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Reunion and Dedication 
 
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 MONUMENT 
 
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 Arlington National Cemetery^ Va* 
 
 Wednesday, October 21, 1896 
 
 Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery 
 
 D. C KiLBOURN, Secretary 
 
 HARTFORD, CONN. 
 
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REUNION 
 
 AND 
 
 DEDICATION OF 
 
 AT ARLINGTON, VA. 
 
 NATIONAL CEMETERY 
 
 BY THE 
 
 Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery 
 
 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1896. 
 
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To My Comrades— D //^o8 
 
 Fully appreciating the distinguished favor which you have conferred 
 upon me for thirty years by being your permanent Secretary, I take 
 great pleasure in presenting to you this memorial as a souvenir of our 
 pleasant gathering at Arlington, Va., on October 21, 1896. 
 
 I am also pleased to gratify your frequent requests for Mrs. Kil- 
 bourn's picture. She has been my constant helper in my work for the 
 Association, having attended every reunion but one, and pinned on 
 your badges and button-hole bouquets, and proudly w^ears on her hand 
 the handsome diamond ring you gave her at Winsted. At the right of 
 the monument can be seen the beautiful banner of blue silk, embroid- 
 ered by herself and presented to the Association in 1894. 
 
 The picture of A. G. Bliss of Washington, D. C, the " member of 
 Co. E " and Vice-President of the 6th Corps Association at Washing- 
 ton, is that of him to whose indefatigable exertions we are indebted for 
 all the arrangements at Washington and Arlington that made the occa- 
 sion such a complete success. 
 
 Since this has been in the publisher's hands the tragic death of 
 Lieut. S. A. Granger has saddened all our hearts. His picture is here- 
 with presented as a memorial of him who, although not officially upon 
 the committees, took the greatest interest in all matters relating to the 
 monument and dedication, and in everything connected with the Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 The list of dead is necessarily imperfect. Will comrades or others, 
 noticing errors or omissions, kindly notify me. 
 
 DWIGHT C. KILBOURN, Secretary. 
 LiTCHi-iELD, Conn., April 2, 1897. 
 
OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATION. 
 
 President. 
 
 Lieut. FREDERICK M. COOKE. 
 
 Vice-President. 
 
 Secretary and Historian. 
 DWIGHT C. KILBOURN. 
 
 Assistant Secretary. 
 EDWARD S. ROBERTS. 
 
 Treasurer. 
 CHARLES W. HINSDALE. 
 
 Executive Committee. 
 EDWARD W. MARSH, JAS. N. COE, 
 
 A. G. BLISS. 
 
 Monument Committee. 
 
 F. A. Lucas, Goshen, A. G. BlisS, Washington, D. C. 
 
 D. C. KiLBOURN, Litchfield, Wm. H. Lewis, Bridgeport, 
 
 H. S. McKiNNEY, Hartford, Wm. H. Whitelaw, Hartford. 
 
ITINERARY OF THE TRIP. 
 
 SUNDAY, October i8th, leave Jersey City at 9 a. m.; dinner at 
 Baltimore at 1.30 p. m.; leave Baltimore at 2.15; arrive at 
 Harper's Ferry, 4.30; arrive at Winchester, 5.30 p. m. 
 
 MONDAY, October 19th. Dedication of Twelfth Regiment monu- 
 ment at 10 o'clock A. M., balance of the day spent in visiting 
 the battlefields about Winchester and vicinity. 
 
 TUESDAY, October 20th, leave for Cedar Creek at 8 a. m. ; return- 
 ing from there to Winchester at 11.30; arrive at Winchester 
 at 12.00 ; dinner ; leave Winchester at 1.30 ; arrive at Harper's 
 Ferry at 2.30 p. m., when there will be an opportunity to 
 visit Bolivar Heights, from whence a beautiful view can be 
 had of Loudon Heights and Maryland Heights ; also a look 
 can be had at the spot where John Brown, of historic fame, 
 made his strike for the freedom of the slave ; leave Harper's 
 Ferry at 3.30 p. m., arriving at Washington at 5.15, where 
 the special train will be mustered out. 
 
 WEDNESDAY, (. ctober 21st. Dedication of the Second Heavy 
 Artillery Regiment's Monument at Arlington, at 11.00 a. m., 
 returning to Washington after the ceremonies of dedication 
 are over, after which sight-seeing will be in order. 
 
 Return home can be made on any regular train of the Baltimore 
 & Ohio Railroad, from Washington, prior to November 2, 1896. 
 
DWIGHT C. KILBOURN 
 
 Sfiri'fitry und IlixtCDUin. 
 
MRS. SARAH M. KILBOURN. 
 
THE EXCURSION. 
 
 ON the morning of October i8, 1896, about a hundred 
 and fifty persons assembled at the depot of the 
 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Jersey City, N. J., as members 
 of the excursion party, destined for Winchester, Va., and 
 Washington, D. C, to dedicate the monuments erected by. 
 the State of Connecticut in honor of its 12th Conn. Infantry 
 and 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery Regiments. 
 
 At nine o'clock, three well-filled passenger coaches and 
 one sleeper slowly started out of the junction, and were soon 
 speeding over the marshes and bays and through the vary- 
 ing rural scenes of New Jersey, where the innumerable 
 advertising signboards lend such a charm to the views and 
 furnish contemplative subjects for the traveler and make the 
 underground journey under Philadelphia in a smoky tunnel 
 a great relief. Arriving at Baltimore, a good dinner 
 awaited us in the dining-room, and at two o'clock, with an 
 additional sleeper added, we left for Washington, arriving 
 there at three, and took on a number more of the excursion- 
 ists. After a short delay we started out for Harper's Ferry 
 over the " Metropolitan Branch," passing over ground that 
 was once the scene to many of us of weary marches, tire- 
 some camp life, unpleasant skirmishes, and bloody battles 
 — and the "boys" were busy locating various places to 
 memory dear. One incident we shall long remember, the 
 passage over a deep gorge or ravine, upon a seemingly frail 
 trestle-work, while workmen were busy erecting an iron 
 bridge. " A bridge of sighs " truly it was. 
 
 Due at Harper's Ferry at 4.30, we reached it at about 
 six, and after a short stop we proceeded up the Shenandoah 
 in the darkness to Winchester, which we reached at nearly 
 seven, finding a large crowd awaiting us. Captain Dudrow, 
 connected with the B. & O. road, had met us at Baltimore 
 
and assigned accommodations for all at the various hotels and 
 boarding-houses ; so that there was very little confusion, and 
 soon all were enjoying good suppers at pleasant, comfortable 
 homes. 
 
 In the evening nearly all attended the services in the 
 different churches, some of which had prepared special 
 exercises in honor of their Northern guests. 
 
 "In the slumbers of midnight, our cares flew away 
 And visions of happiness danced o'er our mind." 
 
 At morning's dawn the rested slumberers awoke, not 
 roused as we were thirty-two years ago by booming guns 
 and shrieking shell and the pit-a-pat of the minnie, nor 
 summoned to deadly combat by hurrying orderlies, but by 
 the farmers' carts rattling along the stony street, and the 
 whistle of the factory and the fragrant smell of the cooking 
 breakfast. How suggestive of the past that morning table 
 — fried chicken, lamb chops, corn bread ! Oh, memory of 
 Berryville ! 
 
 At an early hour assembly was made in front of the 
 Court House beneath which the bones of Lord Fairfax rest, 
 and the pickaninnies furnished amusement gathering in stray 
 pennies. Then line was formed, and, escorted by the Union 
 Cornet Band of the city we marched to the national ceme- 
 tery, half a mile distant on the Berryville Pike, and partici- 
 pated in exercises of the dedication of the monument to the 
 1 2th Conn. Infantry. 
 
 The afternoon of this day was devoted to visiting the 
 battlefield of the Opequan, locally known as the " Hack- 
 wood Farm," gathering bullets, sticks for canes, and such 
 other relics as could be found, while the kodakers touched 
 the button at nearly every spot, and some fine views were 
 gathered in. Night came and we again encamped, some at 
 the Taylor House, as" in' years long ago, while others 
 bivouaced in other houses, and waited for the inorning call. 
 
 At half-past eight, Tuesday morning, our train left Win- 
 chester for Cedar Creek, and in about half an hour stopped 
 at the little station, and the party, now of two hundred or 
 more, were soon scrambling over the ledges and hills, all 
 anxious to find where some one was wounded, or some com- 
 
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 rade was killed in the bloody carnag'e of thirty-two years 
 before. It was not easy to identify the ground from memo- 
 ries thirty years old, but, after two hours, the re-assembling 
 parties all seemed to be satisfied with their visits, and, 
 boarding the train with their relics of the battlefield, were 
 soon landed back in Winchester for dinner. 
 
