 
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At Jersey City a dining-car was attached to the 
 train, supper served, and by good New England early 
 bedtime nearly all sought sleep, to awake in the morn- 
 ing vmder Southern skies at Danville, Va., where the 
 early risers stocked up with local j)apers and picture 
 postals until the dealer was in the same fix as the 
 country store proprietor who complained that he "couldn't 
 keep nothin'." 
 
 That long day on the train which followed was 
 full of interest, both outside and in. The unfamiliar 
 landscape, the cotton fields and cotton mills, the ever- 
 present negro and mule, the houses with their outside 
 chimneys and no cellars, the autumnal tints of the gum- 
 trees in the swamps, the lazy circling buzzards and 
 razor-backed hogs, and above all the people, both white 
 and black, presented a constantly changing scene of great 
 interest. 
 
 But the chief interest was inside the train in the 
 ranks of the prison survivors. The meeting of old 
 comrades, the recital of former experiences and the 
 discussion of mooted points, brought to light many things 
 that made the occasion one of surpassing interest. 
 Recognitions came gradually and after some manoeu- 
 vering. No soldier would admit for a minute that he 
 didn't know every other one at sight, but all were care- 
 ful not to commit themselves. Said one to another, 
 after looking him over furtivelj^ "Didn't we go hunt- 
 ing together once"?" With equal caution, the other 
 replied, "Guess we did." "Was it at Antietam Iron 
 Works?" said the first, with an increase of interest. 
 "That's where it was," said number two, his face 
 brightening. "Did we knock over the squirrels with 
 
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Enfield rifles and navy beans'?" said the first, whose 
 hand was now stretching out. "You just bet we did," 
 came the ready reply. " Then your name is Francis, 
 Buraiun W. Francis," and in an instant they had set- 
 tled down in the same seat, in as full recognition and 
 complete sympathy as if they had seen each other every 
 day for the last forty years. To another, one said, 
 "If your whiskers were as black as your eyes, I'd say 
 that you were Sergeant Tom Crossley," and right then 
 and there close associations of former years were re- 
 newed never again to be severed. And so it went, 
 all through the train. 
 
 The good feeling and true companionship that pre- 
 vailed were very noticeable, as well as the disposition 
 to forget the painful side of prison experience. The 
 old boys were glad to be alive, thankful for the part 
 they were to take on the morrow, and appreciative of 
 the generous provision made for them by their state, 
 which was so fittingly represented in the person of 
 Comptroller Bradstreet, himself a veteran of the 2d 
 Conn. H. A. Nightfall found us nearing the Georgia 
 line, tired, sleepy, but haj^py, and none knew when the 
 train was sidetracked at Andersonville some time in 
 the night. 
 
 The song of the mocking-birds greeted the early 
 risers the next morning, Wednesday, October 23, and 
 many of the prison survivors were up and out to get 
 their first look at Andersonville in forty-three years. 
 "Same old place," said one. Well, yes, it surely has 
 changed but little,— the same old country store, a half 
 dozen or so of the same old houses, which never saw a 
 paint brush, the little frame church, the red soil and 
 
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dirt roads, all about the same as when they saw it 
 last. Surrounded on either side by stirring and prosper- 
 ous towns like Fort Valley, Oglethorpe and Americus, 
 Andersonville seems to be lastingly blighted and imable 
 to rise above the history associated with its name. 
 
 Leaving it behind, breakfast over, let us follow the 
 old survivors over the stockade grounds, eager to once 
 more stand on the very spot so associated with painful 
 but precious memories to them. Conveyances of all 
 sorts were on hand, their drivers out to make all there 
 was in it, but while some rode many walked, especially 
 the ex-prisoners, who wanted to go in "just as they 
 did before," on foot. 
 
 How it did all come back to us! There was where 
 the 16th Connecticut men slept the night before they 
 entered the prison, near the depot. Here is the old 
 dirt road with its forks to the south and north gates 
 of the stockade just where the brook crosses. On the 
 left, going over, are the remains of the earthworks bat- 
 tery whose gims were trained on the great south gate 
 of the prison. There is the covered way, by which 
 troops were to be moved unseen to head off possible out- 
 breaks from within, or to defend against attacks from 
 without. But what is this? There is a difference, after 
 all, thank God! No "stars and bars" wave from that 
 tall flag-staff on the north hillside of the old stockade, 
 but "Old Glory" swings out clear and fine in the bright 
 morning simlight. How good it looks, right there! 
 Take a good look at it, and then we'll go on. How the 
 boys scatter, a group here and a group there, all eager 
 to see points of special interest! 
 
 The first point of interest with most was "Provi- 
 
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deuce Spring," still flowing in all its God-given purity 
 and sweetness, and to this place all returned again and 
 again. The words of Lincoln, "With malice toward 
 none, with charity for all," engraved on the marble tab- 
 let through which its waters flow, fitly express the spirit 
 of the place. Close by it is the old stockade line, the 
 correctness of its location post being proven by one of 
 the old stumps which one of our party uncovered by 
 digging a few inches under the surface, but none of 
 which now remains standing. Inside that som.e twenty 
 feet are the posts Avhich mark the old "dead line," to 
 trespass on which brought an instant shot from the 
 ready sentry. Over there on the south hillside was the 
 great gate through which our l)oys entered the prison, 
 and its main street, on which the ration wagons came 
 in and tb.e dead were carried out, and here on this 
 street, about the center of tlie south hillside, the six 
 "raiders" were himg in full view of thousands. Not 
 far from that, up in the southwest corner near where 
 Major Bogle and his negro soldiers were kept, stood 
 the "Masons' tent," where the brethren of the ancient 
 craft held together in a spirit of helpfulness not limited 
 to the needs of their own number. Outside the stock- 
 ade line, off to the southwest a short distance, the re- 
 mains of the fortification still stand where the Florida 
 Battery trained its shotted guns on the crowded prison, 
 with its empty magazine still plainly to be seen. 
 
 Near by stood Captain Wirz's headqiiarters, and 
 nearer the stockade was the "dead house," where a 
 sentinel was posted to guard against premature resur- 
 rection after one prisoner had escaped by sim.ulating 
 death. Over there across the brook was the cook 
 
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house and tlie guards' camp, whose filth defiled the 
 waters of the brook flowing through the prison, on which 
 thousands depended for the water used in drinking and 
 cooking. Though known to all our old survivors, no 
 designation of the prison hospital site could be found 
 after the most careful search, this being the only point 
 of general interest unmarked by a suitable inscription. 
 In the lapse of years the swamp has disappeared, 
 the old morass having been filled by soil washed from 
 the hillsides, and covered by trees and a rank growth of 
 vines and shrubs. Trees forty feet high and a foot or 
 more in diameter now stand where the prisoners once 
 dug for pitch-pine roots in the crawling mire of the 
 old swamp. The Andersonville brook now runs clear on 
 a sandy bottom and somewhat wider than of old, now 
 that the swamp no longer absorbs it. Except at the old 
 foot path between the south and north hillsides where 
 it is bridged, it is now difficult of approach because of 
 the rank midergrowth of vines and blackberry bushes, 
 but some of the 16th Connecticut men hired negro laborers 
 and had the ground cleared where so many of them were 
 located while in prison. Just to the right of this spot 
 a few paces is where the men of the 43d Detachment, 
 3d Ninety, composed of Connecticut men, unanimously 
 voted against the proposition to send commissioners 
 through the lines to urge upon the Union authorities a 
 general exchange of prisoners, under the conviction that 
 such action would embarrass their government at a criti- 
 cal hour in the progress of the war, — a spot that should 
 be suitably designated. Attempts at cultivation on the 
 sovith hillside have been made from time to time in past 
 years, as the old furrows show, but the groimd is now 
 
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overgrown with brambles and cactus. An old uegro 
 who had worked on the ground showed quite a collec- 
 tion of small relics gathered by him, buttons, haversack 
 hooks, etc., the only visible belongings of the thousands 
 who had once trampled its crowded area. 
 
 The north hillside of the stockade groimds as a 
 whole has changed much less than the south owing to 
 its tenacious red clay subsoil, but that portion which 
 was included in the original stockade before its enlarge- 
 ment looks least familiar when revisited. The growth 
 of trees has obstructed the main street leading in from 
 the north gate, that "Midway" of the old prison, where 
 the chuck-a-luck players thronged, where fake reports of 
 exchange were given out, and where "sour beer" ped- 
 dlers and "soup-bone" dealers cried their wares. Fac- 
 ing north the scene changes and improves. There is a 
 group of fine state monmnents, the flag-staff and colors, 
 the superintendent's house and the rose garden in its 
 front. What a happy thought that garden was! The 
 roses are the gift of ex-prisoners, or of the friends of 
 those who died in the prison. ]\Iany bear inscriptions 
 on the supporting trellis giving the names of those whom 
 they commemorate and representing all parts of our 
 country. 
 
 Scattered about this north hillside are the wells dug 
 by the prisoners, with halves of canteens, old spoons, 
 etc., some for water, but mostly for the purposes of es- 
 cape, as is clearly shown by the location of many of them 
 near the dead line. Most of these wells are in an ex- 
 cellent state of i:)reservation, and they were examined by 
 all the members of our party with deep and curious in- 
 terest. One of the deepest still sliows the toe marks for 
 
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descent on its sides, with the opening of the tunnel 
 for escape in clear view, some eight or ten feet down. 
 Stones thrown into these wells show some of them to be 
 still forty or more feet in depth. ■ 
 
 Beyond cotton fields and pine woods, nearly half a 
 mile from the stockade, the National Cemetery is located. 
 It comes upon one as a surprise, hidden away in this 
 secluded place, but no one can step within its substantial 
 enclosure without an immediate sense of its permanence, 
 the protection and oversight of National authority, and 
 its singular beauty and fitness for its intended use. 
 There is an imaccountable charm of restfulness and peace 
 within its borders which was felt by all. One of the ex- 
 prisoners expressed a wish for burial there when it 
 should come his time to go, though he had previously felt 
 that the remains of those who died there should be 
 removed to the North. 
 
 Here in the afternoon of Wednesday, October 23, the 
 dedication exercises were held. They were simple, sincere 
 and in hannony with the spirit of the place. It was a 
 striking scene as the shadows lengthened and the sun 
 was low in the west. The fine bronze figure of the 
 Connecticut Soldier-Boy standing revealed in all its 
 dignity and beauty, the gray-haired speakers, the circle 
 of old survivors, the companionship of loved guests 
 and the presence of southern people, all made a picture 
 none will forget. The words spoken were free from 
 rancor, reverent, loving and hopeful, giving pain to 
 none. As our train was about to leave Andersonville 
 on its retiirn, an old Confederate soldier who had 
 served four years in the Southern army said to one of 
 our number, "I listened to what you all said in the 
 
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cemetery yesterday. You told the truth and spoke from 
 your hearts, and that was right, but you did not say one 
 word that hurt us." 
 
 A "Camp Fire" in the evening at the superin- 
 tendent's house on the prison stockade ground was 
 largely attended and proved an occasion of much in- 
 terest. The night was warm, with the light of a full 
 moon, reminding us of many such in the old prison 
 days when our thoughts turned so irresistibly home- 
 ward. A double quartette of yoimg colored people 
 from Spellman University, at Amerieus, Ga. in charge 
 of one of their professors gave us some good singing 
 and recitations, but the most enjoyable feature of the 
 evening was the singing of old war songs by the prison 
 survivors, led by Comrade George Robbins. "Tramp, 
 tramp, tramp, the boys are marching," sung by the Ander- 
 sonville survivors on the old prison grounds, was certainly 
 the genuine thing. But the occasion would not have 
 been com^Dlete without Comrade Norman L. Hope's sing- 
 ing of that old 16th Regiment favorite, "The Louisiana 
 Lowlands," all joining in the chorus. Some of the kids 
 seemed quite surprised that the old boys had so much 
 music in them. 
 
 Thursday, the 24th of October, was devoted to 
 revisiting the stockade and cemetery, the search for 
 individual graves, and the collection of relies and sou- 
 venirs. An extra car would have been needed for these 
 had we remained another day. Pieces of the old 
 stockade, canes, cotton in the boll, pomegranates, plmnes 
 of long-leafed pine and stalks of sugar cane, filled all 
 spare space, while Comrade Francis, known to all the 
 party as "the apple man" from his generous contribu- 
 
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tion of fine Cheshire pippins, brought back his barrel 
 filled with Andersonville sweet potatoes. 
 
 A^Tiile the members of our party were so engaged 
 during the forenoon, the railroad men ran the " Ander- 
 sonville Special" down to Americus, nine miles below, 
 where it was freshly stocked with ice, water, gas and 
 dining-car supplies for the homeward trip, returning 
 in season to serve the noon meal, after which the 
 warning whistle woke the echoes, bringing in any who 
 were still on the prison grounds, and shortly after two 
 o'clock we were all on board again headed for home. 
 
 Once well settled, with a thousand miles of travel 
 ahead and plenty of time for observation and thought, 
 it was pleasant to recall the things that had given us 
 such pleasure and satisfaction. The four days of close 
 association, with a common controlling interest, had 
 made our party like one great family, where all had 
 been greatly drawn together and brought into better 
 knowledge of each other. 
 
 Very interesting personal histories have some of the 
 ex-prisoners. One of the youngest and liveliest of the 
 party was James Haggerty of the 18th Conn., he of 
 the pompadour and hearty laugh, whose banjo and 
 songs gave pleasure to so many on the train. Yet he 
 is the man who was brought out of the prison hospital 
 at the Charleston race-course by the Confederates, sick 
 with yellow fever, and turned off for nine days in a 
 lonesome place to shift for himself with little or no 
 attention, but yet pulled through in good shape, to 
 attend the monument dedication forty-three years later. 
 
 There is Sergeant Samuel J. Griswold of the 16th 
 Conn. Vols., so greatly beloved by all who knew him. 
 
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He is the man who did so much to rouse others from 
 fatal apathy in the prison at Andersonville, saving many 
 lives in that way. As he was suffering greatly with 
 asthma, his friends in Guilford tried to dissviade him from 
 attempting the trip to Andersonville, telling him, "Why, 
 Sam, you'll die on the train"; to which he calmly re- 
 plied, "Well, I don't know of a better crowd to die 
 with, and I'm going to go," and go he did in spite of 
 his serious handicap. 
 
 That large, brown-haired, broad-shouldered man is 
 Al)el D. Brown of the 21st Conn., whom the Confed- 
 erates hung up by the thumbs at Florence, S. C, for 
 attempting to escape from the stockade. The last time 
 the writer had seen him he was swinging clear from 
 the ground from the projecting roof timbers of the 
 guard house at that place. 
 
 And there is George Q. Whitney, one of the monu- 
 ment commission, an expert machinist, who when urged 
 by the Confederates to patch up some of their broken- 
 down locomotives for high j^ay in gold coin and extra 
 rations, replied that he could make every part of a loco- 
 motive from the wheels to the whistle, but as for doing it 
 for them, he added, "I'll see you in hell first, and then I 
 won 't, ' ' and remained in the stockade to starve with the rest. 
 
 That quiet man who is so enjoying the trip is James 
 Young, who came from Montreal to join the party. He 
 was one of twelve young Canadians who were so opposed 
 to slavery and so in sympathy with the Union cause 
 that they came over the line and enlisted in the 6th 
 Conn. Vols., serving with honor to the end of the war. 
 
 Discussion of the trial of the "raiders" in Ander- 
 sonville revealed the fact that one of the jury who tried 
 
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them was a member of our party, in the person of 
 Q.-M. Sergeant Thomas E. Hurlburt, Co. B, 1st Conn. 
 Cav., of Seymour, Conn. Like most of that jury, Mr. 
 Hurlburt had been in the prison but a short time when 
 called to serve upon it. This was in order to secure 
 as far as possible unprejudiced jurors and give the 
 "raiders" a fair trial. Another member of that jury, 
 Eev. Thomas J. Sheppard of Granville, Ohio, is still 
 living and active in his work. Mr. Sheppard was Or- 
 derly Sergeant, Co. E, 97th O. V. I., and will be remem- 
 bered as the leader of many religious meetings in the 
 prison. In Ohio he is widely known as the " Ander- 
 son ville Chaplain. ' ' 
 
 One of the things the ex-j)risoners of the 16th Conn. 
 Vols, are thankfid for is that in those dark days in the 
 old stockade none of their dead lacked reverent burial. 
 Before carrying the bodies of their comrades up to the 
 gate, a passage of Scripture Avas read and a brief 
 prayer offered. William H. Jackson, Co. B, now of 
 Franklin, Mass., rendered this service with many of 
 our dead, and had with him on the train the Bible he 
 used in Andersonville. 
 
