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Title: The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Croffut, W(illiam) A(ugustus), 1835- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Connecticut -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Connecticut Connecticut -- Militia
Publisher: New York, L. Bill
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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. The regular picket detail of the regiment during thisperiod amounted to about one-third its duty men, and wasvery severe ; the tours being of three days each. Capt.Ell)ridi>;e Colburn of Ansouia went on detached service toOhio, and, on returning, died very suddenly of malignanterysipelas. He had been with the command since its firstorganization as a battalion, and had perhaps done as muchhard service as any officer in the regiment. He was greatlylamented. The regiment, since its growth from a battalion, was for-tunate in having a chaplain, and doubly fortunate in thefact that the chaplain was Rev. Theodore J. Holmes. Mr.Holmes had left a thriving parish, — the church of EastHartford, where he was much esteemed, — and enlisted inthe army as a private soldier. He was appointed chaplainof the First Cavalry. His piety was of a cheerful, hopeftd,sunny sort; and he went with the regiment in its most l\iTiKi:Tie.d by Le+Tard Bill 668 CONNECTICUT DUEING THE REBELLION. *Ii/ t fi f>
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Iuhhshed by L..*;aTd BiU- GENERAL GRANT IN COMMAND. 569 perilous service, calling on the men to crush the Slave-holders Rebellion, as he would have called them to do anygodly work. He was always helpful, — one of those chap-lains, who, like Jacob Eaton, Hiram Eddy, and Henry ClayTrumbull, were never •• in the way. About June 1, Lieut. Edward W. Whitaker was trans-ferred from the Connecticut squadron in the New-YorkHarris Light Cavalry,- and made captain in the First Con-necticut. He had borne an honorable part in the three-months-service as a corporal in Hawleys company, and then,enlisting in the Connecticut squadron, had served with hiscompany in all the prominent cavalry raids of 1862 and1863. In June, 1863, he was made first lieutenant forgallantry at Brandy Station, wdiere his brother, Lieut. DanielWhitaker, was killed leadins; a charo-e. He was detailed asan aide on Kilpatriclvs staff, and went on the great raid inApril, 1864, into the very fortifications of Richmond. As th

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