 Upon our return from Cedar Creek after dinner, at 1.30 
 p. M., our train left Winchester for Washington, stopping 
 nearly two hours at Harper's Ferry which time was well im- 
 proved by parties visiting Bolivar Heights, Jefferson's Rock, 
 and other objects of historical interest in this wild, romantic 
 city. The train reached Washington about six o'clock, and 
 the excursionists went to the various hotels provided for 
 them. 
 
 On the morning of October 21st, at nine o'clock, the 
 members of the regiment were provided with a special 
 train on the electric road to Arlington, crossing Long Bridge, 
 and were landed at the " Sheridan " gate of the national 
 cemetery. A walk of quarter of a mile took us to the 
 Mansion House and which we knew as Gen. DeRussey's 
 Headquarters, in rear of which the Auditorium had been 
 elegantly draped and festooned for our dedicatory exercises. 
 
THE DEDICATION. 
 
 THE first exercise of the day was the annual reunion of 
 the Regiment, the details of which will be found in 
 another chapter. After this business meeting was closed, 
 the exercises proper of the dedication began. 
 
 The rostrum was occupied by the 6th Regiment United 
 States Cavalry Band, the various officers of the association, 
 by invited members of the 12th Regiment Association, Gen- 
 eral H. G. Wright, former commander of the 6th Corps, and 
 his daughter, Mrs. Wright Smith, an adopted daughter of 
 the 6th A. C ; by reporters of the Washington papers, and 
 other friends ; while the seats in the auditorium were filled 
 by a large audience of Connecticut residents of the city. 
 
 The exercises were opened by " The American Guard 
 March," rendered by the band. 
 
 The President, Lieutenant F. M. Cooke, introduced our 
 former comrade. Captain (now Rev.) James Deane of 
 Crown Point, N. Y., who offered the following 
 
 "INVOCATION 
 
 " Infinite and almighty God, Creator of ourselves, and Author of 
 every liberty that we may rightly enjoy, to Thee we lift our prayer as 
 we gather here, on this ground made sacred by its memorials of sacri- 
 fice. 
 
 " Be Thou near to us, the living, who assemble to do fitting honor 
 to the memory of our comrades dead. Sanctify to us all the reminders 
 that make fresh appeal to our hearts in this hour, and help us to prize 
 more truly our land and its choicest institutions, for the maintenance of 
 which our comrades gave themselves so freely. 
 
 " Make Thou the story of their devotion yet more pregnant with 
 the power of a worthy impression upon our hearts, and in our homes as 
 well ; that those now growing beside us, upon whom must soon devolve 
 the gravest responsibilities of our citizenship, may learn the lesson, and 
 grow equally in the knowledge and the love of country, of liberty, of 
 truth, and of Thyself. Help us to the exercise of a fitting purpose and 
 
CAPT. EDWARD W. :MAR.SH 
 Chnirinan E.xeciitivc Cotiiiiiittif. 
 
spirit in the different elements of our present service, and to that con- 
 stancy and faith in all the duties of our citizenship which is becoming 
 on the part of those whom Thou hast called to so great privileges, and 
 the cherishing of such inspiring memories. 
 
 " So may Thy blessing rest upon us, and upon all whose thoughts 
 turn toward this place to-day. So may Thy providence effectually pro- 
 tect our land and nation through all the chances and changes of the 
 future, and make our country increasingly the harbinger of hope for 
 the world. All which of present grace and future favor we ask in the 
 name of Thy Son, our Redeemer. Amen." 
 
 Then the " Recollections of the War," a grand medley of 
 war songs from the band, followed, after which Comrade 
 William E. Disbrow of Company H, now Quartermaster- 
 General of the State of Connecticut, briefly presented the 
 monument to the Association in behalf of the State of Con- 
 necticut. 
 
 The rendering of " The Soldier's Farewell " by the band 
 called forth great applause, and then Captain Edward W. 
 Marsh received the monument in behalf of the Association, 
 as follows : 
 
 " We are thankful that the State of Connecticut has made 
 provision for the erection of one monument for every regi- 
 ment, in order to commemorate the deeds of her sons who 
 served in the War of the great Rebellion. 
 
 " We are especially thankful that it is our privilege to 
 locate the one perpetuating the valor of our own regiment 
 upon these beautiful grounds, which have been forever set 
 apart and consecrated as a burial place for the dead heroes 
 of our beloved country. 
 
 " That not far away is the memorial of our late commander 
 and leader, the distinguished General vSheridan, who was so 
 great a favorite with us, and in whom we placed the most 
 implicit confidence, whether in camp, on the march, or in 
 time of battle. 
 
 " This monument will remain a perpetual witness to the 
 patriotism of the 2,700 and more men who enlisted in the 
 19th Connecticut Infantry and the 2d Connecticut Volunteer 
 Heavy Artillery for the purpose of sustaining the imion of 
 these United States and the integrity of our great Re- 
 public. 
 
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 " More than this, it will remain a memorial of the 500 
 and more men killed and wounded in the various engage- 
 ments on the battle-field. 
 
 " It is also a memorial of those members of our organiz- 
 ation who have died since the close of the war. 
 
 " We behold also our own monument, dedicated before 
 the final roll-call that shall summon each and every one of 
 us before the Judge of all the earth. 
 
 " On this occasion, and in the presence of these witnesses, 
 we declare anew our allegiance to the government, and our 
 faith in the starry flag which is the symbol of our Union. 
 
 " We believe now, as we did in the past, in the preserva- 
 tion of this Union. 
 
 " We believe that religious liberty and civil liberty should 
 be inseparable. 
 
 " We believe that religion, morality, and knowledge are 
 essential to good government and the happiness of man- 
 kind. 
 
 " Comrades, do not we speak your sentiments when we 
 accept with gratitude this gift from our State, realizing the 
 intent and spirit of our beloved commonwealth in its pre- 
 sentation, and with a full understanding of all it means to 
 us and those who shall come after us." 
 
 Captain Marsh's address was followed by music, " My 
 Lodging is on the Cold Ground," after which Hon. A. C. 
 Hendrick, mayor of New Haven, and Chaplain Bradford, 
 representing the 12th Regiment Connecticut Infantry, made 
 brief remarks. 
 
 The following poem by Comrade DeWitt C. Sprague was 
 omitted, owing to the illness of its distinguished author : 
 
 AT ARLINGTON. 
 
 Dear Arlington ! thy vernal bloom is shed, 
 Thy summer loveliness has passed away, 
 But Autumn comes, ere Winter's icy sway, 
 
 To deck thy sod with purple, gold, and red. 
 
 Connecticut, these sacred mounds for thee 
 Enfold thy children's dust, and now we bring 
 To their dear memory our offering. 
 
 Although the song of praise should loftier be. 
 
BREVET-COL. A H. FENN. 
 
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 Thy sons, proud State, thy faithful sons have bled \ 
 
 On many a glorious field for Freedom's right, ' 
 
 To crush the tyrants or Rebellion's might, ' 
 
 Through many a deadly breach heroic led. j 
 
 Their deeds require no storied column high, ] 
 
 No voice of eloquence, no flattering song ; ( 
 
 They are our heritage, and they belong j 
 
 To Fame and Freedom, and shall never die. ( 
 
 Though massive granite crumble all away i 
 
 And perish every trophy of their fame, j 
 
 Still their proud memory would live on the same, , 
 
 Preserved and honored to the latest day. i 
 
 They rear themselves a living monument I 
 
 Who for their country fight, or die for her ; 
 
 Earth's tenderest bosom is their sepulchre ; ] 
 
 That's hallowed ground with which their dust is blent ! ; 
 
 Ah ! Freedom knows and guards the lonely grave ; 
 
 That bears the touching epitaph, " Unknown ! " ■ 
 
 Blessing the sod, she clamis it as her own, : 
 
 While eyes unseen weep o'er the nameless brave. 
 
 Tread softly ! Freedom's voice hath blessed the ground ! { 
 
 Here sleep her children. Never, never more | 
 
 The drum will rouse, or cannon's awful roar. l 
 
 Rest on, O honored dead, in peace profound ! 
 
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 When thou shalt come again, O gentle Spring ! j 
 
 Bedeck with mantle green each lowly bed, • J 
 
 Fresh immortelles with dewy fingers spread, ■ 
 
 And let thy feathered choir the requiem sing. 
 
 Major A. H. Fenn, now a judge of the Supreme Court of 
 Errors of Connecticut, then delivered the following : 
 
 ORATION. 
 