 Among those of our party long in confinement was 
 Albert A. Walker, Commissary Sergeant, 16th Conn. 
 Vols., of Norwich, Conn., who was in Andersonville a 
 year, being one of those who were finally taken to 
 Florida by the Confederates at the close of the war, in 
 April, 1865, and turned loose near the Union lines to 
 shift for themselves. He bears his years well and it is 
 a pleasure to know that he can take life more easily. 
 
 While our train is speeding homeward, let us turn 
 our thought once more to the National Cemetery before 
 
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leaving it too far behind. What an interesting and 
 helpful thing was the flagging of the graves of Con- 
 necticut men! This was done by Captain Bryant, the 
 superintendent, before the arrival of our party, and 
 was of great assistance in locating the graves of mem- 
 bers of Connecticut regiments. As interments were 
 made in nimierical order, the graves of our Connecticut 
 boys are scattered all through the long rows of the large 
 enclosure, but the flag at each headstone showed at a 
 glance where they were, and helped greatly in their 
 individual identification. Over 14,000 flags are kept at 
 the cemetery for the observance of Memorial Day when 
 each grave is flagged, and when the old Union soldiers 
 from Fitzgerald, Georgia, send over a large delegation 
 for the projDer observance of the day and place. Fitz- 
 gerald is a thriving town, settled by Grand Army men 
 from the Northwest who have made a success of fruit 
 culture. They maintain a strong post of the G. A. R., 
 and the register in the superintendent's house on the 
 stockade groimds shows that they and their families are 
 frequent visitors. 
 
 It is pleasant to know that our Connecticut boys 
 are so remem])ered, and that when Memorial Day again 
 occurs their monument will be found in place with those 
 from sister states. Old soldiers are keen critics in 
 their way and not at all chary in giving expression 
 to dissatisfaction with things that do not please them; 
 but there was not one in our party who was not pleased 
 with the Connecticut Soldier-Boy of Andersonville. The 
 presence of Mr. Pratt, the sculptor, was knoTvai liut to 
 few at first. He was sitting on a bench facing the monu- 
 ment after the bronze figure had been set in place on its 
 
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pedestal, when one of tlie old soldiers sitting by him, re- 
 marked to a comrade, "I don't know the man who 
 made that monument, but he is an artist, anyway," and 
 in these simi^le words he expressed the feeling of all. 
 There are larger and costlier monuments in the National 
 Cemetery at Andersonville, but none which so fully tell 
 the whole story. The vmveiling of the bronze figure by 
 Miss Dorothy Cheney, assisted by Miss Clara Denison and 
 Miss Ruth Cheney, soldiers' daughters, was a part of the 
 dedication exercises which gave great pleasure to the ex- 
 prisoners. 
 
 The presence of Chaplain Twichell added greatly to 
 the pleasure of all our party and his address touched 
 all hearts. To his old college mates he is still "Joe," 
 and to his parishioners " Mr.," but to the old soldiers 
 he is and always will be "Chaplain Twichell," and his 
 words came to them as from a comrade, fitly expressing 
 their thoughts and wishes and rightly interpreting the 
 meaning and spirit of the occasion. His presence was 
 a benediction. 
 
 Much regret was expressed for the unavoidable 
 absence of Hon. Theron Upson of the Monument Com- 
 mission. He had been present a year before when the 
 site for the monimaent was selected, but was prevented 
 by illness from attending the dedication exercises. En- 
 listing as a private in the 1st Light Battery, Conn. 
 Vols., in October, 1861, Mr. Upson served with it through 
 the war, returning as First Lieutenant, and being mus- 
 tered out June 11, 1865 after nearly four years of hard 
 and honorable service. 
 
 Regret was also expressed by more than one for the 
 absence of Dorence Atwater, through whose foresight 
 
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and courage a duplicate of the prison death-roll was 
 preserved, making it jtossible to identify so large a 
 proportion of the whole number, the National Cemetery 
 at Andersonville being exceptional in this respect. The 
 service he thus rendered, at great risk to himself, was 
 of incalculable value and deserving of the highest praise. 
 
 Before we leave the train, let us give a thought to 
 the railroad men who made the run of the "Anderson- 
 ville Special" such a great success. Representatives of 
 both the Pennsylvania and Southern roads accompanied 
 the party the entire distance, performing their respon- 
 sible duties so promptly, so thoroughly, but so unob- 
 trusively, that all went well from first to last, giving a 
 fine illustration of the perfection of modern methods 
 in railroading. The prisoners went to Andersonville 
 years ago in box freight cars, wdth from forty to sixty 
 in a car exclusive of the guards. The change to Pull- 
 mans was much appreciated. The dining-car sei*vice, 
 also, was excellent, and rendered under miusual difficul- 
 ties. Every one seemed to wish to do all they could for 
 the old soldiers and their friends. 
 
 But these things do not happen. Somebody does a 
 whole lot of care fid planning months before. The 
 Monument Commission was fortunate in its secretary, 
 Mr. Fred W. Wakefield of Meriden, Conn., who spared 
 neither time nor effort to see that all went well, and 
 there was a general feeling that much of the success 
 of the imdertaking was due to his efficient and faithful 
 services. But to George Q. Whitney of Hartford, a 
 member of the Commission, more than to anyone else, 
 we are under obligations for inaugurating and carry- 
 ing out the idea of a memorial to Connecticut men who 
 
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were prisoners of war in southern military prisons, 
 1861-1865, and for obtaining appropriations for that 
 purpose from two sessions of the Legislature. He 
 worked in the most untiring and devoted way from be- 
 ginning to end toward the object he had in view. The 
 preliminary work accomplished, he thought of and 
 planned for every detail for the comfort and enjoyment 
 of the whole party. We certainly owe the deepest 
 gratitude to him, without whom none of this undertak- 
 ing would have been carried through. 
 
 The special train reached New Haven Saturday 
 morning, October 26, with all on board safe and well, 
 and with a profound conviction that they had had the 
 time of their lives. How pleasant it is to look back 
 upon, and how fvill of real satisfaction! 
 
 The old survivors feel luider great obligation to the 
 president and members of the Monument Commission 
 for their happy and fortunate selection of a monument 
 so fitting and expressive in design, their choice of a 
 site so beautiful and secure, the thoughtful provision 
 for their safety and comfort on the journey to Ander- 
 sonville, and the character and success of the dedication 
 exercises. Again and again expression was made by 
 the old veterans of their grateful appreciation of the 
 generous action of the Legislature of Connecticut in 
 providing this fine memorial at Anderson ville, and in 
 making it possible for so many to attend its dedication. 
 Their only regret is that the remoteness of the location 
 makes it improbable that many Connecticut people will 
 ever see the fine moniunent their State has erected, or 
 stand by the graves of those who died there. 
 
 Egbert H. Kellogg 
 Sergeant-Major 16th Conn. Vols. 
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NOTES BY A GUEST. 
 
 THE Legislature of the State of Connecticut, in Janu- 
 ary, 1905, passed a resolution maldng an appropria- 
 tion of $6,000 for a memorial to Connecticut soldiers 
 imprisoned in Andersonville, Georgia, during the Civil 
 War. They also appointed a commission, to be com- 
 posed of Frank W. Cheney, George Q. Whitney, George 
 E. Denison, Norman L. Hope, and Theron Upson, to 
 whom they intrusted the duties of selecting a design, 
 choosing a location, and expending for the purposes of 
 the memorial the simi appropriated. Again, in Janu- 
 ary, 1907, the Legislature then sitting appropriated for 
 the expenses of the completion and dedication of the 
 monument already chosen, and for the transportation 
 of ex-prisoners of war who were members of Connecti- 
 cut regiments to and from the dedication, the sirm of 
 $7,500, the appropriation given into the care of the 
 same commission. 
 
 Thus generously provided for, the conmiission re- 
 quested their secretary, Mr. Frederick W. Wakefield, 
 to give out invitations to all living members of Con- 
 necticut regiments who were in Andersonville prison 
 during the Civil War, numbering now about 200 men. 
 The invitations were given out in June, so that there 
 might be abundant opportimity for decision and answer. 
 General appreciation of the opportunity was shown and 
 
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niauy acceptances were received. The commission wished 
 to provide for all handsomely and comfortably, and to 
 this end had not only a good sleeping berth for every 
 man, but a dining-car and Pullman parlor-car on the 
 train. To help cover these extra expenses one car was 
 filled with invited guests, who were glad to pay tlieir 
 own expenses that they might enjoy the privilege of 
 going to Andersonville with a party so interesting and 
 remarkable. The whole party consisted of 83 veterans 
 and 20 other persons, 103 in all, including a physician 
 and two railroad representatives. 
 
 We assembled in New Haven at noon on October 
 21, 1907, and foimd our train waiting for us and all 
 arranged in an orderly manner for the journey to 
 Andersonville. The day was fine and many wives and 
 daughters came to see the old soldiers off, bouquets in 
 their hands and eager sympathy in their faces. One 
 man was so afraid that he shoidd somehow miss it all 
 that he came to New Haven the night before. There 
 were meetings of comrades who had not met for forty 
 years, and recognitions made at first with hesitation 
 which led soon to re-established friendships. Even the 
 invited guests, remembering the great past in which 
 these men had part, were moved not only by sympathy 
 in their former sufferings but to a glad participation 
 in their triumphant comradeship. They recognized in 
 a small measure their great sacrifice, not only of life 
 in death but of life in life, — a sacrifice of hopes and 
 opportunities which all men hold dear, a sacrifice of 
 health and strength and higher education and business 
 career. How much this meant to many, few of this 
 
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time can guess, and contact with this body of ex-pris- 
 oners was a great revelation of it. It had not been 
 forgotten when they enlisted. Many of them saw what 
 was before them, and that they must look forward not 
 only to crippled limbs but to a crippled life. For their 
 dear country they were willing to make such sacrifices 
 and to lay down not only life itself but, if they lived, 
 a great deal that makes life worth living. Such a senti- 
 ment acted on in early life lives in the character later, 
 a silent incentive to unselfish living, a tendency at the 
 very root of manhood. So it was that, little by little, 
 the members of the party drew nearer to each other, 
 and entered on the delightful phase of intimacy which 
 is based on a conunon interest. When we reached An- 
 dersonville the men were once more comrades and ready 
 for the long-dormant memories which awakened at the 
 sight of the once too familiar places. Familiar, too, 
 were still some of the old faces, known once in time of 
 adversity and now welcomed in joy and prosperity. 
 
 Soon after starting we passed Noroton, and though 
 we could not stop we enjoyed the salute of the veterans 
 who were drawn up in orderly line, with the color-bearer 
 still bearing the flag as in the old days. We felt hon- 
 ored and touched by the remembrance. 
 
 The scenery of the journey through North Carolina 
 and Georgia is that of the reconstructed South. Great 
 brick cotton mills line the railroad and at every town 
 you see long rows of little houses. When the people 
 are at work in the mills the towns seem deserted. In 
 the autumn certainly the fields are lonely, and only the 
 still ungathered third picking of cotton told the story 
 of the product for the manufacture of which these mills 
 
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are built. The cotton bushes are larger and the white 
 bolls of cotton fuller as you go further south, and we 
 all gathered specimens of the curious flowers in their 
 long-fingered calixes, ranging in color from yellow to 
 deep crimson according to the period of bloom. 
 
 Andersonville is a small town on the Central Georgia 
 Railroad. Inquired of as to its population a white 
 resident said that "he reckoned there were about 75 
 people there, barrin' niggers." The station, where our 
 train spent two days, and where we continued to go for 
 our meals and sleep, is presided over by a nice yoimg 
 woman, who sends your telegrams and gives flowers and 
 favors as she has opportunity. It stands on a bank of 
 yellow earth, and its steps are often filled by a crowd 
 of passengers. Black women and boys were selling per- 
 simmons and pomegranates and sugar cane. Across the 
 road is the village store, its narrow piazzas always 
 swarming with people of both races, and occasionally 
 dinners of southern delicacies are spread on planks sup- 
 ported by soap-boxes and enjoyed in open-air freedom. 
 Down in the hollow is a barn-like cotton mill to which 
 the cotton is brought for the cotton-gin from neighboring 
 farms. One queer conveyance was dra^vn by a bullock 
 with a single rope rein. 
 
 A sandy road crosses a shallow stream and brings 
 you soon to the "prison-pen," a piece of land of about 
 20 acres, which lies on two hillsides sloping toward each 
 other with the stream running in the hollow between. 
 In 1864 this land was without tree or shrub to soften 
 the force of the summer sun. If there was grass there 
 originally on part of it, it was soon trodden into the 
 yellow earth by the trampling of 30,000 men. Wirz 
 
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and his Coufederate force had their fort with its earth- 
 worlcs eonimauding the stockade from the south, and 
 they had also redoubts at the opposite or north angles of 
 the stockade looking lioth ways, but with their batteries 
 trained outward to meet possible attack from that quar- 
 ter. This piece of land came lately into the possession 
 of the Women's Relief Corps of the Grand Army, and 
 they have built a good house there, and marked with a 
 little granite building in the hollow the "Providence 
 Spring," where in time of direst need from want of 
 water a bountiful pure spring burst forth during an 
 August thmider-storm, and has rim without ceasing ever 
 since. Be your faith what it may, you cannot visit this 
 spot without a sense of miraculous heavenly bounty. If 
 the spring meant hope and salvation to the sick or 
 dying prisoner, its clear, cool waters mean not less now 
 to the visitor who goes there with understanding of 
 imprisonment and its suffering in his heart. It seems 
 like the direct gift of God, and so thoiight those who 
 had prayed for it. The whole ground is marked by 
 signs which show the localities where certain events 
 took place. The wells dug by prisoners, ostensibly for 
 water, but from which in many cases tunnels were made 
 for escape, are now surroimded by young trees, and in 
 early summer abloom with hone^^'suckle. Tall trees have 
 gro^vn up on the hill-tops, and the stream is overgrown 
 by brush and bush. The double line of the stockade is 
 marked by posts. On one side of the uphill road a 
 grove of pecan trees is growing. Umbrella-shaped china 
 trees lend their solid shade to the house, a large United 
 States flag floats over it, a pretty rose garden is in front, 
 and many veterans have found rest and shelter in its 
 
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shady verandah. On this ground Ohio, Massachusetts, 
 Rhode Island, Michigan and Wisconsin have placed 
 their monmnents, and there it was at first assumed that 
 Connecticut would place hers. The tall obelisk of Ohio 
 is a shining mark to all the country, and no one can 
 look at it without being glad that it is there. 
 
 But beyond this piece of ground, which was the 
 scene of so much suffering in 1864, there is a walled 
 cemetery in the care of the United States Government, 
 and there in long rows of graves, marked by marble 
 headstones, with name, regiment and location number 
 of each man legibly inscribed, lie the Union soldiers 
 who died at Andersonville. Time and care have made 
 a spot of sheltered beauty about these once neglected 
 graves. Oaks and magnolias, neat roads and soft turf, 
 the song of birds and the watchful presence of our 
 government in the person of its appointed superin- 
 tendent, all make you feel that this is a place, sacred 
 it is true to the saddest memories, but with a feeling 
 of peace about it which softens the bitterness of the 
 past. There, on slightly rising ground, with three fine 
 oaks in a semicircle for background, the Connecticut 
 mommient is placed. The commission who visited 
 Andersonville a year and a half earlier chose this spot 
 unanimously, and obtained a willing promise of it from 
 the U. S. War Department in Washington on their 
 return. 
 
 The commission chose as sculptor Mr. Bela Lyon 
 Pratt of Boston, who had made for St. Paul's School of 
 Concord, N. H., a fine and appropriate statue in memory 
 of the gallant young soldiers from that school who had 
 fallen in the Spanish War of 1898. The choice of a sub- 
 
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jeet for the Andersonville monument was one on which 
 commission and artist held many conferences. It came 
 out in the course of experiments that the demand was for 
 a figure which sliould represent a very young man, in 
 Civil War uniform to the smallest details, and whose ex- 
 pression should be that of the courage and heroism that 
 are developed in suffering, — strong, modest, hopeful. He 
 should be the typical soldier-boy of the northern people, 
 and his bearing that of one who has learned poise by 
 endurance. This was the ideal of the sculptor himself 
 evidently, and he worked continuously and successfully 
 towards it until all felt that his object was achieved. 
 
 Wednesday, the 23d of October, was a clear day 
 and hot for the season of the year. The bronze figure 
 had come safely and in season, but owing to some mis- 
 take in transportation the stone pedestal had taken 
 journeys to Canada and Tennessee and other improbable 
 places, arriving at Andersonville only the Friday before 
 the Wednesday fixed for our day of dedication. Conse- 
 quently the work of placing the stone and of raising 
 the statue into position upon its pedestal was not com- 
 pleted before the exercises. Had it been known that 
 the next day would be fine and that the work would be 
 finished the exercises might have been deferred until 
 Thursday. On that day the work was nearly done and 
 the verdict was that it was "perfect." As it was, the 
 dedication took place as announced at 3 o'clock on 
 Wednesday afternoon. Assembly bugle call was sounded 
 by an old bugler of the 16th regiment, Comrade Greene, 
 who stood there with tears streaming down his face 
 while he sunmioned his old comrades from among the 
 graves of those who were gone. Besides the veterans 
 
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and their guests there were assembled before the monu- 
 ment a picturesque group of blacks and a few white 
 Southern people. 
 
