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Title: The County Regiment
A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer
Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer
Infantry, in the Civil War

Author: Dudley Landon Vaill

Release Date: February 2, 2009 [EBook #27969]

Language: English

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THE COUNTY REGIMENT

[Illustration: Governor Buckingham]

THE

COUNTY REGIMENT

A SKETCH

OF THE SECOND REGIMENT OF
CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER HEAVY ARTILLERY,
ORIGINALLY THE NINETEENTH VOLUNTEER
INFANTRY, IN THE CIVIL WAR

BY

DUDLEY LANDON VAILL

LITCHFIELD COUNTY
UNIVERSITY CLUB
MCMVIII

Copyright, 1908, by
DUDLEY L. VAILL

PAR AVANCE

This volume is one of a series published under the auspices of the
Litchfield County University Club, and in accordance with a
proposition made to the club by one of its members, Mr. Carl Stoeckel,
of Norfolk, Connecticut.

HOWARD WILLISTON CARTER,
Secretary.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Governor Buckingham _Frontispiece_

Rev. Hiram Eddy _facing page_ 7

Presentation of Colors, September 10th, 1862 " 10

The first encampment in Virginia " 14

Fort Ellsworth, near Alexandria, May, 1863 " 19

In the Defences. Guard mount " 23

General Sedgwick " 26

The first battle " 35

Colonel Wessells " 47

Colonel Kellogg " 61

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