 It is not my purpose to recite, except in the briefest ". 
 possible way, those events that constitute what might be 
 
 called the history of our regiment, — that history, the best, ': 
 
 I think, of all regimental histories, the masterpiece among | 
 such works, was written by a comrade tender and true, 
 
 whom we loved in life because he first loved us, and who to- I 
 
 day is, as I trust, with the great majority of our old asso- j 
 
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 ciates, waiting (and they will not have long to wait) to 
 extend to us who still survive an old-time welcome on the 
 other side. That history is written also on every brain, and 
 in every heart, of those who once wore its uniform, and 
 marched beneath its flags as they floated upon the front of 
 battle, and led to victory for our cause, and death for the 
 right. This is enough for us. It should be enough for 
 those for whom we fought. A word only, then, of that con- 
 cerning which, if fully told, the world could not contain the 
 volumes which would be written. 
 
 The Nineteenth Connecticut Infantry was the response 
 of Litchfield county to the call of the President for addi- 
 tional troops at the close of the Peninsula campaign in the 
 suinmer of 1862. It sprang, armed and equipped, from the 
 loins of the people, and joined, full voiced, in the answering 
 cry, " We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred 
 thousand more." Our first service was under and in a 
 Slough. To be the scavengers of Alexandria did not seem 
 very glorious, but it was like the path of glory in this, that 
 it led many of our dear comrades to the grave. Call not 
 such deaths untimely, or too early. 
 
 " Before the fight to fall out of the ranks, 
 
 Dead and unslain, 
 To miss their glorious guerdon of God's thanks 
 
 That die for men. 
 
 " To fade before the sunset, when the noon 
 
 Brightens the brow, 
 Hush, rebel heart, nor answer thou ' Too soon,' 
 
 When God calls ' Now.' 
 
 " Whoso has loved the light, for him the sun 
 
 Will rise anew. 
 Whoso has done his best, leaves naught undone 
 That man can do." 
 
 Then came our detail in the forts, long continued, fully 
 occupied, arduous in many ways, useful to the country in all 
 ways, resulting in our transference to another branch 
 under the name of the Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery, 
 and fitting us to better perform the signal service waiting 
 for us in the field. 
 
 Then came the 17th day of May, 1864, and from that time 
 
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 forward I shall here only say, wherever the history of the deeds 
 of the Army of the Potomac, under Grant and Meade, and of 
 the Arm^y of the Shenandoah, under Sheridan, and of the 
 old Sixth Corps, under that gallant and beloved son of Con- 
 necticut, whom God has spared to be with us here to-day, 
 Maj.-Gen. Horatio G. Wright, in that last year of the war, 
 from the Wilderness through Cold Harbor to Petersburg, 
 back to Washington, to Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Cedar 
 Creek, Petersburg again, Hatcher's Run, Sailor Creek to 
 Appomattox, shall be inscribed, pointing with proud finger 
 to that record every surviving member of our regiment may 
 say, " All of this I saw, and part of it I was." So much the 
 living may say. But what of the dead who strewed its path- 
 way everywhere ? They died that the nation might live. 
 And, thanks be to God, the nation lives, and they have their 
 reward. 
 
 The State of Connecticut erected this monument in honor 
 of our regiment, and in memory of its dead. It was fitting 
 that it should do this ; fitting, also, that such memorial 
 should be placed in a national cemetery. The vines * jour- 
 neyed or rested, by the stars, wherever we went or were. 
 And when we journey no more, but rest forever more, the 
 vines still cluster about us, and the stars glow in lustre 
 above. 
 
 And it is fitting, also, that this monument should stand 
 in this particular cemetery and place. It was in this vicinity 
 that much of our useful service was performed. Here, some 
 of our fallen comrades sleep. Here, in the future years, in 
 an especial degree, those v^ho in the love of our country 
 seek to pay respect and do reverence to its defenders will 
 come and linger and adore. This will be Freedom's and 
 Fame's eternal camping ground, and glory will here abide 
 forever, and keep safe and holy this bivouac of the dead. 
 
 We are here to-day to dedicate this memorial. And yet, 
 how true is the thought expressed in the immortal words of 
 Abraham Lincoln, at Gettysburg, that such dedication can- 
 not be made by words. It comes from action. Not from 
 the lips, but from the life. It is for us, the living, rather, to 
 be dedicated here to that cause for which they died ; the 
 
 * Alluding to the vines on the State coat-of-arms. 
 
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 cause of free government ; to the establishment, upon 
 sure and stable and immovable foundations, of that union of 
 states, which, though many, shall be one, and, though de- 
 noted by separate stars, shall constitute a single glorious 
 constellation, whose radiance shall irradiate and enlighten 
 the world. 
 
 As we stand here to-day, a flood-tide of memories, rich, 
 tender, and precious, rush in upon us with overwhelming 
 force. The present, with all its thoughts, cares, activities, 
 and duties, vanishes, and is submergetl. In place of this, the 
 scenes of the past come vividly to view. We see again the 
 white tents spread over the plain, the blazing camp fires, 
 the sentries pacing lonely beats in the silence of the night, 
 the skeletons in rebel prison cells, the fevered and delirious 
 soldiers in tent or hospital. We hear the bugles. We see 
 the rush to arms, the rally round the flags. We feel the 
 shock of battle. We look into the sweet faces of living com- 
 rades, and then only a moment later we look down upon 
 those same faces lying at our feet, calm, still, and radiant 
 with the peace of God that passeth all understanding, — 
 the faces of those who have fought a good fight, who have 
 finished their course, who have kept the faith ; who, as the 
 Master died to make men holy, themselves died to make 
 men free. 
 
 Oh, brothers in the past, brothers now, brothers forever ! 
 — the state from which you went, the country for which 
 you died, dedicates this monument to your memory, conse- 
 crates it to you with its gratitude, hallows it by its love. Oh, 
 sacred trust committed to these stones, to stand through 
 centuries to come and tell to all the story of those who so 
 loved their native land that they counted it a privilege to 
 die in its defense ! But not for this only will it stand ; not 
 merely to point to the past, to speak of those whose work is 
 ended, but also, nay, rather, to show from the past to the 
 present and to the future the path of duty in which they 
 led, and we who live, and those who come after us should 
 follow. 
 
 So, in the providence of God, let us trust that it will 
 prove. Thus, and thus only, shall it come to be, that the 
 dead of our regiment shall not have died in vain. During 
 
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 the war we contributed to, and largely constituted the de- 
 fense of the nation's capitol, on this side of the Potomac. As 
 then, so now, and hereafter, may it be. Where we stood, 
 this memorial stands ; where we went, if there be need, 
 other regiments bearing the same emblem of state and 
 nation shall go, actuated by the same purpose, animated by 
 the example set for them in the past. ^ Because our regi- 
 ment lived and did its duty, others like it will live and do 
 theirs also. Thus, while warring only for a perishing im- 
 perialism, the old guard of France, at Waterloo, died, though 
 it would not surrender. Our regiment, standing for the 
 eternal rights of man, also never surrendered. And it will 
 never die. As I look into the visages of my surviving com- 
 rades here to-day, I see beneath the wrinkles and waste and 
 wear of thirty superadded years, the same fires that glowed 
 in your 3^outhful faces and led you on to battle then. I feel, 
 I know, that the spirit that animated and nerved our regi- 
 ment then has not lessened or weakened as the ranks have 
 melted and lessened and gone down. It will live while we 
 live. And when he who shall be so unfortunate as to be the 
 last survivor of us all shall stand alone, he will stand anxious 
 for the final summons to come, and ready in prompt re- 
 sponse to shoulder arms and forward march into the great 
 beyond, with the battle cry of freedom, and the shout of 
 victory on his lips, that shall be taken up and carried on as 
 though by our again united and unbroken ranks, by count- 
 less millions yet unborn, and through unnumbered ages yet 
 to come. 
 
 At the close of the oration, the audience, accompanied by 
 the band, sang "America," under the leadership of Stephen 
 Maslen, the builder of the monument. 
 
 The comrades then marched to the monument which had 
 been beautifully draped by Superintendent Drum, and un- 
 veiling it grouped themselves around it, and were photo- 
 graphed by L. C. Handy, the war photographer of Wash- 
 ington, D. C. 
 
 A basket-lunch had been provided by Mrs. A. G. Bliss 
 and daughters, which was greatly relished and enjoyed by 
 nearly all the comrades. 
 
 At half-past one in the afternoon a squadron of the 6th 
 
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 U. S. Cavalry, under command of Col. Samuel S. Sumner, 
 gave a parade and drill upon the drill-ground of Fort Mey- 
 ers, directly in rear of the cemetery. It was an interesting 
 reminiscence of more than thirty years ago, when the artil- 
 lery brigade and Gen. " Bob " Tyler was often induced to 
 show some proficiency in military movements upon these 
 grounds, and our vote of thanks was certainly only a feeble 
 expression of our feelings. Thus ended, with our return to 
 Washington and subsequent sight-seeing, this pleasant trip. 
 