 Mary Bushnell Cheney. 
 
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DEDICATION EXERCISES. 
 
 T 
 
 HE services began with a prayer by Rev. Joseph 
 H. Twichell. 
 
 Col. Cheney, the chairman of the Andersonville 
 Moniunent Commission, spoke as follows: 
 
 Comrades: 
 
 It is a great grief to us that our moniunent is not 
 completed and the statue upon the pedestal. But we 
 think we had better make sure of this beautiful day for 
 the dedication rather than take the risk of putting it off 
 till tomorrow. 
 
 The Andersonville Monument Commission was ap- 
 pointed by the Legislature of the State of Connecticut, to 
 erect a memorial to the men of Connecticut who suffered in 
 southern military prisons during the Civil War, 1861-65. 
 The members of the Commission and a few friends 
 visited this spot a year ago last spring, arriving here on 
 the 3d of May, 1906, forty-two years from the day the men 
 of the Sixteenth Connecticut regiment entered the prison 
 stockade. Four of our party had belonged to the Six- 
 teenth Regiment and were with us on that day. You 
 can yourselves realize with what memories and emotions 
 they returned to the well-remembered places, where the 
 trials of long months were endured. 
 
 We visited the spot in order to choose a fitting site for 
 our memorial. We had assumed that the place where our 
 
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comi'ades had suffered would be the place for it, and this 
 thought was uppermost in our minds until we came to the 
 National Cemetery, where the flag of the United States 
 protects the repose of those who gave their lives for it. 
 More than three hundred men of Connecticut lie in these 
 silent graves. Here are only peace and quietness. 
 
 So it was that after careful inspection of the ground 
 of the old prison pen and the National Cemetery for the 
 greater part of two days, we selected this spot as the one 
 we preferred for our memorial. The site was decided on 
 and given us without hesitation by the War Department 
 at Washington. 
 
 Standing here on this chosen place, we feel the pres- 
 ence of our comrades with us today, and we know that they 
 feel ours and will understand and appreciate in its true 
 spirit what we try to express, whether our words are well 
 chosen or not. 
 
 We are on sacred ground, and we still further conse- 
 crate it by placing here our memorial to our dead comrades, 
 as well as to those who suffered with them and are yet alive. 
 These too, have a right to share in our family graveyard, 
 our God's acre, where our loved and honored ones are 
 buried, and will wait for us when we too pass over and have 
 a reunion on the shores of a new life. This will soon come 
 about, for we are all old men, many of us already past our 
 allotted time of three-score years and ten. 
 
 It is a great privilege to be here, and to share the beau- 
 tiful quiet of this cemetery, which is so reverently cared for 
 by the government of the United States. The most fitting 
 way in which we could dedicate our monument would be on 
 our knees in silent prayer. May the peace of the Lord which 
 passeth understanding rest and abide here forever. 
 
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The work of our commission is ended. We wish to ex- 
 press our gratitvide to the State of Connecticut for having 
 so generously provided the ways and means for carrying out 
 our sacred duty, and our sense of obligation and apprecia- 
 tion of the luitiring interest and work of those who have 
 helped us without regard to cost of time and trouble. 
 
 We especially wish to honor the young sculptor, Bela 
 Lyon Pratt, for the noble work of art he has produced, 
 our Soldier Boy of Andersonville, the ideal yoimg soldier, 
 as he stood for all that is noble and loyal and enduring when 
 he offered himself and his life, if need be, for our loved 
 eormtry. We leave him here, feeling that he is a son or 
 brother, loved and lost in the service of his country, and that 
 he is now with our comrades at rest. 
 
 We now turn over our memorial to the representative 
 of the State of Connecticut, Comptroller Bradstreet, an old 
 soldier and comrade, who will speak for our State in the 
 absence of the governor, who is unable to be present. 
 
 At this point the monimient was imveiled by Miss 
 Dorothy Cheney, assisted by Miss Clara Denison and 
 Miss Ruth Cheney. 
 
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CoiMPTROLLER Bradsteeet, in accepting the monument 
 for the State, and in then delivering it into the care 
 of the government of the United States, spoke as 
 follows : 
 
 Colonel Cheney and memters of the Andersonville Monu- 
 ment Commission: 
 
 You have performed the trust which the State of 
 Connecticut reposed in you in a manner highly satisfactory 
 to our State. Your work has been done well. The design 
 of this monument reflects much credit on your judgment 
 and good taste, and today your duties as commissioners close 
 under southern skies and on sacred ground, groimd made 
 sacred by the heroic trial and sufferings of comrades, suffer- 
 ings so acute that the shadows of night were more welcome 
 than the light of day, sufferings which language fails to 
 describe and which no artist, however he may be inspired, 
 can paint ; ground made sacred as the final resting place of 
 300 or more men of our Connecticut regiments who died 
 in the belief that a kind nation and a kind state would 
 not allow the dear ones at home to suffer from want. 
 
 As representing the State of Connecticut, I now in 
 the name of the Commonwealth accept this monvunent 
 from your hands, and in the name also of the comrades 
 who died here and of their widows and children, as 
 well as in the name of those still living who suffered 
 on this field, I thank you for your good work. It is 
 
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•iUOMAS D. HKAIlSIKEET 
 
by such deeds that knowledge of the works, sentiments 
 and love of the passing generation is handed down to 
 the generations yet to come. 
 
 Captain Bryant: This monument is erected by the 
 State of Connecticut " In Memory of the Men of Connecti- 
 cut Who Suffered in Southern IMilitary Prisons." It is 
 placed on national ground, and to you, representing the 
 United States government, I, representing the State of 
 Connecticut, now present this monimient, knowing that it 
 will be kept sacred, and trusting it will not only be rever- 
 enced by those that wore the blue, but honored by those 
 who wore the gray. 
 
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Captain J. M. Bryant, Superintendent of the Na- 
 tional Cemetery, responded as follows: 
 
 Mr. Chairman, Memhers of the Andersonville Monument 
 Commission of Connecticut, and Felloiv Comrades: 
 
 IT affords me great pleasure, for and in behalf of the 
 War Department of our government, to accept the 
 monument erected in this National Cemetery by the 
 State of Connecticut in memory of her valiant sons who 
 suffered in Southern military prisons during the war 
 between the States, which you are assembled here today to 
 dedicate. Let me assure you that the honor is no less 
 appreciated because conferred upon me by our govern- 
 ment, than because of the opportunity which it affords me 
 to meet with you on this occasion. 
 
 The State of Connecticut has reason to be proud of her 
 military history, not only in the war between the states, 
 but also in previous and later wars ; for it was by Connecti- 
 cut men, so a private history informs us, that the first 
 flags were captured from the British during the War of 
 1812, and more recently in the war with Spain she fur- 
 nished a very large quota of both men and money to defend 
 the cause which our government espoused. 
 
 Nor is it to be said with discredit to the old Nutmeg 
 State that there were men from within her borders who 
 fought in the Confederate ranks, for they were follow- 
 ing the dictates of conscience. There were others within 
 her borders who sought by peaceful means to stay the 
 
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awful strife, Bien who, while declaring that the flag 
 must uot be dishonored, and deprecating the spirit of war 
 which was rampant on all sides, yet were ready to join the 
 multitude who offered their lives in response to the first 
 call for troops issued by our martjrred Lincoln. 
 
 Testimony to the patriotism and bravery of her men is 
 to be found in every history of the Civil War. According 
 to one well-known work, she sent to the war upwards of 
 50,000 soldiers in her o^m regiments, and many more who 
 fought in the regiments of other states. Over 5,000 officers 
 and enlisted men who served in her own regiments gave up 
 their lives on the field of battle or died of woimds or disease 
 incurred in line of duty. Some of the most famous generals 
 of the Civil War sprang from that state, and her brave 
 sons and grandsons fell upon every great battle-field. 
 
 Of the men who suffered and died in southern military 
 prisons, whose memory this mommient is designed to per- 
 petuate, approximately 304 died in the Andersonville 
 Prison and were Iniried iu this National Cemetery. If it 
 be given to the dead to know anything of this earth it is 
 certain that the spirits of these departed comrades are with 
 us today, or that " they bend over the golden walls of the 
 Celestial City " listening to the welcome words that assure 
 them they are not forgotten and rejoicing with us in a re- 
 united country and an undivided loyalty to the grand old 
 flag. 
 
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Col. Cheney said: 
 
 The Commission has selected Comrade Robert H. 
 Kellogg to speak for the ex-prisoners of Andersonville. 
 He is one of them and knows whereof he speaks. 
 
 Mr. Kellogg 's address was as follows: 
 
 ON the third day of May, 1864, in the early morning 
 of a clear bright day, a large detachment of Union 
 soldiers imder heavy guard were marched from 
 near the railroad station at Andersonville, Ga., where they 
 had spent the previous night, to a spot near the south 
 entrance gate of an enclosure surroimded by a high stock- 
 ade of heavy timbers, overlooked at short distances by 
 armed and watchful sentries. 
 
 These men had formed the garrison of a small forti- 
 fied outpost at Plymouth, N. C, where they had made a 
 brave, determined, but ineffectual defense, yielding only 
 after repeated demands for their surrender to a Confederate 
 force greatly outnumbering them in men and artillery, re- 
 inforced by the ironclad Albemarle operating on the 
 Roanoke River in their rear. 
 
 The State of Connecticut was represented in this de- 
 tachment of prisoners of war by about 300 enlisted men of 
 its 16th Regiment of infantry volunteers, their officers being 
 then separately held in confinement at Macon, Ga. They 
 foimd in the prison a few other Connecticut men, some of 
 whom had been long in confinement. In the long months of 
 that battle-sununer of 1864 many more were added to their 
 
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KOHKRT H. KKIJ.0(;R 
 
number, coming from hard-fought fields and representing 
 many different regiments. 
 
 They were nearly all young men, mostly unmarried 
 and some of them but little more than boys. They had come 
 from the farm and the mill, the store and the shop, from 
 school and college, and were good representatives of the 
 citizenship of their native state. They had voluntarily 
 entered the military service in the field and were in prime 
 physical condition. The common schools of New England 
 had given them a good education, and when the prison com- 
 mander, Captain Wirz, reined up his horse in front of the 
 line and called out, ' Is there any sergeant who can read 
 and write ? ' he was greeted with hoots of derision. It was 
 such men as these, strong, brave, bright boys of Connecti- 
 cut, who, when the great gate of the stockade swung open, 
 marched into what they soon knew and what we now know 
 as Andersonville Prison, a name to which sad memories 
 always attach. 
 
 As they filed in, a strange and terrible sight met their 
 astonished gaze. In silent ranks on either hand, pressing 
 closely upon them as they marched in, stood a multitude of 
 hiunan beings, but of what sort did not at first appear, 
 gaunt, ragged, barefooted, with skin blackened by pitch- 
 pine smoke, and clothing vermin-covered. These himian 
 wrecks were Union soldiers who had endured the horrors of 
 Belle Isle and Danville, and had been turned in here to die. 
 With its 12,000 prisoners, the enclosure seemed densely 
 crowded to those who now entered, though many of them 
 lived to see nearly three times that munber occupy the same 
 space. 
 
 The shock of this entrance was terrifying and dis- 
 heartening, testing the courage of the bravest, but with the 
 
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dawu of another day hope revived, resolution strengthened, 
 and these Connecticut boys faced the situation with deter- 
 mination. Maintaining their company and regimental 
 organization as closely as possible, they took counsel with 
 one another, and with grim determination made ready for an 
 unequal combat. It was to be a daily struggle with false 
 and discouraging reports of exchange and with heart-break- 
 ing yearnings for home ; a prolonged contest with exposure, 
 himger, sickness and death, amid surroundings repulsive 
 beyond description. But they set themselves to meet it. 
 Securing such locations as were available, they began at 
 once to try to make the best of it and ordered their lives 
 accordingly. 
 
 And here all previous training and native ingenuity 
 came in play. The value of good discipline, the oft-repeated 
 lessons of drill and inspection through which the care of 
 person and quarters had become second nature, were here 
 apparent and tested in constant use. Our Connecticut men 
 made the most of what little they had, displaying intelli- 
 gence and good sense in its use. None knew better than 
 they how to make the best of their scanty and poorly-cooked 
 rations. With limited means they constructed such par- 
 tial shelter as was possible, looked carefully after their 
 water supply and did all they coidd to keep themselves and 
 their quarters clean. Thrown among unrestrained and dis- 
 orderly men, our boys stood for order and restraint. In 
 surroundings which brought out all that was selfish in 
 human nature their spirit was unselfish and helpful. They 
 not only stood by one another loyally, but extended the 
 helping hand to those about them. Many a prisoner belong- 
 ing to regiments from other states knew what it was to 
 share the food, shelter and friendly care of our Connecticut 
 
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boys. They faithfully nursed their sick aud reverently 
 cared for their dead. Solicitations to enter the military 
 service or civil emj)loynient of the Southern Confederacy 
 were turned aside with scorn Ijy them, though acceptance 
 meant instant release from the fate that now so clearly 
 stared them in the face. 
 
 But the daily arrival of new prisoners brought con- 
 stant information from the battle-fields, with a clearer un- 
 derstanding of the real nature of the mighty conflict that 
 was being waged and the importance of their passive part 
 in it. This was evidenced by the action of Connecticut men, 
 who, almost to a man, voted solidly against the proposal 
 (originating with the Confederate authorities) for sending 
 a commission through the lines to urge Union authorities 
 to bring about an exchange of prisoners. They knew that 
 at that time such an exchange practically meant a reinforce- 
 ment of 50,000 able-bodied men to fill the depleted ranks of 
 the Confederates. Numbers of our brave Connecticut boys, 
 too weak to stand, crawled to their place in line to cast their 
 votes against the proposition, well knowing that they would 
 probably die in prison if not soon released, as in fact most 
 of them did. 
 
 As the days of that fatefid summer slowly passed, it 
 was seen that our men were indeed fighting a losing battle. 
 The constant and long-continued exposure to rain and sun 
 and heat and cold, the poor and scanty rations, the disease- 
 breeding filth, the heart sickness of hope deferred, all 
 helped to break down resistance, and the death roll length- 
 ened every day. One by one our brave boys gave up the 
 fight and passed away, imtil more than 300 of them were 
 quietly sleeping in this place, so remote from their New 
 England home and all that they held dear. The inspired 
 
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writer has said that ' they that be slain with the sword are 
 better than they that be slain with hunger, for these pine 
 away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the 
 field.' It was not in the heat and excitement of the battle 
 that these men gave up life. No cheer of victory roused 
 them as their souls took flight, but in the loneliness of a mul- 
 titude, with a comrade only by their side, within an enemy 's 
 lines and under a hostile flag, these sons of our beloved 
 State passed to their great reward. Truly they were faith- 
 ful unto death ; faithful to their state whose citizens they 
 were; faithful to their coimtry whose flag they loved; 
 faithful to the best that was in themselves. God bless them ! 
 
 And now, in the strangely kind providence of God, 
 we are gathered here today to pay honor to the memory of 
 these men in behalf of the people of Connecticut. With 
 other representatives of their state, a little handful of 
 gray-haired survivors of this prison experience stand 
 among the graves of those whom they once knew so well 
 and whose privations they shared. It is a precious privilege 
 and one never to be forgotten. Forty-three eventful years 
 have passed, bringing great changes. Entering here long 
 ago as prisoners, the flag of the Confederacy waved over 
 us. Today, standing here as free men, the Stars and Stripes 
 of our reunited coimtry float above us in the October breeze. 
 No feeling of vindictiveness animates any breast and no 
 desire exists to revive the bitterness of the past. We stand 
 here as citizens of a great, powerful and prosperous coun- 
 try, the hope of the oppressed of all the world, thankful that 
 in its day of direful need there was found a great army of 
 those who willingly gave life itself in its defense. 
 
 Andersonville becomes an object lesson in patriotism. 
 To this retired and beautiful spot will thousands resort in 
 
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the long years to come, to learn again and again lessons of 
 heroic sacrifice made by those who so qnietly sleep in these 
 long rows of graves. Erecting this beautiful monument to 
 their memory, we mil leave them where they died, to sleep 
 in the shadow of these friendly oaks, with the song of the 
 wood-thrush and the mocking-bird for requiem. We who 
 still remain will again take up the active duties of life, glad 
 to be able to still lend a hand and striving to so acquit our- 
 selves as to be worthy of those whose lives we here com- 
 memorate. 
 
 y?) 
 
