Litchfield enquirer., 1864-06-02
The list Conn. Heavy Artillery.


 Heavy Artillery, who had faithfully served out she time of their enlistment, were last week summarily discharged and mustered out of ser. vice at Bermuda Hundred, Va, with no nav and no provision for their return home. In one way and smother they obtsined transportation and two hundred and forty of them reached Hartford, where the Regiment was mustered on Friday last, completely worn out, huner, ana penniless. Some of these men belonged ID Lltchheld County; all have served their 'nree years uneomplainingly and upgrudsinelv ana they very justly, as it seems to us, com. plasa or the treatment they have received at 'ae hands of their superior officers.
 While iH New York, on their way home. the discharged soldiers adopted the following state. msas' which was signed by nearly every one of 'a'ir number, and which they have.requested 'ne State papers to publish. We trust the matter will receive the prompt attention of the proper authorities.
 "AhAsAs, on the 21st inst, e repim.n,s, ..a.~ was published to the 1st Conn Haan, 1.uyr S'.!, x;;y.' y' couehsd m the following language. . ' to o.d.. ohdsAD%suAaTlsss, % 1sr CONN. ARTILLERY, 'st "At tb;e ao, .;n': So. -, May 21st, 1864.
 like onr. s.a ..me when Heavy Artillery soldiers klehmond, it is matter of great rean sasse .. oI ~ many men gre about to leave this rea;n,an, Go, csU one appreciates this more than the Ma;or. Tsuelsi commanding, aad he earnestly hcna. ,nat Inc men win stand by their colors S n9pes nke vsl1ans New York Battery. af tSs sha hat, y os pun Run, march to the rear to tbe sormS as tne enemy'e cannon. To show how mu.h ;n m ss.nss' ne IS in this appeal, he offers in add;. tv n.;J ;J ;ae q; regular pay and allowance boun- :;ee San 1n ~ asvanee Of $2O for two months ger. Ncs, SSo Tor three months service .nS .I.t. se. publish general order thankins saab "nb a.So a 70 seef Dy name for the patriotic aacr;s sn 'v,l. Sosenienee %', Tor the good of the countrw " Ths s Nel' commanding we'll knows that thrso vaa rs rs sxo no bounty was necessary to ;nduo. M tL;s regiment to light for the Constitut;on .nd 'u.o .hs LsMs, ana nc sincerely trusts tbot snch .a'I .I1 ot honor as this General Order alike o or.dIt ;,, sIi1 so state to regiment and to ;nG;v;dua1. s.. contain the whole three hundred and .' sa.' ''A'e names. By Order of '-'' wv fs;.,.S Coz. ABBOTT" loignsd) R. P. Larned, 1st Lieut.. and Adj. .;. uu wnereas, the iie is given to the insinua. On sIa' nessy artillery soldiers are specially more than half our regiment w.s ssrS;nr ns' .. anIentry, and that whole division of heavy !I !1Isunery is acting as infantry in the Army oi sne fotomac; and whereas the poyernment has neo tnree years notice of the expiration of our term of service. and amply provided for the sxigeney and whereas, with the additional bounty onered us, our pay would then ayara ra zen cellars per month, below that of the green. sst seeru't; ana whereas on the 23d inst, H wnea . assembled at headquarters to be muster ca out' speech was made to us bv Lieul. Col White. alike ss ridiculous in its claims as if was insulting in it's spirit, of which we have no report. but which was to the effect that we MeFs mot men but eovdrds 5" and whereas our isme % regiment heretofore untarnishea hv tae siightest whisper of reproacb. ia for the tune threatened by the teHgue of slander. md vnereas, we firmly believe that we have taken no s1sP 0ut what our inmost consciences ap- Provs' end what every reasonable miad in the must approve, therefore bs 1t
 Rssslvsd, by the three hundred and forty n,ae nsn, returning from the 1st Connecticut Artillery. ty-six months of service, would also fail to appreciate thirty-eight or thirty-nine months,
 
 would attempt to disgrace us for returning to our homes and friends, from whom we have been absent for three long years, as miserable ingrates, and worthy of our deepest and dheartiest contempt.
 2. That we are content to submit to the public opinion of our State, which of the two 10 most to be honored, the men who like good soldiers bsre the insulting speech in silence, or the man who insultsd them; the men who only the last week lay in the trenches exposed to the shot and shell of tho rebellious foe, or the man who twice in one day moved hia keadquarters "to the rear like Varian's N. Y. Battery, at the battle of Bull Run to the sound of the ensmy's eaunen."
 @8. Resolved that it appears to US exceed iugly cool, for Gel. Abbott to make an appeal of any kind to us. when we consider that he has spared no pains to place over us military aristosraey, subjsctine us to every variety of petty annoyance, to show his own and take avsy our manhood, subjseting men to inhuman and illegal punishments for appealing to him for justice, disgraoing others simply for attempting to obtain commissions in colored regiments h0norably discharging one of his pet officers, guilty of rebbing the. regimental mail of soldiers bounties; finally, about May 4th. ordering his ''heavy artillery men," who Aaa not re-enlisted, into the ditch for the re- p~auuer VI tnelr term or service, thus placing us on level with prisoners under sentence of aeours marshai, and finally capping the climax, by leaving us to the tender mercies of proyosi marshsls, turning us loose on the world with cut pay, without officers, without transporta- sisn, without rations, and without our colors
 1. That we consider talk about ..patrioti, sAesiAee" and sighting for the Constitution and its Laws," comes with an exceeding il grace, when we consider that he is entirel, incapable of oomprshsnding such ideas, ant that he is notoriously and violently copper head in his sentiments and in his oppositio, to the administration of the government.
 That As we understand the affair wa mfsrspressnted to Major-Gen. Butler, VI snenk hin for his appreciation of our services eng ws tender our thanks to the brave officer ano men of the Army of the Virginia, an, ssPseisny to those of our own regiment, that
 yp. tfom the hangers-on about rsgimsnts rq.ss'sFs, NO heard not one word o thst KY. = L su' thousand of commendation
 F 1 nss,s wS gre partisularly grateful to Capt H =. ..0son .. Of the Eubsistenoe Departmsnt I sns prompt and energetic msuuer in vhia] sI:Ms1 Issas1 ua transportation from Rermud,
 suInR so baltimore to Major Gen WaIlac the Middle Department: to sh. psanss ps.ao
 aarshat sf Baltimore, and Mr n. s. .osos insendent ot the Soldiers Rest in that fsa nlso. shat without the usual red tape formal;s;es eaSs Tere provided for ina % sson as nos.;h,