 THE REUNION. 
 
 The 30th annual reunion of the Second Connecticut 
 Heavy Artillery was held in the amphitheatre of Arlington 
 Cemetery, Virginia, on Wednesday, October 21, 1896, at 10 
 in the forenoon. It was called to order by the President, 
 Lieut. F. M. Cooke. The Secretary's, Treasurer's, and His- 
 torian's reports were read and accepted. 
 
 The following comrades were elected officers of the 
 Association for the ensuing year : 
 
 President — Capt. James Dean, Crown Point, N. Y. 
 Vice-President — Lt. Chas. A. Reynolds, Noroton, Conn. 
 Secretary atid Historian — D. C. Kilbourn, Litchfield, Conn. 
 Asst. Secretary — E. S. Roberts, East Canaan, Conn. 
 Treasurer — Chas. W. Hinsdale, Litchfield, Conn. 
 
 The Executive Committee to be appointed by the Presi- 
 dent and to have power to arrange for next reunion. The 
 following report was presented : 
 
 Report of the Committee of the Second Conn. Heavy Artillery 
 Association Pegarditig Honorary Membership. 
 
 Your committee, to whom was referred the resolution 
 presented by Comrade A. G. Bliss, at the last annual re- 
 union of this Association, beg to submit the following re- 
 port : 
 
 The resolution referred to is as follows : 
 
 Whereas, as the membership of this association is surely thinning 
 year by year, and in view of the expectancy of human Ufa the associa- 
 tion must soon cease to exist, unless recruited from some source other 
 
FREDERICK M. COOKE 
 President 0/ Association. 
 
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 than from those who served in the glorious old regiment to which we 
 belonged ; 
 
 Therefore, in order to perpetuate this association, and also that the 
 name and fame of the 19th Conn. Infantrj'' and 2d Conn. Heavy Artil- 
 lery maj^ be preserved and handed down to posterity, be it 
 
 Resolved, That the sons of those who belonged to said organiza- 
 tions shall be eligible to honorary membership in this association, pro- 
 vided that candidates for such membership shall have attained the age 
 of 18 years, and shall be in good repute in the community in which they 
 reside. Be it further 
 
 Resolved, That applications for such honorary membership shall 
 be presented to the executive committee of this association, which com- 
 mittee shall report to the association for favorable action only the names 
 of such persons as are found to possess the essential qualifications enu- 
 merated above. Be it further 
 
 Resolved, That a viva voce vote of the association shall be had 
 upon the report of the executive committee, and that on receiving a ma- 
 jority vote and upon the payment of annual dues, candidates shall 
 
 be constituted honorary members of the association and shall be quali- 
 fied to participate in its proceedings. 
 
 Your committee has given due consideration to this mat- 
 ter, and while the sense of this Association has heretofore 
 been adverse to the establishment of an honorary member- 
 ship, it is believed that, as our comrades are rapidly falling- 
 out of the ranks, the time is now propitious for such action. 
 
 It must be apparent that without some steps of this na- 
 ture are taken to augment our numbers our Association 
 must necessarily cease to exist in a few years at the most. 
 
 Your cominittee believes that the perpetuation of this 
 Association is desirable, not only as a means of handing 
 down to posterity the name and fame of the glorious old 
 regiment in which we served, but also as a means of instill- 
 ing into the breasts of our posterity that patriotic ardor 
 which is the safety of the Republic. 
 
 By pursuing this course we shall be. but following in the 
 footsteps of many semi-military societies, among which 
 may be mentioned the society of the 14th Conn. Regiment, 
 which, at its reunion held in 1893, adopted a resolution 
 providing for the admission to honorary membership of 
 sons of its members. 
 
 During the first two years that the resolution was in op- 
 eration twenty-four sons availed themselves of the oppor- 
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 tunity thus afforded, and the wisdom of such action is be- 
 coming more manifest every year. 
 
 Your committee therefore recommend the passage of 
 the resolution after it shall be amended by inserting " fifty 
 cents " in the hiatus, and by adding at the close of the reso- 
 lution the words "but shall not be entitled to a vote on 
 strictly business matters." 
 
 A. G. Bliss, ] 
 
 H. S. McKiNNEY, I 
 
 S. A. Granger, J^ Committee. 
 
 James N. Coe, 
 
 James Deane, 
 
 Upon motion, the report was accepted and the commit- 
 tee discharged. 
 
 It was then moved that the resolutions offered by the 
 committee be adopted, and after a long debate the resolu- 
 tions, as amended, were adopted. 
 
 The following report of the Monument Committee was 
 received and accepted. 
 
 To our Comrades — 
 
 The General Assembly of Connecticut, at its session of 
 1893, passed a resolution authorizing the Quartermaster- 
 General of the State to erect for each regiment of the State 
 engaged in the rebellion a monument at a cost not to 
 exceed one thousand dollars, and to be placed in some 
 national cemetery or battlefield, the plans and location to 
 be approved by the regimental association, and subject to 
 certain conditions specified in said act and resolution. 
 
 A special meeting of this regiment was held in Bridge- 
 port early in 1894 to take the matter into consideration, 
 whose action resulted in the appointment of a Monumental 
 Committee, consisting of Comrades F. A. Lucas, D. C. Kil- 
 bourn, W. H. Lewis, A. G. Bliss, and H. S. McKinney. 
 They procured different designs and reported the same at 
 the reunion in New Milford in 1894. The association 
 adopted the design of Comrade Kilbourn, and continued 
 the same committee, and voted that the monument be loca- 
 ted at Arlington Cemetery, Virginia, that Judge Fenn be 
 
ALFRED G. BLISS 
 
 Committee at li'ns/u'ngtoit, D. C 
 
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 invited to deliver the oration at its dedication, and that we 
 would accept the provisions of the act of the legislature. ' 
 
 The committee then proceeded with their duties. Mr. 
 Kilbourn went to Washington, and was by Senator O. H. 
 Piatt introduced to Gen. Batchelor, the Quartermaster-Gen- 
 eral of the United States army, and who was pleased to give 
 us lot loo in Section B for the site. 
 
 In 1895, Comrade W. E. Disbrow of Company H became 
 the Quartermaster-General of the State of Connecticut, and 
 the plans and specifications were handed over to him for 
 execution. 
 
 It was expected that the monument would be erected in 
 1895, b^'^t various circumstances interfered, and your com- 
 mittee reported the progress made to the reunion at Lake- 
 ville in 1895, and were again continued as the committee, 
 and W. H. Whitelaw was added to it ; and it is mainly 
 through his efforts that the excursion and transportation 
 arrangements were made. 
 
 Various circumstances have delayed the dedication until 
 now, and in closing our report we wish to thank you all for 
 your continual assistance and support. 
 
 We append the builders' description of it for your pres- 
 ervation, and hope that future generations may recognize 
 its beauty and feel proud of this recorded gratitude of our 
 commonwealth. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 F. A. Lucas, 
 
 D. C. Kilbourn, 
 
 H. S. McKiNNEY, y Committee. 
 
 A. G. Bliss, 
 
 W. H. Lewis, 
 
 W. H. Whitelaw, 
 
 Mr. Maslen's Description. 
 
 The 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery monument is made of 
 dark gray granite from Quincy, Mass., and copper-bronze. 
 It consists of three bases, a die, sub-die, and the corps badge 
 in the form of a cross. It is 6 feet square at the base, and 
 stands 12 ft. 4 in. above the ground line. It is lettered and 
 ornamented as follows : 
 
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 On front of cross in raised letters — 
 
 2D 
 
 CONNECTICUT 
 
 HEAVY 
 
 ARTY. 
 
 On face of upper die in V, sunken letters — 
 
 ORIGINALLY 
 
 IQTH 
 
 CONNECTICUT 
 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 On front of lower die in V, sunken letters (circling) — 
 
 ERECTED A. D. 1 896 
 
 BY (coat of arms) THE 
 
 STATE OF CONN. 
 
 The coat of arms is of copper-bronze. 
 
 On right-hand side of lower die as you face the mon- 
 ument — 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS. 
 