COL. Cheney introduced the last speaker as " Our 
 loyal and wami-liearted comrade, Joseph H. 
 Twichell, Chaplain of the 71st N. Y. Regt. " 
 
 Chaplain Twichell spoke as follows : 
 
 Of the more than two and a half millions who in the 
 struggle of the Civil War bore arms for the maintenance 
 of the Union, no less than four hundred thousand per- 
 ished, all yoimg men. 
 
 That was the costliest part of the price paid for the 
 saving of the nation's life. 
 
 Of the great army of those who thus for their country's 
 cause gave what Abraham Lincoln called " the last full 
 measure of devotion," none endured for it so much as they 
 on pilgrimage to whose graves we have come hither, — 
 they and the comrades who shared their fate. Going down 
 to the battle they were on service under the flag till the 
 fortune of w^ar brought them to this place of sorrow, and 
 here, though disarmed and parted from the flag, they, in 
 their own eyes, were on the same service still, were soldiers 
 of the Union still, and so continued to their last breath. 
 In that service, as by them here finished, the supreme test 
 of their courage, fortitude, fidelity, manhood, was met and 
 was sustained. 
 
 On no other field was the invincibleness of the spirit 
 of patriotism and loyalty in those days witnessed and 
 proved as on this field where we are assembled. It is, in 
 its associations, one of the darkest spots in the whole land ; 
 it is also one of the brightest; for it surely was the stage 
 
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KK\ .KisKl'H II TWIl MEI.L 
 
on which the most heroic scene of the drama of national 
 defence was enacted. For my part I look upon this 
 ground -with feelings of symi^athy and pity which I have 
 no words to express, with tears rising in my heart, yet 
 also with feelings equally inexpressible of gratitude and 
 reverence. Oh, my comrades, who in these parting hours 
 are communing with the recollections of the time when, with 
 those who lie here, you drank the cup of strange affliction, 
 I rejoice with you that you partake their honor. They — 
 you — in drinking that cup did a work, for the value of its 
 testimony and for its imperishable influence, for the 
 inspiration proceeding and forever to proceed from it, 
 surpassing the deed of valor. 
 
 It exceeds, I well know, the power of one who lias not 
 himself the memor}- of it, to conceive its bitterness. It was 
 a woe the imagination of which, though it can be at the 
 utmost but a faint picture of the reality, one shrinks from 
 dwelling on. What these martyrs suffered it is heart-sick- 
 ening, heart-rending to contemplate, and always must be. 
 
 To the appalling sum of it is to be added the sum, yes, 
 the greater siun, of what was suffered for them. 
 
 It was not on those who faced the chances and sup- 
 ported the hardships of the field, that, from first to last, 
 the burden of the war's distress pressed most heavily; but 
 on those they left behind in their homes, on their mothers, 
 wives, sisters, most of all. It was not the Connecticut boy 
 here undergoing the miseries of captivity that it moves the 
 heart with deepest pain to consider, but his dear mother up 
 in the old State, thinking, thinking, thinking of him day 
 and night, never, it is likely, hearing from him; knowing 
 that he was famishing and wasting away ; incessantly pray- 
 ing for him with strong cryings and tears, unable as the 
 
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weary days dragged by to do the least thing more for him. 
 Ah, there was by far the most pathetic, most tragic phase 
 and feature of the situation, in the long agony of that 
 maternal bosom. It killed some of those mothers. 
 
 And that sacred anguish, I repeat, comes into the reck- 
 oning of the sacrifice, costlier than that of blood, of which 
 we here today consecrate a memorial. No other incident 
 of the war touched a deeper chord of sympathy in the 
 general heart than that of the lot of captivity. The song 
 it inspired, 
 
 " In the prison cell I sit, thinking, mother dear, of you, 
 And our bright and happy home so far away," 
 
 was sung all over the land, and with quivering lips, as we 
 remember. 
 
 That chord vibrates still. That the sentiment to which 
 it gave voice is a living one after a generation has passed, 
 the award of this memorial by a body of our citizens to most 
 of whom the great war is known only as history, is evidence. 
 
 It is more than a memorial. It is express witness that 
 they who suffered, in that service of siaffering bore, as pa- 
 triots and as soldiers, a part that was their own, unex- 
 ampled, peculiar to them, in the rescue of our country 
 out of well-nigh desperate perils, and even perfected their 
 title to the gratitude expressed in the glowing words in 
 which Mr. Lincoln uttered his feeling of what was due to 
 those through whose toils and dangers the triumph of the 
 national arms was achieved, and his great soul's prophetic 
 vision of the outcome: " Thanks to all! for the great re- 
 public; for the principle it lives by and keeps alive; for 
 man's vast future, thanks to all! " 
 
 Yes, ye brave, true victor spirits above whose dust we 
 stand, we thank you; the ancient Commonwealth whose 
 
 (40) 
 
sons ye were, thanks you; the nation thanks you, and will 
 forever thank you, that for the cause ye deemed, and which 
 was, the cause of God and of humanity, ye were here faith- 
 ful imto death ! 
 
 My friends, it is impossible for us not to feel that in 
 this hallowed place and hour we are surrounded by imseen 
 presences ; not to feel that they who in days gone by shared 
 under the flag that floats yonder the same fortunes, bright 
 and dark ; some of whom remain to this present ; more of 
 whom,— among them those who rest beneath this sod,— 
 have passed on; are today met together again. 
 
 It is in this thought that in closing I repeat the tendei 
 lines of the soldier-poet, Private Miles O'Reilly, letting 
 them, in the embrace of their fond greeting, speak to and 
 
 for both the living and the dead : 
 
 Comrades, known in marches many, 
 Comrades, tried in dangers many. 
 Comrades, boimd by memories many, 
 
 Brothers ever let us be ! 
 Wounds and sickness may divide us 
 Marching orders may divide us 
 But whatever fate betide us 
 
 Brothers of the heart are we. 
 By communion of the banner, 
 Battle-scarred but victor banner, 
 By the baptism of tlie banner 
 
 Brothers of one church are we. 
 Creed nor faction can divide us, 
 Race nor nation can divide us, 
 But whatever fate betide us 
 
 Brothers of the Flag arc we. 
 Comrades, known by faith the clearest, 
 Tried when death was near and nearest, 
 Bound we are by ties the dearest. 
 
 Brothers ever more to be. 
 
 There is one more verse that is for us alone who are 
 still for a season, which cannot be long, in the march of time. 
 
 And if spared and growing older, 
 Shoulder still in line with shoulder, 
 And with hearts no throb the colder. 
 Brothers ever we will be. 
 
 (41) 
 
Col. Cheney in conclusion said: 
 Comrades : 
 
 We have now finished the dedication of our monu- 
 ment. I am sorry it is over, for the occasion is one of 
 intense interest to us all and we will carry the memory of 
 it the rest of our lives. 
 
 God bless you all! 
 
 Comrade Greene then sounded taps and the assem- 
 bly rose. Photographs were taken and graves were 
 visited. The sun set, but the cemetery was not deserted 
 until dark, the living walking among the dead. 
 
 The next morning was bright again and the com- 
 pany assembled about the statue. Toward noon the 
 stone-work was nearly done. We began to know and 
 love the Soldier-Boy, and a look of affectionate rever- 
 ence characterized those who gathered about him. We 
 did not feel that we were leaving him alone in a hostile 
 or indifferent country. He was in the midst of a great 
 sleeping army, to which he belonged and which would 
 soon awake. 
 
 (42) 
 
RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONNECTICUT LEGIS- 
 LATURE. 
 
 Making an Approprl\tion for a Memorial to the Con- 
 necticut Soldiers, Imprisoned in Southern Military 
 Prisons. 
 
 General Assembly, 
 
 January Session, A. D. 1905. 
 
 Resolved hy this Assemhly: 
 
 Section I. That the sum of six thousand dollars is 
 hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money in the 
 treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the erection of a 
 suitable monument or memorial in the National Cemetery 
 or former prison grounds of Andersonville in the State of 
 Georgia, to fittingly commemorate the patriotic devotion, 
 heroism, and self-sacrifice of the soldiers and sailors of Con- 
 necticut in the army and navy of the United States during 
 the late Civil War in the Andersonville military prison dur- 
 ing said war. 
 
 Sec. II. Said monument or memorial shall be erected 
 under the supervision and control, as to the location as afore- 
 said, design, inscriptions, and execution, of a commission to 
 be composed of Col. Frank W. Cheney, George Q. Whitney, 
 George E. Denison, Norman L. Hope, and Theron Upson, 
 which commission is hereby authorized and empowered to 
 proceed, by themselves and such assistants as they find it 
 necessary to employ, to locate the site, j^rocure plans, de- 
 
 (43) 
 
signs, and specifications for such monument or memorial, 
 and erect and complete such monument or memorial, and 
 to do all things necessary to carry into full effect the pur- 
 poses specified in this resolution. 
 
 Sec. III. The expenses incurred by such commission 
 for the design, location, and erection of said monument or 
 memorial, and the inscriptions thereon, and the expenses of 
 said commission, incident thereto, shall be paid out of the 
 moneys hereinbefore appropriated for that purpose, and 
 the comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to draw 
 his orders on the treasurer for the amount of said expenses, 
 not exceeding in the aggregate the amount herein appro- 
 priated, on the presentation of itemized vouchers, approved 
 by said commission. 
 
 Sec. IV. On the completion of said monument or 
 memorial, said commission shall make a report thereof to 
 the governor, setting forth the facts, in connection there- 
 with, and embodying therein a full and complete itemized 
 account of all expenditures and outlays incurred in the 
 execution of the work. 
 
 General Assembly, 
 January Session, A. D. 1907. 
 Resolved by this AsseniMy: 
 
 Section 1. That the sum of seven thousand five hun- 
 dred dollars is hereby appropriated to be paid out of any 
 money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
 expenses of the completion and dedication of the monu- 
 ment erected to the Connecticut soldiers imprisoned in 
 AndersonviUe Prison, including the transportation of ex- 
 prisoners of war, who were members of Connecticut regi- 
 ments and were imprisoned at said AndersonviUe prison, 
 to and from said dedication. 
 
 (44) 
 
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Sec. 2. The moneys hereinbefore appropriated, or 
 so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended 
 under the direction and at the discretion of the commission 
 raised and appointed by resolution approved July 6, 1905, 
 providing for the erection of said monmnent; and the 
 comptroller is lierel)y authorized and directed to draw 
 his orders on the treasurer for amounts not exceeding in 
 the aggregate the amoimt hereinbefore appropriated, on 
 presentation of itemized vouchers approved by said com- 
 mission. 
 
 Commission. 
 Lieut. Col. Frank W. Cheney, Chairman, South Man- 
 chester, Conn., 16th Conn. Vols. 
 *George Q. Wliitney, Hartford, Conn., 16th Conn. Vols. 
 *George E. Denison, Hartford, Comi., 16th " " 
 *Norman L. Hope, Hartford, Conn., 16tli " " 
 Theron Upson, Shelton, 1st Lieutenant, 1st Lt. Battery. 
 Frederick W, Wakefield, Secretary, Meriden, Conn. 
 
 * Survivors of Andersonville Prison. 
 
 (4.5) 
 
A meeting of the commission for organization was held 
 October 27, 1905, at which Col. Frank W. Cheney was elected 
 chairman, and Frederick W. Wakefield secretary. 
 
 The commission left for the visit to the Andersonville 
 Prison groiuids and cemetery for the purpose of selecting 
 the site, Tuesday, May 1, 1906, and arrived home Tuesday, 
 May 8th. 
 
 Various designs for the memorial were shown at meet- 
 ings, but at the meeting held July 11, 1906, the design of Mr. 
 Pratt was chosen, 
 
 April 4, 1907, the following inscription was chosen: 
 
 "In memory of the men of Connecticut who 
 suffered in Southern military prisons 1861 — 1865. " 
 
 (46 
 
CI 
 
 
 z 
 
 
 o 
 
LIST OF CONNECTICUT SOLDIERS BURIED IN THE ANDERSON- 
 
 VILLE, GEORGIA, NATIONAL CEMETERY, AS PER 
 
 BURIAL REGISTER ; WITH A PEW 
 
 NOTES AND CORRECTIONS. 
 
 
 1st Conn. 
 
 V^OLUNTEER CaVALRY. 
 
 9829 
 
 Allen, John C 
 
 0. H, 
 
 Died Sept. 
 
 27, 1864 
 
 5464 
 
 Bailey, Joseph A. ' 
 
 ' I, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 13, 1864 
 
 2818 
 
 Baldwin, Thomas M. 
 
 ' L, 
 
 - July 
 
 3, 1864 
 
 6083 
 
 Bishop, Benjamin W. 
 
 • I, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 18, 1864 
 
 4296 
 
 Blakleslee, Henry ' 
 
 ' L, 
 
 " July 
 
 30, 1864 
 
 12199 
 
 Bone, A. ' 
 
 ' E, 
 
 " Dec. 
 
 1, 1864 Not in Conn, ros- 
 ter. 
 
 5806 
 
 Brown, Charles ' 
 
 ' H, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 16, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Chas. H. 
 
 620 
 
 Christie, Alonzo M. ' 
 
 ' A, 
 
 " Apr. 
 
 18, 1864 
 
 7348 
 
 Clary, Patrick E. 
 
 ' B, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 30, 1864 
 
 6060 
 
 Cook, >Villiam H. ' 
 
 ' Ci, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 18, 1864 
 
 7325 
 
 Davis, William 
 
 ' L, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 30, 1864 
 
 4465 
 
 Fisher, Augustus ' 
 
 ' E, 
 
 " Aug, 
 
 11, 1864 
 
 5913 
 
 Frisbie, Levi 0. ' 
 
 ■ K, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 17, 1864 
 
 4974 
 
 Granmont, Joseph ' 
 
 ' K, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 7, 1864 
 
 4015 
 
 Gutterman, John 
 
 ' E, 
 
 " July 
 
 26, 1864 
 
 3443 
 
 Hall, William G. 
 
 • K, 
 
 " July 
 
 16, 1864 
 
 6695 
 
 Hodges, George 
 
 • H, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 24, 1864 
 
 5029 
 
 Hollister, Augustus B. 
 
 ■ L, 
 
 •• Aug. 
 
 8, 1864 
 
 49 
 
 Holt, Thomas J. 
 
 ' A, 
 
 •' Mar. 
 
 14, 1864 
 
 7365 
 
 Jameson, John S., Sergt. • 
 
 ' M, 
 
 •' Aug. 
 
 31, 1864 Body may have 
 been removed in 
 1865. 
 
 8502 
 
 Johnson, Plumb 
 
 ' D, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 11, 1864 
 
 7749 
 
 Kelty, James ' 
 
 ' L. 
 
 '■ Sept. 
 
 3, 1864 
 
 10228 
 
 Lee, Abner, (Farrier) 
 
 
 " Oct. 
 
 22, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Co. F, and died 
 Oct 2, 1864. 
 
 6570 
 
 McDavid, James S. 
 
 ' K, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 21, 1864 
 
 4079 
 
 Miller, Daniel 
 
 ' E, 
 
 " July 
 
 23, 1864 
 
 HT) 
 
7547 Moore, Alden T., Corp. Co. 
 
 7331 North, Samuel S. '' 
 
 7511 Olena, Rollan L. 
 
 5386 Peachey, James " 
 
 3803 Phelps, Samuel G. 
 
 10676 Pocahontas, Osceola " 
 
 10416 Reynolds, Charles 
 
 2804 Rutter, John 
 
 9648 See, Lewis 
 
 3558 Sherward, David •• 
 
 4212 Smith, Charles E., Corp. " 
 
 9304 Starkweather, Eugene W. " 
 
 10787 Stahfi, John 
 
 2474 Stevens, EH W. " 
 
 4 Stone, Henry T. 
 
 12005 Swift, Jonathan " 
 
 10035 Tisdale, Edward F. 
 
 2601 Warren, Edward T. J. " 
 
 9265 Wheeler, John " 
 
 2d Conn. Volunteer Heavy Artillery. 
 
 4830 Blackman, Albert Co C, Died Aug. 6,1864 
 
 12540 Bohin, Alex. " B, " Jan. 28, 1865 
 
 11361 Candee, David M. " " Oct. 23, 1864 
 
 12031 Rathbone, Benjamin H. '■ A, " Nov. 15, 1864 
 
 2871 Read, Herberk H. •• H, •• July 4, 1864 
 
 4555 Straum, James " D, " Aug. 2, 1864 
 
 6918 Wigglesworth, Moses L. " H, " Aug. 26, 1864 
 
 3d Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 
 3224 Burns, John Co. I, Died July 12, 1864 
 
 H, Died 
 
 [ Sept. 2, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 L, '■ 
 
 Aug. 30, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 E, " 
 
 Sept. 1, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 H, " 
 
 Aug. 10, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 A, " 
 
 July 22, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 L, " 
 
 Oct. 11, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 E, '• 
 
 Oct. 6, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster 
 Edward. 
 
 says 
 
 E, " 
 
 July 3, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 G, " 
 
 Sept. 24, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster 
 Co. L. 
 
 says 
 
 D, '■ 
 
 July 18, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 L, " 
 
 July 29, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 L, " 
 
 Sept. 30, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 L, " 
 
 Oct. 12, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster 
 Stauff. 
 
 says 
 
 L, " 
 
 June 25, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 E, " 
 
 Mar. 4, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 K, " 
 
 Nov. 14, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 L, " 
 
 Sept. 29, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 E, " 
 
 June 28, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 M, " 
 
 Sept. 19, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 Conn, roster says 
 
 Co. A. 
 Disinterred, Sept. 
 
 17, 1880. 
 Conn, roster says 
 
 Herbert. 
 Conn, roster says 
 
 Straun. 
 
 4th Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 
 9340 Irlay, H. Died Sept. 20, 1864 
 
 (48) 
 
 Not in Conn, ros- 
 ter. 3rd Reg't. 
 all mustered out 
 Aug. 7, 1861. 
 
 Not in Conn, ros- 
 ter. 
 
5th Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 
 13478 Austin, Richard Co. G Died Nov. 20, 186,5 
 
 12134 
 7975 
 
 5452 
 5596 
 6846 
 12442 
 4558 
 
 1277 
 
 10397 
 
 10033 
 
 7961 
 
 6705 
 
 74 
 
 4565 
 9707 
 
 6164 
 
 545 
 
 5274 
 
 5919 
 
 7395 
 
 3949 
 
 4367 
 
 25 
 
 9758 
 8028 
 
 Conn, roster says 
 detailed brigade 
 wagon train ; 
 died Nov. 20, 
 1865. 
 
 Mountjoy, Thomas 
 Smith, Henry 
 
 C, '• Nov. 23, 1864 
 n, ■' Sept. 6, 1804 
 
 6tu Conn. Volunteer iNF-iVNTKy. 
 Bantley, Francis Co. H, Died Aug. 24, 1864 
 
 Burns, Bernard " G, •' Aug. 14, 1864 
 
 Clark, William " A, ■' Aug. 25, 1864 
 
 Eaton, William " F, '■ Jan. 12,1865 
 
 Ernst, Jacob 
 
 Frenzel, Otto 
 Gladstone, William 
 Hine, James 
 Jones, John R. 
 KierchoS, Bernhardt 
 Miles, John A. 
 
 Orton, H. C. 
 
 Sanches, Martin 
 
 c, • 
 
 ■ Aug. 
 
 2, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 discharged Sept. 
 11, 1864. 
 
 c, 
 
 •• May 
 
 "1, 
 
 1864 
 
 K, 
 
 • Oct. 
 
 6, 
 
 1804 
 
 K, 
 
 ■• Sept. 
 
 24, 
 
 1804 
 
 G, 
 
 ^' Sept. 
 
 6, 
 
 1864 
 
 H, ' 
 
 ' Aug. 
 
 24, 
 
 1864 
 
 D, 
 
 •■ Mar. 
 
 30, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster^says 
 died March': 20, 
 1864. 
 
 I, 
 
 ■' Aug. 
 
 2 , 
 
 1864 Not in Conn, ros- 
 ter. 
 
 E, 
 
 Sept. 
 
 1864 
 
 7th Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 
 Berersford, Mathew Co. F, Died Aug. 19, 1864 
 Bigelow, William W. " B, " Apr. 14, 1864 
 Blanchard, Alfred •• A. '■ Aujr. 10, 1864 
 
 Boyle, William 
 
 Campbell, Robert 
 Cottrell, Burt 
 Cullen, Michael 
 Dowd, Phiuias 
 
 Ellis, Ebenezer 
 Feely, Malcolm F. 
 
 IT, 
 
 ■■ Aug. 
 
 4, 
 
 1861 Conn, roster says 
 Co. B, and died 
 Aug. 17, 1864. 
 
 F, 
 
 .4ug. 
 
 31, 
 
 1864 
 
 c, 
 
 ■• July 
 
 2-,, 
 
 1864 
 
 E, 
 
 ■ July 
 
 31, 
 
 1864 
 
 I. ' 
 
 ■ Oct. 
 
 1, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 dieil Richmond, 
 Va. 
 
 D, 
 
 •■ Sept. 
 
 6, 
 
 1864 
 
 I, 
 
 ■■ Sept. 
 
 
 1864 Conn, roster 'says 
 
 died Aug. 6, 
 1864. 
 
 (49) 
 
5567 Fogg, Charles, Sergt. 
 
 2612 Pry, Samuel 
 
 737 Jameson, Charles 
 
 10255 John, Frederick 
 
 8065 Kimball, Henry H, 
 
 8866 Kohlenberg, Christian 
 
 9219 Lewis, George H. 
 
 9542 McDonald, William 
 
 6426 Mercur, Michael 
 
 9713 Messenger, Horace H. 
 
 10895 Nichols, Michaels 
 
 6222 Northrop, John 
 
 11616 Perra, Antonio 
 
 7688 Potocki, Alexander 
 
 9533 Printer, Morris G. 
 
 Co K. Died Aug. 
 
 D, 
 A, 
 H, 
 D, 
 G, 
 
 June 
 
 Apr. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 13, 
 28, 
 26, 
 3, 
 7, 
 15, 
 18, 
 
 1864 
 1864 
 1864 
 1864 
 1864 
 1864 
 1864 
 
 Conn, roster has 
 no one by this 
 name in this 
 regiment or as 
 prisoner. 
 " D, " Sept. 22, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 
 mustered out 
 uly 20, 1865. 
 
 E, " Aug, 
 
 I, " Sept. 
 
 I, " Oct. 
 
 D, " Aug, 
 
 D, " Oct. 
 
 G, " Sept 
 
 22, 
 
 25, 
 14, 
 18, 
 28, 
 3, 
 
 1864 
 1864 
 1864 
 1864 
 1864 
 1864 
 
 C, 
 
 Conn, roster says 
 died July 6, 
 1864. (See grave 
 number.) 
 Sept. 22, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Horace G. 
 Painter. 
 
 8078 
 
 Reed, John 
 
 ft 
 
 B, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 7, 
 
 1864 
 
 7310 
 
 Reid, Robert K. 
 
 it 
 
 A, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 30, 
 
 1864 
 
 9987 
 
 Sliney, David 
 
 K 
 
 F, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 29, 
 
 1864 
 
 12288 
 
 Smith, John 
 
 (1 
 
 D, 
 
 " Dec. 
 
 13, 
 
 1864 
 
 234 
 
 Smith, Horace M. 
 
 U 
 
 D, 
 
 " Mar. 
 
 29, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Co. B, and died 
 at Richmond, 
 Va. 
 
 1864 
 
 5725 
 
 Smith, Thomas 
 
 11 
 
 B, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 15, 
 
 10247 
 
 Sparring, T. 
 
 (( 
 
 K, 
 
 " Oct. 
 
 3, 
 
 1864 Not in Conn, ros- 
 ter. 
 
 3041 
 
 Stewart, John 
 
 a 
 
 B, 
 
 " July 
 
 8, 
 
 1864 
 
 2158 
 
 Welden, Henry 
 
 (( 
 
 E, 
 
 " June 
 
 19, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 8th Conn 
 
 . Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 10414 
 
 Blumley, Edward 
 
 Co. 
 
 D, 
 
 Died Oct. 
 
 6, 
 
 1864 
 
 9984 
 
 Crossley, Benjamin 
 
 a 
 
 G, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 29, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Sept. 29, which 
 is also indicated 
 by grave num- 
 ber. 
 
 (50) 
 
7603 Edwards, Charles J. Co. G, Died Sept. 1,1864 
 
 9444 Godfrey, Sylvanus 
 
 9129 Hall, Benjamin 
 
 6374 Kempton, Benjamin A. 
 
 5499 Lewis, Joshua 
 
 4595 Marshall, Barlow 
 
 6240 Marshall, Leander 
 
 9248 Phillips, John J. 
 
 7956 Tinker, Neheniiah D. 
 
 H, ' 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 18, 1864 
 
 F, ' 
 
 ' Sept. 
 
 18, 1864 
 
 G, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 21, 1864 
 
 E, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 15, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Josiah. 
 
 H, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 2, 1864 
 
 H, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 25, 1864 
 
 R, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 19, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 John I. 
 
 tJ, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 24, 1864 
 
 336 Cain, John J. 
 4096 Gray, Patrick 
 
 9th Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 Co. H, Died Apr. 4, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 
 John I. 
 " H, " July 27, 1864 
 
 10th Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 5799 Champlain, Henry F. Co. F, Died Aug. 11, 1864 
 
 2813 Davis, William 
 
 7294 Johnson, William H. 
 
 8150 Moger, Aaron J. 
 
 4356 Parker, Sand ford D. 
 
 8170 Richardson, Charles S. 
 
 3674 Risley, Edward H., Corp. 
 
 2405 Seward, George H. 
 
 4649 Whaley, James A. 
 
 C, " July 
 
 3, 
 
 1864 
 
 I, " Aug. 
 
 30, 
 
 1864 
 
 , " Sept. 
 t, " July 
 
 8, 
 30, 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Sandford S. 
 Parker died 
 July 21, 1864. 
 
 •, " Sept. 
 !, " July 
 
 8, 
 20, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 
 16th Reg't. 
 1864 
 
 A, 
 
 June 25, 1864 
 Aug. 3, 1864 
 
 11th Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 5632 Balcom, Alonzo J. 
 12408 Bassett, Joseph R. 
 
 126 JO Beamis, Charles 
 
 11175 Callahan, Jerry 
 3941 Clarkson, William 
 8568 Donovan, Joseph 
 
 Co. B, Died Aug. 14, 1864 
 " B, " Jan. 6, 18G5 Conn, roster says 
 
 died Salisbury, 
 N. C. 
 
 Feb. 9, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 1865. See grave 
 number also. 
 
 Aug. 22, 1864 
 
 July 25, 1864 
 
 Sept. 12, 1864 Conu. roster says 
 deserted May 
 16. 1864. 
 
 K, 
 
 I, 
 H, 
 
 A, 
 
 (51) 
 
12188 
 
 Fagan, Philip D. 
 
 Co. 
 
 A, 
 
 Died Nov. 
 
 28, 
 
 1864 
 
 10300 
 
 Grady, Michael 
 
 it 
 
 B, 
 
 " Oct. 
 
 4, 
 
 1864 
 
 9369 
 
 Heart, William 
 
 ic 
 
 F, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 20, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster has 
 name Hart. 
 
 
 Holmes, Wm., Sergt. 
 
 il 
 
 B, 
 
 " Apr. 
 
 15, 
 
 1865 Conn, roster says 
 
 
 Not on Andersonville 
 
 
 
 
 
 supposed to be 
 
 
 roster. 
 
 
 
 
 
 last Conn, man 
 who died at An- 
 dersonville. 
 
 12163 
 
 Hudson, Charles 
 
 li 
 
 c, 
 
 " Nov. 
 
 26, 
 
 1864 
 
 7597 
 
 Husbenthal, H. 
 
 u 
 
 c, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 2, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster has 
 Hubenthal, 
 Henry. 
 
 5221 
 
 Johnson, Samuel 
 
 11 
 
 c, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 10, 
 
 1864 
 
 7083 
 
 Johnston, George W. 
 
 (1 
 
 6, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 28, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 died Aug. 8, 
 1864. 
 
 5186 
 
 Kleinlien, Lorenzo 
 
 li 
 
 C, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 0, 
 
 1864 
 
 6451 
 
 Maglue, Samuel 
 
 li 
 
 1, 
 
 " Oct. 
 
 18, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 died Aug. 22, 
 1864. (See 
 grave number.) 
 
 9170 
 
 Martz, Carl 
 
 il 
 
 c, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 18, 
 
 1864 
 
 6902 
 
 Massie, George 0. 
 
 it 
 
 B, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 26, 
 
 1864 
 
 11538 
 
 McDonald, John 
 
 11 
 
 D, 
 
 " Oct. 
 
 27, 
 
 1864 
 
 4492 
 
 McLean, M^illiam 
 
 (f 
 
 G, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 1, 
 
 1864 
 
 6800 
 
 Meal, John 
 
 (t 
 
 D, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 25, 
 
 1864 
 
 9423 
 
 Penn, H. N. 
 
 (1 
 
 G, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 21, 
 
 1864 Not in Conn, ros- 
 ter. 
 
 5002 
 
 Plumb, Joseph C. 
 
 a 
 
 G, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 8, 
 
 1864 
 
 7487 
 
 Post, Charles E. 
 
 il 
 
 K, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 1, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Corporal. 
 
 8345 
 
 Ray, Andrew 
 
 il 
 
 G, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 10, 
 
 1864 
 
 4636 
 
 Renz, Lewis 
 
 " 
 
 I, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 3, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Lewis Renez. 
 
 3196 
 
 Short, Patrick 
 
 11 
 
 B, 
 
 " July 
 
 11, 
 
 1864 
 
 4316 
 
 Stranbel, Lewis 
 
 u 
 
 c, 
 
 " July 
 
 30, 
 
 1864 
 
 11089 
 
 Turner, Harry 
 
 u 
 
 A, 
 
 " Oct. 
 
 18, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 failed to report. 
 No further rec- 
 ord. 
 
 9512 
 
 Ward, Gilbert 
 
 li 
 
 G, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 22, 
 
 1864 
 
 3410 
 
 Wood, Joseph 
 
 " 
 
 E, 
 
 " July 
 
 10, 
 
 1864 
 
 (52; 
 
1-1 TH Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 
 2380 Anderson, Andrew Co. K, died June 23, 1864 
 
 10682 
 
 Barnum, Philitus, Corp. ' 
 
 ' I, 
 
 " Oct. 
 
 11, 
 
 1864 
 
 1493 
 
 Bessanson, Pierre 
 
 ' B, 
 
 " May 
 
 14, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 died May 31. 
 1864. 
 
 6184 
 
 Boscher, William 
 
 " E, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 H', 
 
 18G4 Conn, roster says 
 Borchers. 
 
 2833 
 
 Brennon, Michael 
 
 " B, 
 
 " July 
 
 3, 
 
 IS 04 
 
 7306 
 
 Burncastle, Henry 
 
 • A 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 30, 
 
 1864 
 
 775 
 
 Crawford, James 
 
 " A, 
 
 " Apr. 
 
 28, 
 
 1864 
 
 9089 
 
 Filby, A. 
 
 " c. 
 
 '' Sept. 
 
 18, 
 
 1864 Not in Conn, ros- 
 ter. 
 
 186 
 
 Flint, Curtis W. 
 
 " G, 
 
 " Mch. 
 
 27, 
 
 1864 
 
 3028 
 
 Gordon, John 
 
 '• G, 
 
 " July 
 
 7, 
 
 1864 
 
 12117 
 
 Hancock, William J. 
 
 - G, 
 
 " Nov. 
 
 22 
 
 1864 
 
 3559 
 
 Holcomb, Ludwick 
 
 " D, 
 
 '■ July 
 
 is! 
 
 1864 
 
 2336 
 
 Hughes, Edward 
 
 " r>, 
 
 ■' June 
 
 22, 
 
 1864 
 
 3281 
 
 Jackson, T. 
 
 " B, 
 
 " July 
 
 13, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster has 
 Thomas Jack- 
 son, Co. D. 
 
 7780 
 
 Kain, Thomas 
 
 " G, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 4, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Kane. 
 
 10677 
 
 Kelley, Peter B, 
 
 '' c, 
 
 ■' Oct. 
 
 11, 
 
 1864 
 
 6748 
 
 Kelly, Thomas 
 
 " I, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 24, 
 
 1864 
 
 1590 
 
 Kingsburg, Chauncey 
 
 " K, 
 
 " June 
 
 3, 
 
 1864 
 
 6124 
 
 Leonard, William 
 
 " H, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 1", 
 
 1864 
 
 11870 
 
 Levanduskie, George 
 
 " G, 
 
 " Nov. 
 
 6, 
 
 1864 
 
 119 
 
 McCauley, James 
 
 ■' A, 
 
 " Mar. 
 
 23, 
 
 1864 
 
 10595 
 
 McCrith, Albert 
 
 " H, 
 
 " Oct. 
 
 10, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 McGrath. 
 
 525 
 
 McDougall, William C. 
 
 " K, 
 
 " Apr. 
 
 13, 
 
 18G4 Conn, roster says 
 deserted Oct. 14, 
 1863. 
 
 3644 
 
 Miller, Alfred 
 
 " I>, 
 
 - July 
 
 20, 
 
 1864 
 
 2295 
 
 Miller, Charles 
 
 " 1, 
 
 " June 
 
 31, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Charles MuUer 
 died June 21, 
 1864. 
 