 Sl'OTTSYLVANIA 
 
 NORTH ANNA RIVER 
 
 HANOVERTOWN 
 
 COLD HARBOR 
 
 PETERSBURG 
 
 WELDON RAILROAD 
 
 On back of lower die — 
 
 FORT STEVENS 
 
 OPEQUAN 
 
 FISHERS HILL 
 
 CEDAR CREEK 
 
 HATCHERS RUN 
 
 PETERSBURG 
 
 SAILORS CREEK 
 
 APPOMATTOX 
 
 On left-hand side of lower die, as you face the monu- 
 ment — 
 
 MUSTERED IN SEPT. II, 1862 
 
 CHANGED TO ARTILLERY, NOV. 23, 1 863 
 
 MUSTERED OUT AUG. 18, 1865 
 
 TOTAL ENROLLMENT 25OO 
 
 TOTAL KILLED 254 
 
 TOTAL DEATHS 427 
 
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 On front face of top base in raised letters — 
 
 DEFENCES 
 OF 
 
 WASHINGTON 
 
 On front face of second base in raised figures — 
 1862 1865 
 
 . The monument is like the sketch printed herewith. The 
 monument cost one thousand ($1,000) dollars, including the 
 price of foundation, and was built and placed in the Na- 
 tional Cemetery at Arlington, Va., by Stephen Maslen of 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Upon motion of 
 Capt. Jas. Deane, sec- 
 onded by Capt. Coe, it 
 was voted, that Com- 
 rade Thos. L. Norton of 
 Salisbury be an honor- 
 ary member of this as- 
 sociation. 
 
 The historian re- 
 ported the following 
 deaths as received by 
 him during the past 
 year : Henry W. Hotch- 
 kiss, Co. A ; Henry C. 
 Osborn, (A) ; Dwight 
 Hallock, (B) ; Charles 
 O. Whaples, (B); Allen 
 Rogers, (B); A. F. Mi- 
 ner, (C); E. B. Sage, 
 (E); George W. Gibbs, 
 
 (E); A. McCormick, (F); John Harrington, (H); Henry Mal- 
 lett, (H) ; Thomas Shaw, (I); Andrew Tiernay, (I) ; Ste- 
 phen Olmsted (I) ; Hubert Banker, (K); Geo. H. Knapp, 
 (K); E. S. Tubbs, (M). 
 
 It was unanimously voted. That the thanks of this asso- 
 ciation be tendered to Col. Samuel S. Sumner, commanding 
 6th U. S. Cavalry, for his courtesy in tendering the services 
 
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 of the excellent band attached to his command on the occa- 
 sion of the dedication of our regimental monument at the 
 Arlington National Cemetery ; and also for enabling- this 
 association to witness a squadron parade and drill by said 
 command on this occasion. 
 
 That our thanks be tendered to Charles F. Humphrey, 
 Major and Quartermaster U. S. A., for the many courtesies 
 and great assistance rendered by him as Depot Quarter- 
 master in charge of the National Cemetery at Arlington, 
 Va , on the occasion of the dedication of our regimental 
 monument at said cemetery on October 21, 1896. 
 
 That our thanks be tendered to Capt. A. B. Drum, Su- 
 perintendent National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., for the 
 kindness and courtesy received at his hands as superin- 
 tendent on the occasion of the dedication of our regi- 
 mental monument therein on October 21, 1896. 
 
 Lieut. S. A. Granger acted as deacon and passed around 
 the hat and collected a handsome sum for our regimental 
 expenses. 
 
 The association then adjourned subject to the call of the 
 executive committee. 
 
 D. C. KiLBOURN, Secretary. 
 
ARLINGTON. 
 
 PROBABLY no cemetery in the world will be more cele- 
 brated or honored in the future than this National 
 Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia. It is the last resting-place 
 of more than sixteen thousand men, who died upon the 
 battle-fields around their country's capital in its defense 
 when it was menaced and attacked by foes upholding a 
 slaveholders' rebellion. 
 
 "men who died that their country might live." 
 
 The history of these beautiful grounds is interesting as 
 an incident of the home life of Washington. 
 
 The love marriage of Washington and Widow Custis was 
 never blessed with children, but she came to Mount Vernon 
 with her two children, John Parke Custis and Martha Custis. 
 Martha, a lovely girl, died at the age of sixteen, and John 
 became the sole heir of immense estates ; and, instead of 
 going to college and becoming a clergyman, as Washington 
 wished, he ran away from school, and at the age of nine- 
 teen, in 1774, married a Maryland beauty, Eleanor Calvert, 
 and soon bought of the Alexanders the present tract, now 
 known as Arlington, of about 1,100 acres, naming it after 
 the Earl of Arlington, one of the early grantees of Virginia 
 lands. Custis espoused the cause of the colonies, and was 
 an aid of General Washington during the Revolutionary war, 
 and died of the camp fever at Yorktown immediately after 
 the surrender of Cornwallis. Washington adopted his two 
 youngest children, George -W. P. Custis and Eleanor Custis, 
 and thenceforward they lived as a part of his family. 
 
 Upon reaching manhood, shortly after the death of 
 General Washington, G. W. P. Custis erected the present 
 mansion house, modeling it after the ancient temple of 
 Theseus of Athens. The location plainly shows the wise 
 
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 and cultivated tastes of its owner — upon one of the bluffs 
 on the west shore of the Potomac, near the great highway 
 from Georgetown to Alexandria, the two then great com- 
 mercial cities of the upper Potomac, overlooking the newly- 
 laid-out capital city of an incipient nation. To this classical 
 mansion, in the midst of grand old forest trees and views of 
 entrancing beauty, its founder brought Mary Lee Fitzhugh 
 as bride in 1803, and for more than half a century Arling- 
 ton was the home of a hospitable, wealthy, quiet Southern 
 gentleman farmer, to whose open doors patriots, statesmen, 
 and scholars were ever welcomed by all the pleasant grace 
 and courtesy that refinement and wealth could offer. Here 
 he gathered in those many years all the fruits of such a life 
 — elegant paintings (and he himself was a painter of no 
 mean ability), a library of rare and valuable books, curios, 
 and specimens, and, more valuable than all, innumerable 
 relics of Mount Vernon and George Washington's career. 
 
 Only one child was born and reared in this lovely home, 
 a daughter, Mary, who in 1831 married a young lieutenant 
 in the United States army, Robert E. Lee, a descendant of 
 Richard Lee, a younger son of the Earl of Litchfield, who 
 came to America in 1641 as colonial secretary under Sir 
 William Berkeley, and they thereafter lived until the Civil 
 War in this Arlington home. 
 
 In 1857 Mr. Custis died, devising Arlington to his grand- 
 son, George W. C. Lee, subject to the life use of his parents. 
 
 The story of Lee's refusing the command of the Union 
 army, and casting his abilities with the slave power, is too 
 well known for repeating. He resigned on April 20, 1861, 
 and two days later he and his family left Arlington, as it 
 proved to be, forever. It was soon occupied by the Union 
 troops, and has ever since been under government control. 
 In 1864 it was purchased by the government at a tax sale 
 for $26,100 ; but at the death of Mrs. Lee, in 1873, her son 
 instituted recovery proceedings, which culminated in 1883, 
 after a long litigation, in the government purchasing it for 
 $150,000, and thus acquiring a good title. During the Civil 
 War it was used chiefly as official headquarters, and known 
 to our own regiment as General DeRussey's headquarters, 
 
LIl-:i"r. S. A. GkAXGER 
 
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 or of the Defenses south of the Potomac, and we had a num- 
 ber of men detailed there as guards, clerks, or in similar 
 services. 
 
 In 1864, owing- to the overcrowded condition of the 
 various cemeteries about Washington, it was a perplexing 
 question how to dispose of the more than 8,000 interments. 
 General Meigs, quartermaster of the armies, ordered inter- 
 ments at Arlington, and they began on May 13, 1864, by the 
 burial of a Confederate veteran, L. Reinhardt of the 23d 
 North Carolina Regiment. During the remainder of the 
 war a large number of burials were made, and after its close 
 the remains of those who had been buried upon the battle- 
 fields, or at the forts or hospitals, were removed to Arling- 
 ton, until there are now lying on this sacred soil more than 
 16,000 bodies of men engaged in that great struggle for free- 
 dom, of which 2,111 are "unknown." 
 
 Of this great number of martyrs, the following were 
 members of our own regiment : 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 GRAVE 
 
 NAMES. 
 
 COMPANY. NO. 
 
 John J. Abbott, 
 
 C, . . . . 7,910 
 
 James Bradley, 
 
 A, 
 
 
 
 
 932 
 
 John Fay, 
 
 M, 
 
 
 
 
 10,629 
 
 WiUiam H. Hart, . 
 
 C, 
 
 
 
 
 5.550 
 
 James M. Hayes, 
 
 C, 
 
 
 
 
 5,387 
 
 William B. Leach, 
 
 K, 
 
 
 
 
 6,160 
 
 Charles E. Long, 
 
 E, 
 
 
 
 
 11,194 
 
 Lorenzo K. LeMoine, 
 
 F, 
 
 
 
 
 6,927 
 
 Simeon W. Loud, 
 
 A, 
 
 
 
 
 12,247 
 
 Thomas Mann, 
 
 D, 
 
 
 
 
 901 
 
 Norman Mansfield, . 
 