 9321 
 
 Myers, Michael 
 
 " F, 
 
 " Sept, 
 
 20, 
 
 1864 
 
 8276 
 
 Orr, Alexander 
 
 " H, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 9, 
 
 , 1864 
 
 3868 
 
 Pample, Carl 
 
 " B, 
 
 " July 
 
 24, 
 
 1864 
 
 2960 
 
 Pendleton, William 
 
 " c, 
 
 " July 
 
 «, 
 
 1864 
 
 6796 
 
 Ringwood, Richard 
 
 " A, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 25, 
 
 1864 
 
 (53) 
 
9928 Risley, Charles W. 
 5385 Schutz, Charles 
 
 Co. D, 
 
 " I, 
 
 3010 Scott, William 
 3522 Smith, John 
 
 " I, 
 
 4892 
 
 Steele, Samuel 
 
 " C, 
 
 7071 
 
 Stephens, Bernard 
 
 " A, 
 
 10142 
 
 Taylor, James 
 
 " I, 
 
 5427 
 
 Thompson, Franklin 
 
 ■' A, 
 
 4443 Thompson, William 
 
 541 Tyler, Moses 
 
 3107 Walter, Henrick 
 
 5543 Weiget, Henry 
 
 Co. D, Died Sept. 28, 1864 
 
 Aug. 12, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 " Schultz." 
 
 July 7, 1864 
 
 July 18, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 John Smith, 2d, 
 died July 8, 
 1864. 
 
 Aug. 6, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Co. E. 
 
 Aug. 28, 1864 
 
 Oct. 1, 1864 
 
 Aug. 12, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 correct name 
 
 
 
 
 
 Franklin John- 
 
 
 
 
 
 son. 
 
 I, ' 
 
 ' Aug. 
 
 1, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 E, 
 
 " Apr. 
 
 14, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 A. ' 
 
 ' July 
 
 10, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 c, • 
 
 ■' Aug. 
 
 13, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 I 5th Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 5352 Hanson, Frederick A. Co. I, died Aug. 10,1864 
 
 4937 Harwood, George, Corp. " A, " Aug. 7,1864 
 
 5932 Maginnis, James " E, " Aug. 17, 1864 
 
 7723 Treadway, J'n H., Corp. " D, " Sept. 3,1864 
 
 16th Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 3461 Bachelder, Benj. F. 
 
 7763 Bailey, Frank 
 
 8018 Ballantine, Robert 
 
 7742 Banning, John F. 
 
 10690 Barlow, Leland 0. 
 
 3664 Beatty, John 
 
 5754 Beers, John O. 
 
 Co. C, died July 17, 1864 
 " E, 
 
 A, 
 E, 
 E, 
 
 E, 
 A, 
 
 1636 
 
 Birdsall, Daniel S. 
 
 " C, 
 
 2256 
 
 Bosworth, Alonzo N. 
 
 " D, ' 
 
 5308 
 
 Bower, John 
 
 " E, ' 
 (54) 
 
 Sept. 4, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Franklin. 
 
 Sept. 6, 1864 
 
 Sept. 3, 1864 
 
 Oct. 11, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Corporal. 
 
 July 20, 1864 
 
 Aug. 16, 1864 Conn, roster, says 
 correct name 
 James, verified by 
 many comrades. 
 
 Oct. 29, 1864 
 
 June 20, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Corporal. 
 
 Aug. 11, 1864 
 
5152 Brooks, William Corp. Co. F, died Aug. 9, 
 
 12152 
 
 Burke, Henry 
 
 4848 
 
 Carrier, David B. 
 
 7685 
 
 Carver, John G. 
 
 9698 
 
 Chadwick, Morris S, 
 
 3707 
 
 Chapin, Leander 
 
 7316 
 
 Chapman, Noah 
 
 6153 
 
 Clark, Hiram A. 
 
 10272 
 
 Cotter, William 
 
 7646 
 
 Craig, William 
 
 7418 
 
 Cullen, Michael 
 
 3615 
 
 Demery, John 
 
 11339 Dean, Robert 
 
 5446 Degnan, Charles 
 
 11991 Deming, Burrage G. 
 
 11431 Deming, David W. 
 
 1182 Duff, William 
 
 8749 Dutton, William H. 
 
 4437 Easterly, Thomas 
 
 11608 Emmett, William 
 
 3482 Emmons, Albert H. 
 
 7346 Ensworth, John W. 
 
 8368 Evans, Newton J. 
 
 5122 Flowers, Joseph J. Corp. 
 
 7057 Gallegher, Patrick 
 
 10051 Gibson, Daniel G. Sergt. 
 
 5173 Gilmore, John 
 
 7642 Halery, Michael 
 
 D, 
 D, 
 D, 
 
 I. 
 A, 
 E, 
 K, 
 B, 
 B, 
 
 K, 
 A, 
 
 F, 
 K, 
 G, 
 C, 
 B, 
 
 K, 
 G, 
 
 Died Nov. 
 " Aug. 
 " Sept. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 July 
 
 Aug. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 Aug. 
 Julv 
 
 24, 
 6, 
 
 3, 
 
 24, 
 21, 
 30, 
 19, 
 
 16. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Mav 
 
 Sept. 
 July 
 
 21, 
 
 12, 
 13, 
 
 24, 
 IS, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster and 
 comrades say 
 Wm. D. 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Co. B. 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 
 
 1 864 Conn, roster says 
 died Sept. 3, 
 1864. 
 
 1864 
 
 1.S64 Conn, roster says 
 Damery, and 
 died July 20th ; 
 verified by com- 
 rades. 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 killed at An- 
 tietam, Sept. 17, 
 1862. 
 
 1864 
 
 1864Correct name 
 Easterby. 
 
 K, " Sept. 27, 1864 
 K, " July 17, 1864 
 C, " Aug. 30, 1864 
 r, ■■ Sept. 9, 1864 
 C. " Aug. 7. 1864 Conn, roster says 
 correct name 
 Joseph Flower, 
 Jr. 
 Aug. 28. 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Gallagher. 
 30, 1864 
 9, 1864 
 
 3, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Haley. 
 
 D, 
 
 A, •■ Sept. 
 
 C, '■ Aug. 
 
 D, •• Sept. 
 
 (55) 
 
5162 
 9991 
 
 Haley, Thomas C. Co. 
 Hawley, Robert A. 
 
 F, Died Aug. 
 I, " Sept. 
 
 8, 
 
 25, 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 
 wounded Sept. 
 
 17, 1862, An- 
 
 3195 
 
 7380 
 3033 
 8148 
 
 Hitchcock, William A. 
 Holcomb, Asher A. " 
 Hoskins, Joseph " 
 Hubbard, Burton " 
 
 C, ' 
 E, ■ 
 D, 
 
 A, 
 
 ' July 
 •' Aug. 
 " July 
 - Sept. 
 
 10, 
 31, 
 
 18, 
 8, 
 
 tietam,Md. Died 
 Sept. 25, 1862. 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 
 
 7757 
 
 7012 
 
 11970 
 
 12340 
 
 Hubbard, Henry D. 
 Hull, Martin 
 
 Johnson, Christopher C. " 
 Johnson, William ■' 
 
 G, 
 
 E, 
 E, 
 
 E, 
 
 ■' Sept. 
 " Aug. 
 " Nov. 
 •• Dec. 
 
 2, 
 
 27, 
 
 12, 
 10, 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Corporal and 
 died Dec. 25, 
 1864. 
 
 7570 
 10233 
 
 Jones, Joseph J. " 
 Kearns, Thomas " 
 
 B, 
 
 A, 
 
 " Sept. 
 " Oct. 
 
 2, 
 
 2 
 
 1864 
 1864 
 
 8613 
 7912 
 3401 
 
 Keith, James M. Sergt. " 
 Levaughn,Wm. 0. Sergt. " 
 Lindon, Henry " 
 
 H, ' 
 C, ' 
 
 ' Sept. 
 ' Sept. 
 " July 
 
 13, 
 
 5, 
 
 16, 
 
 1864 
 1864 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Henry Lindow. 
 
 6342 
 
 Malone, John " 
 
 B, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 31, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 died Aug. 2 1 , 
 1864. 
 
 8446 
 3516 
 
 4417 
 
 Mathews, Silas J. " 
 McArdle, Patrick " 
 Messenger, Alden " 
 
 K, • 
 
 G, 
 
 G, 
 
 ' Sept. 
 ■■ July 
 " July 
 
 9, 
 16, 
 
 31, 
 
 1864 
 1864 
 1864 
 
 7852 
 
 Miller, Francis " 
 
 B, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 5, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 Francis D. Mil- 
 
 11487 
 
 Murphy, William " 
 
 F, ' 
 
 • Oct. 
 
 24, 
 
 ler, Corporal. 
 1864 
 
 5238 
 
 Nichols, Frederick " 
 
 F, ' 
 
 ' Aug. 
 
 10, 
 
 1864 Not in Conn, ros- 
 
 5044 
 
 Nichols, Emerson A. 
 
 G, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 8, 
 
 ter. 
 1864 
 
 4934 
 
 Pimble, Alfred P. 
 
 I, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 7, 
 
 1864 
 
 10195 
 
 Richardson, Danforth " 
 
 G, 
 
 " Oct. 
 
 9 
 
 -'J 
 
 1864 
 
 8170 
 
 Richardson, Chas. S. " 
 
 G, ' 
 
 ' Sept. 
 
 8, 
 
 1864 Credited 10th 
 Conn. 
 
 6400 
 
 8662 
 
 10138 
 
 8235 
 
 Robinson, Henry A. " 
 Roper, Hugh Co. 
 Schubert, Carl 
 Schmatz, Ludwig " 
 
 K, ' 
 G, • 
 
 K, ' 
 
 E, ' 
 
 ^' Aug. 
 ' Sept. 
 ■ Oct. 
 ' Sept. 
 
 21, 
 
 12, 
 
 1, 
 
 10, 
 
 1864 
 1864 
 1864 
 1864 Conn, roster says 
 
 Ludwig Schmalz. 
 
 (56) 
 
9435 
 
 Sliurtlifi, James 
 
 Co, C, 
 
 Died Sept. 
 
 6, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 0476 
 
 Steel, Horace B. 
 
 " F, 
 
 " Oct. 
 
 6, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 6734 
 
 Steele, James M. 
 
 '• F, 
 
 '• Aug. 
 
 25, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 5712 
 
 Steele, Samuel 
 
 " C. 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 15, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 5564 
 
 Stino, Philip 
 
 ^' K, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 13, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 4722 
 
 Sullivan, Matthew 
 
 '■ r), 
 
 '■ Aug. 
 
 4, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 4444 
 
 Tibbals, Henry 
 
 '• G, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 1, 
 
 18G4 Conn, roster 
 Corporal. 
 
 says 
 
 5479 
 
 Tibbals, William H. 
 
 " G, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 13, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 6138 
 
 Way, Henry C. 
 
 - K, 
 
 ■■ Aug. 
 
 19, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 9G81 
 
 Wells, James 
 
 " E, 
 
 '• Sept. 
 
 20, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 8024 
 
 West, Charles H. 
 
 '■ I, 
 
 ■' Sept. 
 
 5, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 9028 
 
 Williams, Hiram D. 
 
 •' F, 
 
 •• Sept. 
 
 17, 
 
 1S64 Conn, roster 
 Corporal. 
 
 says 
 
 5675 
 
 Winchell, John L. 
 
 - A, 
 
 '• Aug. 
 
 14, 
 
 1SG4 
 
 
 5222 
 
 Wright, Charles W. 
 
 " B, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 10, 
 
 1864 
 
 
 6394 
 
 Young, Nelson D. 
 
 " I, 
 
 " Aug. 
 
 21, 
 
 1864 Conn, roster 
 died July 
 1864. 
 
 says 
 21. 
 
 The Connecticut roster has the following list of men of 16th Conn, 
 as having died at Andersonville, who are probably in unknown graves : 
 
 Vols. 
 
 Young, Casper T., Corp. 
 Gosnell, Phillip H. . 
 Goodrich, Jeremy, Corp. 
 Hale, Essaria 
 Payne, Silas A. . 
 Allen, Franklin H. 
 Cresswell, John . 
 Goarley, Wm. 
 Snow, (.)rIaudo E. 
 Maine, Felix C. . 
 Michaelis, Frederick 
 Hayes, Franklin, Corp. 
 Hill, John, Corp. 
 Graham, George A. . 
 
 Campion, Edward F. Corp. (place not known), 
 Belden, Hiram, ...... 
 
 Co. 
 
 A, 
 
 died Aug. 
 
 20, 
 
 1864 
 
 B, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 2 
 
 1864 
 
 c, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 2, 
 
 1864 
 
 c, 
 
 '■ Aug. 
 
 16, 
 
 1864 
 
 c, 
 
 '■ Oct. 
 
 4, 
 
 1864 
 
 D, 
 
 *• Nov. 
 
 10, 
 
 1864 
 
 D, 
 
 ■' Nov. 
 
 20, 
 
 1864 
 
 D, 
 
 " No date. 
 
 
 D, 
 
 •' Nov. 
 
 17, 
 
 1864 
 
 E, 
 
 " Nov. 
 
 25, 
 
 1864 
 
 E, 
 
 ■■ Aug. 
 
 10, 
 
 1864 
 
 K, 
 
 •' Sept. 
 
 30, 
 
 1864 
 
 K, 
 
 '• Sept. 
 
 30, 
 
 1864 
 
 K, 
 
 " Sept. 
 
 30, 
 
 1864 
 
 G, 
 
 " Oct. 
 
 27, 
 
 1864 
 
 G, 
 
 " No date or 
 
 place 
 
 The Connecticut roster also says ; 
 
 Private Abraham Waters, Co. C, died May or June at Florence, which 
 must be an error, as Florence was not occupied until about the 1st of October. 
 
 (57) 
 
087G 
 
 Bennett, Nathaniel W. 
 
 " H, 
 
 3900 
 
 Bishop, Andrew 
 
 " A, 
 
 4449 
 
 Connor, D. 
 
 " D, 
 
 17 th Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 
 6964 Hoyt, Edward S. Co. B, died Aug. 27, 1864 
 
 18th Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 10373 Acksler, Adam Co. I, died Oct. 18, 1864 Not in Conn, ros- 
 
 ter. 
 Oct. 16, 1864 
 July 24, 1864 
 
 Aug. 1, 1864 Conn, roster has 
 no Connor in Co. 
 D, but has the 
 name Joel T. 
 Converse, who 
 died Aug. 30, 
 1864. 
 Nov. 7, 1864 
 Aug. 30, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 
 Co. C. 
 Sept. 11, 1864 
 Nov. 18, 1864 
 Sept. 29, 1864 
 Sept. 7, 1864 
 Feb. 6, 1865 
 
 Conn, roster says 
 Aug. 13, 1864 Chauncey J., 
 
 Co.E,died Aug. 
 18, 1864. 
 Apr. 5, 1864 
 
 11889 
 
 Downer, Sylvanus, Sergt. " 
 
 c, 
 
 7337 
 
 Gott, Gilbert H. " 
 
 G, 
 
 8403 
 
 Haywood, William G. 
 
 E, 
 
 12086 
 
 Hibbard, Albert 
 
 B, 
 
 10029 
 
 Robinson, Joseph W. " 
 
 D. 
 
 8088 
 
 Short, Linus E. " 
 
 K, 
 
 12600 
 
 Ward, George W. " 
 
 c. 
 
 5466 
 
 Williams, Chauncey W., 
 
 
 
 Corp. " 
 
 A, 
 
 401 Winship, Joseph H. 
 
 C, 
 
 2 1st Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 2054 
 
 Brewer, George E. Co. A, died June 16, 1864 
 
 4670 
 
 Dugan, Thomas " I, " Aug. 3, 1864 
 
 5382 
 
 Fuller, Henry L. " H, " Aug. 11, 1864 
 
 302G 
 
 Sutcliff, Robert " G, " July 7, 1864 
 
 
 30th Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 2720 
 
 Babcock, Mark D. " Co. A, died July 1, 1864 Conn, roster says 
 
 
 reported on 
 
 
 muster-out roll 
 
 
 as absent in 
 
 
 hospital. 
 
 
 Number of Regiment Not Given. 
 
 1964 Ball, H. A. 
 
 Co. B, died Nov. 11, 1864 Not in Conn, ros- 
 ter. 
 
 (58) 
 
LIST OF SURVIVORS OF ANDERSONVILLE PRISON, WHO 
 
 SERVED IN CONNECTICUT REGIMENTS, AND 
 
 EIGHTEEN MEMBERS OF REGLMENTS OF 
 
 OTHER STATES NOW LIVING 
 
 IN CONNECTICUT. 
 
 [ * Stars indicate those who attended the Dedication. ] 
 
 
 1st 
 
 Conn. Volunteer 
 
 Cav 
 
 •ALRY, 1.3. 
 
 
 * Bishop, Ebenezer 
 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Co. 
 