 L, 
 
 
 
 
 760 
 
 Hiram Mattoon, 
 
 D, 
 
 
 
 
 1,005 
 
 Pascal P. North, 
 
 G, 
 
 
 
 
 5,906 
 
 Lucius B. Palmer, . 
 
 c, 
 
 
 
 
 898 
 
 Albert A. Peck, 
 
 G, 
 
 
 
 
 6,996 
 
 Julius Rogers, 
 
 E, 
 
 
 
 
 7,092 
 
 Caralf Volusen, 
 
 B, 
 
 
 
 
 12,251 
 
 Curtiss Wheeler, 
 
 I, 
 
 
 
 
 1,086 
 
 William White, 
 
 G. 
 
 
 
 
 8,302 
 
 In the words of another : 
 
 "These heroes are dead. They died for liberty — they 
 died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they 
 
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 made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the 
 solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, the em- 
 bracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the 
 clouds, careless alike of sunshine or storm, each in the win- 
 dowless palace of rest. Earth may run red with other wars 
 — they are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of 
 conflict, they found the serenity of death. I have one senti- 
 ment for the living and dead — cheers for the living and 
 tears for the dead." 
 
The following is the list of the members of the Second 
 Heavy Artillery who have deceased since its organization, 
 as reported to the Secretary. 
 
 Those marked * died while in service. 
 
 Officers.— Cols. L. W. Wessells, E. S. Kellogg,* R. S. Mackenzie, 
 James Hubbard, Lieut.-Col. N. Smith, Majors Wm. B. Eils, James 
 Q. Rice.* 
 
 Captains.— F. M. Berry,* E. F. Gold, B. F. Hosford,* E. O. Peck, O. J. 
 Smith, H. E. Tuttle, Luman Wadhams,* George S. WiUiams. 
 
 Lieutenants. — W. Alford, C. F. Anderson, A. Bates, W. W. Birge, 
 
 F. J. Candee,* Wm. H. Cogswell,* F. A. Cook, H. S. Curtiss, J. B. 
 Fenn, H. D. Gaylord, S. A. Granger, J. M. Gregory, C. B. Hatch,* 
 
 G. B. Hemstead,* H. Hubbard,* G. K. Hyde, O. H. Knight,* O. 
 P. Loomis, J. P. McCabe,* Lewis Munger, Wm. McK. Rice, M. 
 H. Sanford, L. Teator, W. L. Twiss. 
 
 Adjutants B. H. Camp. Theodore F. Vaill. 
 
 Assistant Surgeons, Jeremiah W. Phelps, John W. Lawton, Judson 
 
 B. Andrews. 
 Chaplain, Winthrop H. Phelps. 
 Sergeant-Major, E. Goodwin Osborn.* 
 Commissary-Sergeant, Prosper W. Smith 
 Hospital Steward, James J. Averill. 
 
 *Adams, C. Jr. 
 
 Abbott, N. T. 
 
 Aikin, A. A. 
 *Barber, N. B. 
 
 Barker, N. 
 
 Belcher, C. 
 
 Bradley, H. 
 *Brooker, A. J. 
 
 Buell, A. W. 
 *Bunnell, F. M. 
 *Bennett, H. N. 
 
 Benedict, J. 
 *Brashing, F. W. 
 
 Company A. 
 
 *Bradley, A. D. 
 *Bradley, J. 
 
 Bray, M. 
 
 Carter, Charles 
 *Coe, J. E. 
 
 Coe, R. W. 
 
 Cogswell, W. 
 
 Curtiss, R. 
 
 Cashman, T. 
 
 Cogswell, R. 
 *Candee, D. M. 
 
 Elill, R. 
 *Everett, G. 
 
 *Fallen, Stephen 
 
 Gibbs, H. G. 
 *Gardner, J. 
 
 Hempsted, E. S. 
 
 Hotchkiss, H. W. 
 
 Hubbard, J. S. 
 
 Hull, Wm. H. 
 *Hitchcock, O. 
 *Iffland, J. 
 
 Jennings, F. T. 
 *Jones, A. A. 
 
 Jones, S. B. 
 *Lampson, S. 
 
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 *Loud, S. W. 
 *Luddington, L. S. 
 *Minor, H. M. 
 
 Morehouse, L. F. 
 *Morse, A. C. 
 *Mallory, T. 
 *Meeker, B. 
 
 Mintsch, J. L. 
 *Newbury, N. P. 
 
 Osborn, H. C. 
 *Parks, Jos. P. 
 *Parmalee, W. 
 *Parmalee, W. H. 
 
 Adams, A. A. 
 *Ames, R. W. 
 ♦Benedict, S. V. 
 *Best, J. 
 *Bragg, R. W. 
 *Burger, F. 
 *Burton, A. 
 
 Carley, S. 
 *Cane, James 
 
 Cogswell, N. W. 
 *Cook, M. 
 *Coon, J. W. 
 *Davidson, G. C. 
 *Delaney, P. 
 *Dunn, Wm. 
 
 Fanning, H. 
 
 Gibbons, Jas. 
 *Glaveen, D. 
 
 Hall, Curtiss 
 *Hall, Chas. D. 
 
 Hallock, Dwight 
 *Handell, J. 
 
 ♦Abbott, J.J. 
 
 Allen, Avery M. 
 
 Andrews, R. G. 
 *Balcomb, Anson F. 
 
 Balcomb, E. M. 
 * Barnes, H. 
 ♦Bartholomew, C. M. 
 ♦Beach, W. H. 
 
 Bissell, V. R. 
 
 ♦Perkins, E. F. 
 
 Pond, F. 
 ♦Potter, G. W. 
 
 Prindle, J. M. 
 ♦Rathbone, B. H. 
 ♦Ryan, P. 
 
 Sanford, G. T. 
 
 Sanford, I. L. 
 ♦Smith, L. J. 
 
 Smith, W. P. 
 
 Spencer, H. S. 
 ♦Savage, Geo. 
 ♦Scull, Robt. 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Higgins, C. S. 
 ♦Horton, Wm. S. 
 ♦Hyer, Tom 
 * Johnson, C. A. 
 ♦Lacy, D. 
 
 Mansfield, Geo. W. 
 
 Manross, J. 
 
 McGovern, John 
 ♦McGraugh, J. 
 
 McMahon, G. 
 ♦Morris, E. B. 
 ♦Ostrander, A. 
 ♦Ostrander, J. 
 ♦Ostrander, P. 
 
 Page, D. O. 
 
 Parks, Jas. • 
 ♦Rapp, J. T. 
 
 Rogers, A. 
 ♦Scott, E. P. 
 ♦Scoville, W. W. 
 ♦Segur, C. H. 
 
 Sheridan, James 
 
 Company C. 
 ♦Bjoinson, C. 
 ♦Blackman, A. 
 
 Blakeslee, G. P. 
 ♦Boughton, E. B. 
 ♦Bray, W. H. 
 *Brown, G. W. 
 
 Brown, C. E. 
 ♦Burke, Peter 
 ♦Butler, Wm. 
 
 ♦Stillson, A. H. 
 
 Swift, R. A. 
 
 Tompkins, Jackson 
 ♦Tilford, H. T. 
 ♦Watt, Robt. 
 
 Whiting, Seth 
 ♦Wilcox, J. L. 
 ♦Wilson, W. S. 
 ♦Winship, J. 
 
 Williams, H. 
 ♦Wood, R. E. 
 
 ♦Skiff, G. A. 
 *Sparks, W. C. 
 ♦Speed, R. R. 
 ♦Spencer, L. O. 
 ♦Sterry, M. R. 
 ♦Stevens, F. B. 
 
 Stevens, H. 
 ♦Stohl, J. B. 
 *Tanner, H. 
 
 Turner, Chas. 
 ♦Voelker, H. 
 *Volosen, C. 
 
 Whaples, C. O. 
 ♦Wheeler, H. S. 
 ♦White, J. H. 
 ♦Whittman, M. A. 
 ♦Wiessing, H. 
 ♦Winters, H. 
 ♦Wooden, A. 
 
 Young, F. J. 
 
 Cleveland, G. W. 
 ♦Cleveland, Erastus 
 ♦Cone, G. A. 
 
 Deloury, J. 
 
 Durocher. J. 
 ♦Evans, O. D. 
 
 Foster, W. E. 
 *Hart, Wm. H. 
 ♦Hayes, J. M. 
 
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 *Herald, Wm. 
 *Huxley, M. H. 
 
 Ives, H. H. 
 
 Johnson, Harlow 
 
 Johnson, Hezekiah 
 
 Jukes, Jas. 
 *Kellogg, A. G. 
 
 Lampson, F. G.' 
 
 Lynn, J. 
 *Lyman, D. E. 
 *McCarty, T. 
 
 McKee, Wm. E. 
 
 Millard, M. 
 
 *Miner, O. M. 
 
 Miner, A. F. 
 *Norville, W H. 
 *Palmer, L. B. 
 
 Pendleton, T. A. 
 *Pierce, G. 
 
 Reed, Hawley 
 
 Richmond, Seelye 
 * Rogers, J. 
 *Robinson, Wm. T. 
 
 Ruscoe, E. 
 
 Ruscoe, C. 
 *Sanford. A. H. 
 
 *Scoville, A. M. 
 
 Sherry, Joseph 
 *Stewart, John H. 
 
 Thorpe, D. J. 
 *Ure, J. H. 
 *Vaill, H. L. 
 *Wadhams, W. N. 
 *Wadhams, Uri 
 
 Wheeler, Chas. G. 
 *Woodruff, H. M. 
 *Yomig, Milo 
 
 Alfred, A. F. 
 
 Atwood, G. E. 
 *Atwood, A. S. 
 *Barnes, W. L. 
 *Beach, G. L. 
 
 Beach, J. A. 
 *Beecraft, P. 
 *Beebe, R. 
 
 Brown, Saml. 
 
 Bryan, C. L. 
 *Castle, E. W. 
 *Castle, E. J. 
 *Clarke, G E. 
 ♦Cleveland, C. G. 
 *Cooley, H. S. ■ 
 *Comstock, G. 
 •*Conklin, J. H. 
 ♦Converse, E. W. 
 
 Culver, C. 
 
 Curtiss, C. 
 ♦Davenport, D. 
 *Demuth, J. 
 
 Dow, J. S. 
 *Fenn, P. A. 
 
 ♦Apley, S. A. 
 ♦Backus, D. 
 ♦Baldwin, J. R. 
 ♦Barrett, S. 
 Beach, E. 
 ♦Blake, M. 
 ♦Bohan, C. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 ♦Filley, B. 
 ♦Fox, W. M. 
 
 Geer, N. H. 
 
 Glazier, T. C. 
 
 Golde, P. H. 
 ♦Goodwin, G. H. S. 
 ♦Grieder, J. 
 ♦Guernsey, C. E. 
 ♦Hansen, C. D. 
 
 Harrison, Wm. H. 
 
 Hawley, F. 
 ♦Holt, G. H. 
 ♦Hopson, E. C. 
 ♦Hubbard, F. W. 
 
 Hunter, S. McG. 
 
 Johnson, W. W. 
 
 Keith, F. R. 
 ♦Lewis, E. B. 
 
 Lindley, Wm. 
 
 Lynch, H. 
 ♦Mann, T. 
 ♦Mattoon, H. 
 ♦Miller, H. W. 
 
 Morse, J. J. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 ♦Bough ton, J. H. 
 
 Canfield, E. R. 
 ♦Carbury, B. 
 
 Christina, J. 
 ♦Comins, A. 
 ♦Cook, John 
 ♦Daniels, F. W. 
 
 Mosley, J. M. 
 ♦Murphy, J. 
 
 Munson, R. W. 
 
 Patchen, F. 
 ♦Perkins, H. G. 
 
 Pond, Henry 
 ♦Pritchard, J. H. 
 ♦Richardson, W. W. 
 ♦Slater, J. 
 ♦Smith, S. B. 
 ♦Stone, W. 
 ♦Straun, J. 
 
 Taylor, E, B. 
 *Tolles, B. H. 
 
 Tolles, H. 
 
 Tuite, A. J. 
 ♦Van Allen, D. 
 ♦Wadsworth, J. J. 
 ♦Warner, C. R. 
 ♦Webster, F. B. 
 
 Weston, Wm. 
 
 Wooster, T. D. 
 ♦Wooster, D. B. 
 ♦Wright, W. 
 
 ♦Donahue, M. 
 ♦Downs, L. 
 
 Durand, D. 
 *Evarts, J. P. 
 ♦Ferris, M. 
 
 Fitch, O. C. 
 ♦Fitzgerald, M. 
 
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 *Gibbs, B. 
 
 Gibbs, Geo. N. 
 
 Gingell, R. C. 
 *Green, J. A. 
 *Green, M. 
 *Green, S J. 
 
 Hain, A. 
 *Hart, W. 
 *Hubbard, W. R. 
 *Hull, A. J. 
 *Humiston, A. 
 *Hurlbut, G. W. 
 *Hurlbut, W. S. 
 
 Jackman, J. 
 *Kaine, P. 
 
 Keegan, P. 
 *Kelley, Wm. 
 
 *Alford, A. C. 
 *Andrus, G. N. 
 
 Bancroft, E. L. 
 *Barrett, A. E. 
 *Beckwith, A. 
 *Benedict, H. D. 
 
 Bierce, A. 
 *Busby, J. 
 *Cahil, R. 
 
 Cannon, T. B. 
 *Colt, W. H. 
 
 Cruess, J. 
 
 Dailey, H. G. 
 
 Day, M. H. 
 
 Dayton, E. E. 
 *Doherty, E. 
 
 Dowd, A. M. 
 *Eggleston, H. N. 
 *Eggleston, P. 
 *Emmons, P. 
 *Ford, H. 
 *Gibbs, S. E. 
 
 Baldwin, G. W. 
 *Bard, R. 
 Bentley, C. H. 
 Bierce, F. B. 
 BoUes, A. J. 
 
 Kent, H. C. 
 *Knapp, D. B. 
 *Long, C. 
 
 Maloy, J. 
 *Maltbie, E. 
 *Martin, W. 
 *McDonough, J. 
 *McDonald, D. 
 *Mooney, J. 
 *Painter, F. D. 
 *Pendleton, G. H. 
 *Perkins, R. H. 
 *Preston, J. 
 
 Reicker, E. 
 *Rexford, H. A. 
 
 Robbins, T. 
 *Robinson, J. 
 
 Company F. 
 *Griswold, C. A. 
 *Hall, J. E. 
 
 Hawley, B. O. 
 *Hayward, S G. 
 *Henderson, W. G. 
 
 Hotchkiss, J. (). 
 
 Kelley, John 
 
 Kelley, T. F. 
 
 Kirkham, G. M. 
 *Lemoine, L. K. 
 
 Lent, J. T. 
 *Light, L. 
 
 Marsh, J. M. 
 
 McGrath, P. 
 
 McCormick, A. 
 
 McMahon, Thos. 
 
 McMahon, M., 2d 
 
 McNary, G. T. 
 
 Merrill, J. L. 
 *Merrill, C. H. 
 
 Merrill, H. C. 
 
 Mitchell, C. H. 
 
 Company G. 
 *Bonney, H. E. 
 *Bradley, J. H. 
 
 Buxton, D. 
 
 Butler, F. F. 
 
 Chase, J. 
 
 * Rogers, J. 
 
 Rowe, W. H. 
 
 Rowe, E. B. 
 *Rowe, E. E. 
 
 Rugg, E. 
 
 Sage, E. B. 
 
 Scully, J. 
 
 Simpson, J. 
 *Stanley, C H. 
 *Starks, D. S. 
 *Tatro, G. A. 
 *Teeter, J. M. 
 
 Toole, J. J. 
 
 White, W. B. 
 
 Woodford, J. 
 
 Young, A. B. 
 
 Mitchell, E. R. 
 
 Mitchell, O. M. 
 
 Munger, M. E. 
 
 Munson, Geo. 
 
 Murphy, B. T. 
 
 Nul, J. 
 *0'Callaghan, T. 
 
 Rice, R. S. 
 *Riley, P. 
 
 Root, R. 
 
 Rust, N. M. 
 *Simmons, G 
 
 St. John, H. D. 
 * Thompson, R. S. 
 
 Turner, J. 
 
 Tuttle, C. 
 *Vandeusen, H. 
 
 Wadsworth, E. 
 
 Weeks, J. C. 
 
 Wells, E. 
 
 *Clark, H. 
 *Clinton, G. 
 *Cole, P. L. 
 
 Corban, J. B. 
 
 Dean, M. E. 
 