 A 
 
 Boston, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 *Burgess, Edward 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 L 
 
 Southington, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Cogan, Richard 
 
 
 
 u 
 
 A 
 
 New Haven, 
 
 li 
 
 Coleman, Thomas 
 
 
 
 11 
 
 B 
 
 New Haven, 
 
 n 
 
 Dayton, Charles R, 
 
 
 Corp. 
 
 n 
 
 B 
 
 Fair Haven, 
 
 11 
 
 ♦Ferris, Westou 
 
 
 Q. M. Sergt. 
 
 " 
 
 B 
 
 New Haven, 
 
 (1 
 
 •Hurlburt, Thomas 
 
 E. 
 
 Q. M. Sergt. 
 
 " 
 
 B 
 
 vSeymour, 
 
 u 
 
 McKenna, Francis 
 
 T. (not in Conn. Roster; 
 
 1 
 
 Noroton Heights, 
 
 li 
 
 ♦Munsill, Merritt F. 
 
 
 1st Squadron 
 
 u 
 
 B 
 
 Pair Haven, 
 
 li 
 
 *Perry, Hiram D. 
 
 
 
 (i 
 
 I 
 
 Danbury, 
 
 (t 
 
 •Thompson, Richard M. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 1( 
 
 A 
 
 Manchester, 
 
 il 
 
 Tomlinson, Perry 
 
 
 1st Sergt. 
 
 " 
 
 E 
 
 Portland, 
 
 Oregon 
 
 *Wilber, Warren 
 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 •• 
 
 B 
 
 Noroton Heights, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 *Lane, William F. 
 
 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery. 
 Co. H 
 
 ♦Briscoe, Eph. D. (not in 
 
 Roster ae ] 
 
 prisoner) 
 
 Co. 
 
 I 
 
 Newtown, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Snow, Chas. W. (not in 
 
 Roster a« 
 
 prisoner) 
 
 
 B 
 
 Petersham, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 6th 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Volunteer 
 
 Infantry, 10. 
 
 
 Ames, Richard L. 
 
 
 
 Co. 
 
 B 
 
 Had dam. 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Bouton, Seth S. 
 
 
 
 il 
 
 D 
 
 Santa Monica, 
 
 Cal. 
 
 Brown, Chas. H. 
 
 
 
 
 G 
 
 New Britain, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 *Hall, Henry E. 
 
 
 
 
 F 
 
 Mansfield, 
 
 (( 
 
 Howarth, Alfred 
 
 Corp. 
 
 
 
 F 
 
 North Haven, 
 
 " 
 
 McDonald, Robert 
 
 
 
 
 D 
 
 Watervliet, 
 
 Mich. 
 
 *Ruden, Frederick 
 
 Corp. 
 
 
 
 H 
 
 Allingtown, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Searles, Geo. E. 
 
 
 
 
 D 
 
 Stamford, 
 
 " 
 
 (59) 
 
*Young, James 
 Young, John A. 
 
 Co. 
 
 K 
 B 
 
 Montreal, 
 Eastford, 
 
 7th Conn. Volunteer Infantry, 16. 
 Ayres, Edw. (not In RoBteras prisoner) Sergt, Co. D Danbury, 
 
 Canada 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Conn. 
 
 B ram an, Henry T. 
 
 1st Sergt. 
 
 ii 
 
 H 
 
 New Haven, 
 
 it 
 
 *Holmes, Charles 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 C 
 
 Meriden, 
 
 u 
 
 *Leeds, John A. 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 
 u 
 
 C 
 
 Meriden, 
 
 a 
 
 Lewis, Charles B. 
 
 
 
 (( 
 
 I 
 
 Noroton Heights, 
 
 ii 
 
 Lynes, Samuel K. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 
 t( 
 
 D 
 
 
 Mo. 
 
 J 
 
 
 Paddock, Geo. B. 
 
 
 
 a 
 
 C 
 
 Jackson, 
 
 Minn. 
 
 Phelps, Edward D. 
 
 Corp, 
 
 
 (( 
 
 F 
 
 New Haven, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 *Pratt, Albert G. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 
 a 
 
 G 
 
 Noroton Heights, 
 
 (( 
 
 Reinders, Garrett 
 
 
 
 ti 
 
 E 
 
 Torrington, 
 
 II 
 
 Sims, Henry V. (not in 
 
 Roster as prisoner) 
 
 " 
 
 F 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 I 
 
 *Smith, Ira B. (promoted Captain), 
 
 '• 
 
 C 
 
 Bristol, 
 
 u 
 
 ♦Stewart, James E. 
 
 
 
 ii 
 
 A 
 
 Noroton Heights, 
 
 *' 
 
 Swayne, John 
 
 
 
 ti 
 
 P 
 
 Noroton Heights, 
 
 (1 
 
 Whittaker, Samuel H. 
 
 
 
 (1 
 
 G 
 
 Wallingford, 
 
 a 
 
 *Williams, Francis (see : 
 
 Frank also) 
 
 a 
 
 C 
 
 Bristol, 
 
 ti 
 
 8th 
 
 Conn. 
 
 V0LU> 
 
 JTEER 
 
 Infantry, 5. 
 
 
 Doran, John 
 
 Corp. 
 
 
 Co. 
 
 H 
 
 Noroton Heights, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Farley, Michael 
 
 
 
 (1 
 
 G 
 
 Westerly, 
 
 R. 1. 
 
 Handley, Michael 
 
 
 
 U 
 
 I 
 
 Noroton Heights, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Tillden, Charles F. 
 
 
 
 li 
 
 B 
 
 Suffield, 
 
 ({ 
 
 Williams, Hawley 
 
 
 
 li. 
 
 H 
 
 Westport, 
 
 i( 
 
 IOtb 
 
 [ Conn. 
 
 VOLDNTEEJ 
 
 i Infantry, 1. 
 
 
 HoUister, John 
 
 
 
 Co. 
 
 C 
 
 Windsor, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 llTH 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Volunteer 
 
 Infantry, 6. 
 
 
 Garthwait, Geo. W. 
 
 Sergt. Major 
 
 
 
 Waterbury, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 *Lord, Sylvester 0. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 
 Co. 
 
 D 
 
 Southington, 
 
 ii 
 
 Mautte, John 
 
 Corp. 
 
 
 11 
 
 C 
 
 New Haven, 
 
 tt 
 
 NefE, Hiram 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 
 li 
 
 D 
 
 Norwich, 
 
 a 
 
 Ostrander, John 
 
 
 
 ii 
 
 I 
 
 Salisbury, 
 
 it 
 
 *Quinn, Timothy 
 
 
 
 li 
 
 F 
 
 Willimantic, 
 
 n 
 
 13th 
 
 Conn, 
 
 Volunteer 
 
 In 
 
 fantry, 1 . 
 
 
 Lloyd, John J. 
 
 
 
 Co. 
 
 A 
 
 Forestville, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 14th 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Volunteer 
 
 Infantry, 4. 
 
 
 *Chatfield, John D. 
 
 
 
 Co. 
 
 C 
 
 Waterville, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 French, James W. 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 A 
 
 Tariha, 
 
 Venezuela 
 
 Lover, Geo. E. 
 
 
 
 (( 
 
 A 
 
 Fairfield, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 McMahon, Michael 
 
 
 
 ft 
 
 F 
 
 New Britain, 
 
 ii 
 
 (60) 
 
16th Conn. Volcntekr Infantry, 93. 
 Non Com. Staff, If.. 
 
 ♦Robert H. Kellogg, 
 
 Delaware 
 
 , Ohio, 
 
 Sergeant Major 
 
 John W. Loomis, 
 
 Hartford 
 
 , Conn., 
 
 Q. M. 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 Hiram Buckingliam, 
 
 Was 
 
 hing 
 
 ton, D. C, 
 
 Q. M. 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 ♦Albert A. Walker, 
 
 Norwich, 
 
 Conn., 
 
 Com. 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 
 Co. 
 
 A, : 
 
 16th C. v., 13. 
 
 
 
 •Clancy, James B. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 
 Noroton Heights, 
 
 Conn, 
 
 
 ♦Davis, Franklin B. 
 
 
 
 Winsted, 
 
 (( 
 
 
 Forbes, Ira E. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 (( 
 
 
 ♦Hope, Norman L. 
 
 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 i( 
 
 
 Hooker, Wm. G. 
 
 
 
 Meriden, 
 
 u 
 
 
 ♦Miller, Jeffrey D. 
 
 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 a 
 
 
 ♦Sternberg, Wm. F. 
 
 
 
 New Britain, 
 
 u 
 
 
 Taylor, Geo. 
 
 
 
 Tobias, 
 
 Nebraska. 
 
 
 Thompson, Collins V. 
 
 
 
 
 Ohio. 
 
 
 ) 
 
 
 Waterman, Frank W. 
 
 
 
 Rock ford. 
 
 Illinois. 
 
 
 ♦Whalen, James B. 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 
 ♦Whitney, Geo. Q. 
 
 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 it 
 
 
 Wingate, John D. 
 
 
 
 San Francisco, 
 
 Cal. 
 
 
 
 Co. 
 
 B, 1 
 
 16th C. v., 17. 
 
 
 
 Chapman, John 
 
 
 
 Somers, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 
 Clark, John 
 
 
 
 New Britain, 
 
 " 
 
 
 ♦Cuzner, John B. 
 
 
 
 Glastonbury, 
 
 ■' 
 
 
 Fowler, Wallace H. 
 
 
 
 East Haven, 
 
 u 
 
 
 Goodrich, Burritt 
 
 
 
 Thomaston, 
 
 (( 
 
 
 ♦Greene, Edmund B. 
 
 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 a 
 
 
 *Griswold, Samuel J. 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 
 Guilford, 
 
 >( 
 
 
 Hancock, Wm. El. 
 
 
 
 Windsor Locks, 
 
 u 
 
 
 *Holmes, Roliert J. 
 
 
 
 West Avon, 
 
 (( 
 
 
 ♦Jackson, Wm. H. 
 
 
 
 Franklin, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 
 ♦Johnson, Chas. L. 
 
 
 
 New York, 
 
 N. Y. 
 
 
 Johnson, Geo. R. 
 
 
 
 New Haven, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 
 Lamphere, Geo. N. 
 
 
 
 St. Paul, 
 
 Minn. 
 
 
 ♦Odie, James M. 
 
 
 
 Worcester, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 
 Palmer, Osbert H. 
 
 
 
 Windsor, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 
 ♦Root, Edmund A. 
 
 
 
 Nepaug, 
 
 u 
 
 
 Spencer, Geo. B. 
 
 
 
 East Windsor, 
 
 (( 
 
 
 
 Co. 
 
 c. 
 
 16tb C. v., 9. 
 
 
 
 ♦Prisbie, Geo. W. 
 
 
 
 Unionville, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 
 Hart, Frederick M. 
 
 
 
 Unionville, 
 
 {1 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 (Ol) 
 
 
 
Henry, Albert W. 
 
 
 Noroton Heights 
 
 , Conn. 
 
 *Peck, Frederick H. 
 
 
 Unionville, 
 
 i( 
 
 Parsons, Eugene W. 
 
 
 Baltimore, 
 
 Md. 
 
 *Walker, Thomas 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Plantsville, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 White, Henry A. 
 
 
 Wethersfield, 
 
 " 
 
 Wood, James 
 
 
 N. M. H. Togus, 
 
 Maine. 
 
 Wright, John E. 
 
 
 Glastonbury, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 
 Co. D, 
 
 16th C. v., 7. 
 
 
 Engel, Frederick 
 
 
 New Britain, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Grohman, Peter 
 
 Ist Sergt. Granby, 
 
 II 
 
 Holihan, Patrick 
 
 
 Chicopee Falls, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 *Lacy, Henry J. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Fitchburg, 
 
 •• 
 
 Margerum, Claudius C. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Springfield, 
 
 " 
 
 Simons, Geo. E. 
 
 
 Wayneslield, 
 
 Ohio. 
 
 Tate, James 
 
 
 Auburn, 
 
 N. Y. 
 
 
 Co. E, 
 
 16th C. v., 10. 
 
 
 Bassett, Marcelon C. 
 
 
 Hiawatha, 
 
 Kansas. 
 
 Bidwell, Thomas C. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Springfield, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 *Case, Chas. H. 
 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 demons, Willis W. 
 
 
 Conneaut, 
 
 Ohio. 
 
 *Cope, Abraham 
 
 
 Thompsonville, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 ♦Crossley, Thomas 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Honesdale, 
 
 Penn. 
 
 Ducharme, Joseph P. 
 
 
 Ilion, 
 
 N. Y. 
 
 Holcombe, Gavett B. 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Simsbury, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Riley, Morris 
 
 
 New Britain, 
 
 II 
 
 *Stone, Augustus P. 
 
 
 Sheffield, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 
 Co. F, 
 
 16th C. v., 5. 
 
 
 *Denison, Geo. E. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Eagan, James 
 
 
 Springfield, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 *Jones, Geo. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Leonard, Chas. B. 
 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 II 
 
 Robinson, Chas. S. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Rocky Hill, 
 
 " 
 
 
 Co. G, 
 
 16th C. v., 6. 
 
 
 ♦Bauer, Jacob 
 
 1st Sergt 
 
 Kensington, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Cleary, John 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Trenton, 
 
 New Je 
 
 •Hills, Leroy T. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Bristol, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Neal, Napoleon B. 
 
 
 Bristol, 
 
 u 
 
 *Smart, John H. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Broad Brook, 
 
 " 
 
 Smith, Walter E. 
 
 
 Berlin, 
 
 it 
 
 (62) 
 
Burke, Michael 
 
 Baker, Chas. E. 
 
 Burgess, Ezra T. 
 
 Chamberlin, Rufus M. 
 *Cushman, Mahlon D. 
 ♦Harris, Jasper S. 
 
 Hart, Eli A. 
 
 Smith, Orlando P. 
 
 Co. H, 16th C. v., 1. 
 
 Noroton Heights, Conn. 
 
 Co. I, ICth C. v., 7. 
 
 Chelsea, Mass. 
 
 1st Sergt. Plymouth, Mass. 
 
 Staffordville, Conn. 
 
 Monson, Mass. 
 
 Corp. South Coventry, Conn. 
 
 Plain ville, 
 
 Wales, Mass. 
 
 Allen, Edward H. 
 *Adkins, Geo. W. 
 
 Bartholomew, John B. 
 *Bushnell, Huber 
 *Cook, Henry B. 
 ♦Francis, Burnum W. 
 
 Funck, Augustus H. 
 *Hubbell, Wm. 
 *Hurd, Edward P. 
 *Merriman, Henry 
 *Nott, Wm. H. 
 ♦Bobbins, Geo. 
 
 Sessions, Willard F. 
 ♦Thompson, Austin D. 
 
 Co. K, 16th C. v., 14. 
 
 
 
 Bristol, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 
 Forestville, 
 
 (1 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Palestine, 
 
 Texas 
 
 
 Berlin, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Bristol, 
 
 West Cheshire, 
 Bristol, 
 
 It 
 
 11 
 
 
 Bristol, 
 
 (( 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Newtonville, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 
 South Manchester 
 
 Conn. 
 
 1st Sergt. 
 
 Bristol, 
 
 Waterbury, 
 
 Forestville, 
 
 a 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Bristol, 
 
 u 
 
 17th 
 
 Albion, Henry 
 
 Barton, Chas. L. 
 
 Bell, John W. 
 
 Benedict, Enoch B. 
 
 Brodhurst, Alfred Z. 
 
 Bradley, Thomas 
 
 Burtis, Warren J. 
 ♦Cash, Martin 
 
 Feeks, Joseph 
 
 Morris, Theodore S. 
 * Remington, Seth 
 ♦Scofield, Geo. A. 
 ♦Scofield, Lewis W. 
 
 Smallhorn, James A. 
 
 Conn. Volunteer Infantry. 18. 
 
 Co. H Norwalk, 
 
 H New Canaan, 
 
 B New Canaan, 
 
 H , 
 
 H Norwalk, 
 
 E New Haven, 
 
 H , 
 
 B Stamford, 
 
 B Noroton Heights, 
 
 C Noroton Heights, 
 
 Corp. " H Norwalk, 
 
 1st Sergt. " B Waterbury, 
 
 Sergt. " B Stamford, 
 
 H New Canaan, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 N. Y. 
 Conn. 
 
 Iowa. 
 Conn. 
 
 (63) 
 
Smith, Lewis 
 Tread well, Edmund 
 *Wilmot, Frederick M. 
 Weed, Oscar 
 
 Musician 
 
 Co. B Noroton Heights, 
 
 " D Bethel, 
 
 " D New Haven, 
 
 " F Branford, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 18th Conn. Volunteer 
 
 Infantry, 19. 
 
 
 Anderson, Wm. H. 
 
 
 Co. 
 