STEPHEN MASLEN 
 
 MONUMENTAL WORKS 
 
 Builder of the 2d Heavy 
 Artillery, 8th, Hth, 
 1 2th, 5th, and 20th 
 Conn. Vol. Regiments' 
 Monuments and many 
 others v*t -J* •-•« -J* 
 
 
 Statuary 
 marble 
 Granite 
 Bronze 
 
 
 Designs and Estimates 
 furnished for all first- 
 class work. v< vJ« v-** 
 
 Correspondence solic- 
 ited. ^ -^ -J* ^ 
 
 40 High Street, near Asylum Street 
 HARTFORD, CONN. 
 
33 
 
 Delaney, P. 
 
 Grover, Eli 
 *Hamblin, J. W. 
 
 Hawver. J. 
 *Herman, C. C. 
 
 Hinman, C. C. 
 
 Hotchkiss, Z. D. 
 
 Hotchkiss, Dwight 
 
 Hoxley, H. D. ^ 
 *Hubbell, M. 
 *Ingersol, C. 
 
 Janes, G. L. 
 
 Jewett, N. H. 
 
 Killmer, D. 
 
 Kimball, D. 
 
 *Kinney, B. 
 *Lapham, J. 
 *North, P. P. 
 
 Northrop, R. D. 
 *Page, G. W. 
 *Palmer, J. M. 
 *Payne, J. B. 
 *Peck, H. 
 *Peck, A. A. 
 *Prout, S. 
 *Reed, C. J. 
 *Robinson, A. 
 *Rouse, L. -G. 
 *Sa\vyer, L. J. 
 
 Sherman, T. 
 
 *Sickmund, H. C. 
 *Slover, W. A. 
 *Soule, E. 
 ^"Stanley, J. 
 *Stone, M. H. 
 *Studley, D. B. 
 *Troy, P. 
 
 Tully, J. 
 *Vanburen, J. H. 
 
 Waldron, L. 
 *Warner, C. L. 
 * Water man, W. G. 
 *Watrous, H. H. 
 *White, W. 
 *Williams, A. 
 
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 Andrew, N. W. 
 
 Bailey, A. E. 
 *Barnes, T. A. 
 
 Beeman, R. 
 
 Beeman, J. A. 
 *Bradley, I. S. 
 *Bridge, H. 
 
 Brinell, C. 
 
 Buckingham, I. C. 
 
 Buckingham, O. H. 
 
 Cable, A. 
 *Calhoun, H. A. 
 *Clark, S. 
 *Uains, W. H. 
 
 Disbrow, D. B. 
 
 Evitts, O. B. 
 
 *Barnes, H. A. 
 *Barne3'. C. 
 *Bell, E. 
 *Bennett, C. 
 
 Botsford, C. 
 
 Bradley, G. C. 
 *Brady, P. 
 *Briggs, I. 
 
 Carney, S. 
 *Cook, A. 
 *Cramer, D. 
 *Curnal, J. 
 5 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Harrington, J. 
 
 Harris, J. 
 
 Isleton, C. 
 
 Jackson, C. W. 
 *Johnson, J. 
 
 Keeler, W. 
 
 Logan, F. J. 
 *Loveridge, J. R. 
 *Lynch, P. 
 
 Mallett, H. 
 
 Marsh, A. N. 
 *Mead, E. 
 *Merwin, G. R. 
 
 Morehouse, H. S. 
 *Payne, D. 
 *Pease, H. L. 
 
 Company I. 
 
 DeForest, C. P. 
 *Elwell, T. 
 *Ferris, S. B. 
 *Fitzgerald, W. 
 *Flushman, C. F. 
 
 Fox, C. 
 *Fox, H. H. 
 *Galpin, A. D. 
 *Goebel, C. 
 *Hard, H. F. 
 
 Hard, F. R. 
 
 Hayes, S. D. 
 
 Piatt, S. C. 
 
 Potter, G. H. 
 *Reed, H. A. 
 
 Rogers, J. 
 
 Sanford, H. N. 
 
 Sherwood, R. H. 
 
 Sterling, H. 
 *St.John, L. 
 *Straight, H. C. 
 *Warner, W. p. 
 
 Warner, T. F. 
 
 Whitehead, B. 
 
 Wigglesworth, M. L. 
 
 Williams, B. 
 
 Hutchinson, J. 
 *Judson, G. E. 
 *Kane, F. F. 
 
 Leach, D. E. 
 *Lines, M. 
 
 Lock wood, J. 
 *Lobdel, S. 
 *Lockhn, G. W. 
 *Lounsbury, B. 
 
 Lucas, A. A. 
 
 Mallory, S. M. 
 
 McDavit, J. 
 
34 
 
 McLaughlin, J. 
 
 Minor, F. M. 
 
 Miller, J. 
 *Northrop, J. K. 
 
 Olmsted, S. 
 *Orton, W. J. 
 *Polley, J. C. 
 
 Potter, Bela 
 
 *Andrus, F. 
 *Andrus, N. 
 *Bald\vin, I. 
 
 Banker, H. 
 *Barth, A. 
 * Birch, J. 
 
 Branan, J. 
 ♦Bristol, H. B. 
 
 Burns, J. H. 
 
 Button, L. 
 *Camp, J. E. 
 *Colby, H. 
 
 Colby, G. R. 
 *Cook, W. 
 *Cromney, O. 
 *Do\vns, A. 
 
 Farrell, P. 
 *Ferris, C. B. 
 *Gallagher. P. 
 *Glover, W. T. 
 
 Griffin, E. B. 
 ♦Harrington, G. W 
 *Haveland, C. 
 
 *Berg, A. 
 
 Blackman, G. 
 *Butler, P. 
 
 Cady, Jesse 
 *Davenpoi-t, C. 
 *Day, Wm. 
 *Dixon, Wm. 
 ♦Foster, T. B. 
 
 ♦Bergen, Wm. 
 ♦Case, J. H. 
 ♦Colburn, T. 
 
 Cummings, S. 
 
 Doyle, T. 
 
 Feneran, P. 
 
 Ragan, J. 
 
 ♦Sidney, J. 
 
 Shaw, T. 
 
 Smith, M. D. 
 
 Thomas, I. 
 ♦Thomas, H. S. 
 ♦Thomas, C. L. 
 
 Tiernay, A. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 Herbert, T. 
 
 '^Hickey, E. 
 ♦Hipwell, J. H. R. 
 ♦Hoyt, G. A. 
 ♦Hyatt, H. H. 
 ♦Ide, L. 
 ♦Jackson, A. 
 
 Jacus, L. N. 
 ♦Johnson, C. A. 
 ♦June, A. 
 ♦Kasson, A. D. 
 ♦Kennedy, P. 
 
 Knapp, G. H. 
 ♦Lake, D. D. 
 ♦Law, S. A. 
 ♦Leach, W. B. 
 
 Lock wood, A. 
 
 Ludford, J. A. 
 
 Maloney, R. L. 
 ♦McBurney, G. H. 
 ♦Miner, A. J. 
 
 Monroe, E. 
 
 Munson, J. 
 
 Company L. 
 ♦Grover, C. 
 
 Hall, W. 
 ♦Hooker, F. 
 ^.Hubbell, H. A. 
 ♦Ives, A. L. 
 ♦Mansfield, N. 
 ♦Martin, J. 
 *Malloy, Wm. 
 
 Company M. 
 
 Hayden, P. 
 ♦Keegan, P. 
 
 Little, P. 
 ♦Osbone, S. S. 
 
 Scott, A. W. 
 ♦Tubbs, E. S. 
 
 W^alsh, T. F. 
 
 White, J. S. 
 
 Williams, N. B. 
 
 Winton, J. B. 
 ♦Woodruff, A. 
 ♦Wheeler, T. 
 
 Wheeler, C. 
 
 ♦Norton, E. 
 
 O'Connor, J. 
 
 Palmer, A. B. 
 
 Parmalee, W. R. 
 ♦Perkins, A. N. 
 
 Pettes, A. 
 
 Piatt, O. P. 
 ♦Reed, C. 
 ♦Russell, C. H. 
 ♦Ryan, L. 
 
 Sanford, T. O. 
 
 Slattery, J. 
 ♦Sothergill, R. 
 
 Taylor, G. E. 
 
 Tolles, A. B. 
 
 Tompkins, T. P. 
 ♦Warner, J. 
 ♦Watson, W. S. 
 
 Wedge, F. 
 
 Wedge, M. C. 
 ♦Wentworth, J. 
 
 Wheeler, W. W. 
 
 ♦Morton, Wm. 
 
 Parker, G. 
 *Pollard, J. 
 ♦Scranton, S. N. 
 
 Slade, F. 
 
 Strickland, J. S. 
 ♦Wood, H. B. 
 
 ♦Thomas, J. 
 ♦Fay, J. 
 *Joseph, A. 
 ♦Morris, L. L. 
 
 Lounsbury, A. J. 
 
 Corliss, S. W. 
 
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