 B 
 
 Putnam, 
 
 Conn, 
 
 Albertine, Ernest T. 
 
 
 11 
 
 E 
 
 Franklin, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 *Brown, James K. 
 
 
 a 
 
 H 
 
 Hebron, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 *Brown, Reuben B., 
 
 1st Sergt. 
 
 (( 
 
 C 
 
 Norwich, 
 
 u 
 
 Carey, Joel 
 
 Corp. 
 
 li 
 
 C 
 
 Red Oak, 
 
 Iowa 
 
 *Coman, Oscar 
 
 
 u 
 
 D 
 
 Putnam, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Ellsworth, Chas. H. 
 
 
 li 
 
 C 
 
 Rochester, 
 
 N. y. 
 
 *Haggerty, James 
 
 
 ({ 
 
 C 
 
 Willimantic, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Herrick, Geo. W. 
 
 
 u 
 
 H 
 
 Willimantic, 
 
 n 
 
 Leitcher, Gilbert 
 
 
 (( 
 
 G 
 
 Sturbridge, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 *McShane, Owen 
 
 
 (f 
 
 I 
 
 Noroton Heights, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 *Muzzy, Harvey L. 
 
 Musician 
 
 " 
 
 I 
 
 Norwich, 
 
 " 
 
 Penry, Chas. 0. 
 
 
 u 
 
 K 
 
 Togus, 
 
 Me. 
 
 Richards, Chas. J. 
 
 
 It 
 
 A 
 
 Hampton, 
 
 Va. 
 
 * Robertson, Wm. 
 
 
 ii 
 
 I 
 
 Germantown, 
 
 Penn. 
 
 Smith, John F. (not in 
 
 Roster aa prisoner) 
 
 11 
 
 B 
 
 Chicopee Falls, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 *Spalding, Edwin 
 
 
 f( 
 
 I 
 
 Norwich, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Taft, Bazaleel W. 
 
 
 (( 
 
 E 
 
 Willimantic, 
 
 ii 
 
 Trask, Wm. A. 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 it 
 
 B 
 
 Burlington, 
 
 Vt. 
 
 20th Conn. Volunteer Infantry 1. 
 ♦Abbott, Edward T. Corp. Co. H Bridgeport, 
 
 Billings, Sanford M. 
 Blish, Timothy H. 
 *Brown, Abel D. 
 Moffiet, Welcome 
 
 2 1st Conn. Volunteer Infantry i. 
 Co. 
 
 Corp. 
 
 G Stonington, 
 
 A South Manchester, 
 
 G New Haven, 
 
 G Central Villi,ge, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Members of Regiments op other States, now citizens of Connecticut. 
 
 Alden, James E. 
 Braman, Henry 
 Brand egee, Chas. 
 Buell, Edward J. 
 Carrigan, Roger 
 Cotter, John 
 Elliott, Geo. P. 
 
 Co. I, 5th N. Y. V. I. 
 
 Co. G, 2nd Mass. H. A. V. 
 (64) 
 
 Torrington, 
 
 Torrington, 
 
 Farmington, 
 
 East Haven, 
 
 Noroton Heights, 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 Stamford, 
 
 Conn. 
 
French, Geo. B. 
 Gerard, John 
 Hai-dwick, Peter F. 
 Hopkins, Joseph H. 
 Horton, Daniel B. 
 Lewis, Oliver R. 
 ♦Mandeville, Wm. F. 
 Murphy, Patrick 
 Osgood, John A. 
 Roach, Garrett 
 Wilcox, Chas. H. 
 
 Uth U. S. Inf., 
 
 Ivoryton, 
 
 New Britain, 
 
 Brookfield, 
 
 Danbury, 
 
 New Haven, 
 
 Plantsville, 
 
 Danbury, 
 
 Shelton, 
 
 New Haven, 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 Windsor Locks 
 
 Conn. 
 
 These lists do not and cannot include the honored 
 names of Connecticut men who died in the period l)e- 
 tween 1864 and the present date of 1908. Suffice it 
 to say that none are forgotten or excluded from the 
 honors bestowed in our beautiful monmnent, nor are 
 they forgotten by their comrades. Names of men who 
 have died in cpiiet homes, often from diseases contracted 
 in prison and endured heroically until death brovight 
 release, are not less dear or honored than those printed 
 upon our roll. In the name of the State we thank them 
 for their great services and shall hold them always 
 in remembrance. 
 
 In addition to the names starred in the above list, there were of tbe jfarty 
 six veterans and seventeen ladies and citizens, as follows : 
 
 Col. Frank W. Cheney, 
 Hon. Thomas D. Bradstreet, 
 Chaplain Jos. H. Twichell, 
 Capt. Timothy B. Robinson, 
 Mr. John Gemmill, 
 Mr. Henry L. Wade, 
 Mr. Normand F. Allen, 
 Mrs. Normand F. Allen, 
 Mrs. Thomas D. Bradstreet, 
 Mrs. Frank W. Cheney, 
 Miss Dorothy Cheney, 
 Miss Ruth Cheney, 
 Mr. Horace B. Chenev, 
 
 ICth Conn. Vols., 
 •2nd Conn. H. A. Vols., 
 71st New York Vols., 
 16th Conn. Vols., 
 16th Conn. Vols., 
 ISth Conn. Vols., 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Thomaston, " 
 
 South Manchester, " 
 
 (65) 
 
 South Manchestei-. 
 
 Thomaston. 
 
 Hartford. 
 
 Bristol. 
 
 Hartford. 
 
 Waterbury. 
 
Mr. James W. Cheney, 
 Dr. Arthur R. Couch, 
 Miss Clara Denison, 
 Mrs. Norman L. Hope, 
 Mrs. Edward P. Hurd, 
 Mrs. Edwin Spalding, 
 Mrs. Jos. H. Twichell, 
 Mr. Fred'k W. Wakefield, 
 Mrs. Geo. Q. Whitney, 
 Mr. M. B. Wilcox, 
 
 South Manchester, Conn. 
 Hartford, " 
 
 Newtonville, Mass. 
 Norwich, Conn. 
 Hartford, " 
 
 Meriden, " 
 
 Hartford, 
 Southington, '■ 
 
 Monuments have been erected by the following States 
 at Andersonville : 
 
 New Jersey, 
 
 Feljruary, 
 
 1899 
 
 Massachusetts, 
 
 December, 
 
 1901 
 
 Ohio, 
 
 December, 
 
 1901 
 
 Rhode Island, 
 
 April, 
 
 1903 
 
 Michigan, 
 
 May, 
 
 1904 
 
 Maine, 
 
 December, 
 
 1904 
 
 Pennsylvania, 
 
 December, 
 
 1905 
 
 Iowa, 
 
 November, 
 
 1906 
 
 Wisconsin, 
 
 October, 
 
 1907 
 
 Connecticut, 
 
 October, 
 
 1907 
 
 New York, 
 
 To be erected, 
 
 1908 
 
 (66) 
 
RESOLUTIONS BY THE EX-PRISONERS FROM 
 CONNECTICUT PRESENT AT THE DEDICA- 
 TION OF A MONUMENT ERECTED BY THAT 
 STATE AT ANDERSONVILLE, GEORGIA. 
 
 Be it resolved: 
 
 That we, who were prisoners of war in the Anderson- 
 ville Military Prison, and who represented the State of 
 Connecticut by enlisting at her call, do most sincerely 
 tender our thanks to the State and to the Moniunent 
 Commissioners she appointed, and especially to their 
 Chairman, Col. Frank W. Cheney, for erecting a beau- 
 tiful monimient to our fallen comrades, and for making 
 most ample provision for us to be present at its dedication. 
 
 Be it further resolved: 
 
 That a copy of these resolutions be presented to the 
 Commissioners and through them to the State. 
 
 Signed in behalf of the ex-prisoners present at the 
 dedication of the monument, 
 
 WM. H. JACKSON, 
 
 Co. B. 16th Conn. Vols. 
 October 23, 1907. 
 
 {61) 
 
DESCUTPTTON OF ANDEESONVILLE PRISON 
 
 By J. W. Mehkill. 
 
 REVISED BY A FORMER INMATE OF THE PEN, A MEJIBER OF THE COMMISSION. 
 
 THE Confederate States Military Prison, so called, was 
 a stockade made of pine logs, hewn flat on two sides, 
 planted in the ground perpendicularly so that they 
 were about twenty feet high from the ground, enclosing a 
 sj)ace of about 23i acres. 
 
 About tAventy feet inside of this stockade and running 
 parallel with it was a light irregular rail called the dead 
 line, reducing the sj)ace for occupation by the prisoners 
 very materially. Any prisoner passing this line under any 
 pretence or accident, or even reaching under it for purer 
 water, would be inmiediately shot by the nearest sentry, 
 who was closely watching for the opportmiity and the 
 reward, a two weeks furlough. 
 
 On this stockade at intervals sentry boxes were erected 
 to protect the occupants from sun and storm, at an eleva- 
 tion that gave a perfect view of all that was taking place 
 within. 
 
 There were two entrances, both on the west side of the 
 stockade, leading to the north and south ends, each with a 
 court and two massive gates opening into spaces about 30 
 feet square, on the principle of a canal lock. 
 
 About 180 feet outside of the prison stockade was an 
 outer one of unhewn logs aliout twelve feet high from the 
 ground, the evident object being protection against a 
 cavalry raid. 
 
 At each corner of the prison were elevated earth works 
 or forts, on which batteries were stationed commanding 
 not only the inside of the pen, but the surrounding territory 
 also. 
 
 A small brook ran through the enclosure, first passing 
 and gathering the wash from the Rebel camps and cook 
 house. On either side of the brook was a hill, a swamp hav- 
 ing to be passed before reaching the northern hill, vvhioh 
 was higher than that on the south. 
 
 (68) 
 
PLAN OF ANDERSONVILLE PRISON AND ITS SURUOUNBINGS. 
 
 Care-taker's House, erected by the National W. R. C. 11. 
 
 Providence Spring. 13. 
 
 Site of proposed National Moniiinent. 13. 
 
 Outline of purchased property. 14. 
 
 Outline of Stockade enclosing prisoners. 15. 
 
 Outline of Outer Stockade (only partially completed). 16. 
 
 Dead Line. " 17. 
 
 Confederate Forts and Batteries. 18. 
 
 Main Fort, or ■' Star Fort," southwest corner. 19. 
 
 Site of Gallows, where marauders were hung. 20. 
 
 31. 
 
 Powder Magazines in Stsir Fort. 
 
 Site of Capt. Wirz's Headquarters. 
 
 Gate to Roadway leading to the Cemetery. 
 
 Wells and Tunnels dug by prisoners. 
 
 Site of Dead House. 
 
 Entrenched Camp for Guards. 
 
 Roadway, 100 feet wide, leading to railroad station. 
 
 Stockade Creek, a branch of Sweetwater. 
 
 North Gate of Stockade. 
 
 South Gate of Stockade. 
 
 Flag Staff. 
 
 (69) 
 
(Letter to Mr. Pratt from Charles Eliot Norton, Esq.) 
 
 Cambridge, Mass., 
 
 AprU 27, 1907. 
 Dear Mr. Pratt: — 
 
 I am much obliged to you for the photograph of the 
 Andersonville Prisoner Boy and of the Longfellow medal. 
 
 The statue in the photograph seems to me as good as 
 it did when I saw the original at your studio. In its con- 
 ception and execution it does you the highest credit. It 
 is a worthy representation of the youth whom you had in 
 mind, and the mode of representation has a simplicity, 
 vigor and directness such as our modem American sculp- 
 ture often lacks. It may well stand with Saint-Gaudens' 
 " Colonel Shaw," as belonging to the same class. 
 
 As au embodiment of the ideal of the Yankee youth it 
 is interesting in comparison with the ideal of the Athenian 
 youth embodied in the frieze of the Parthenon. The con- 
 trasts are very wide, and the differences of civilization 
 which are indicated are enormous; but set your Amos or 
 Hiram on horseback beside one of the superb Athenian 
 youths, Lysis or Callias, and the two would recognize one 
 another before long, and grow friendly before the day was 
 out. But which represents the best things ? Amos, I think, 
 
 would have much the most to learn 
 
 With all kmd regards, I am 
 
 Sincerely yours 
 
 C. E. Norton. 
 Bela S. Pratt 
 
 (70) 
 
(Quotation from the Boston Transcript concerning the 
 the statue made for the Connecticut Commission by Mr. 
 Bela Lyon Pratt.) 
 
 THIS simple figure of a private infantry soldier, dis- 
 aimed and helpless, standing, with a sober fore- 
 Imowledge of the very probable fate before him, 
 is that of a mere boy, a typical New England lad, who looks 
 as if he might have been just out of the high school of 
 some village when the call for volunteers came. Manly 
 and modest, he is one of the kind who take things as they 
 come, without bravado and without posing. But there 
 is something in the genuineness, the simplicity, the rugged 
 naturalness of the boy's bearing which makes it seem safe 
 to predict that he will be constant and faithful to the end. 
 The figure is eight feet high, and it will stand upon a 
 pedestal of equal height, making the entire mommient 
 sixteen feet in height. The location, in the groimds of 
 Andersonville where the statue will l)e formally dedi- 
 cated by the State of Connecticut next October, appears 
 to be ideal, — a level glade, with a semi-circle of oak trees 
 at the back of the statue. The negative merits of this piece 
 of scidpture are worth emphasizing especially, a subject of 
 this nature being so likely to betray the artist into an essay 
 in the dramatic, allegorical, illustrative or episodic styles 
 with their attendant risks. As it is, the work is absolutely 
 without rhetoric ; it is studiously couched in terms of plastic 
 prose, but in a prose that is noble becaiise of its deeii sin- 
 cerity and reality. Its very absence of meretricious appeal 
 
 (71) 
 
to sentiment makes it ten-fold more suggestive to tlie 
 imagination, as facts of history are more eloquent tlian the 
 comments of the historian. The figure is homely, in the 
 sense that Lowell used when he spoke of Emerson's dic- 
 tion, " It is like homespiui cloth-of-gold. " It is homely in 
 the sense that St. Gaudens' statue of Lincoln is homely: it 
 is strong, rugged and alive. 
 
 The design for the statue was made by 
 
 Bela Lyon Pratt, Sculptor, Boston, Mass. 
 
 The casting in bronze was done by 
 
 Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, Mount Vernon, 
 N. Y. 
 
 The designs for the granite pedestal and bronze tablets 
 were made by 
 
 E. Clipston Sturgis, Architect, Boston, Mass. 
 The granite work was done by 
 
 H. E. Fletcher & Company, West Chehnsford, Mass. 
 The pedestal and statue were set up by 
 
 Clark's Monumental Works, Aniericus, Ga. 
 
 CT2) 
 
ITINERARY. 
 
 MoNnAY. October 21. 
 
 Via N. Y., N^. H. &• H. E. R. 
 
 Lv. New Haven, Conn. 1.00 P. M. 
 
 Ar. Jersey City, N. J. 4.00 P. M. 
 
 Steamer Maryland Eoute. 
 Via Pennsylvania Eailroad. 
 
 Lv. Jersey City, N. J. . " 4.4G P.M. 
 
 Ar. West Philadelphia, Pa 6.36 P. M. 
 
 Ar. Washington, D. C 10.20 P.M. 
 
 Via Southern Eailway. 
 Lv. Washington, D. C 11.00 P.M. 
 
 Tuesday, October 23. 
 
 Ar. Atlanta, Ga. (Central time) 6.15 P.M. 
 
 Via Central of Georgia Eailway. 
 
 Lv. Atlanta, Ga. 6.30 P.M. 
 
 Ar. Andersonville, Ga. 11.30 P.M. 
 
 Wednesday, October 23. 
 
 At Andersonville. 
 Train to be side-tracked for occupancy. 
 
 Thursday, October 24. 
 
 Via Central of Georgia Eailway. 
 
 Lv. Andersonville, Ga. ' . . 3.00 P. M. 
 
 Ar. Atlanta, Ga. 8.00 P.M. 
 
 Via Southern Eailway. 
 Lv. Atlanta, Ga ' . . . 8.15 P. M. 
 
 Friday, October 25. 
 
 Ar. Washington, D. C. (Eastern time) 7.00 P.M. 
 
 Lv. Washington, D. C 7.10 P. M. 
 
 Via Pennsylvania Eailroad. 
 Ar. West Philadelphia, Pa. . " 10.20 P. M. 
 
 Saturday, October 26. 
 
 Ar. Jersey City. N. J 12.41 A. M. 
 
 Via N. Y., N. H. & H. E. E. 
 Steamer Maryland Eoute. 
 
 Lv. Jersey City, N. J 1.00 A.M. 
 
 Ar. New Haven 4.00 A.M. 
 
 Eemain in sleepers until 7.00 A. M. 
 
 Penn. E. E. Eepresentatives. 
 
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 Baggage master . . ■ . . . . . J. J. Good 
 
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