Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-24
A PATRIOTIC WORK.

The New Record of Connecticut Men i'm the War of the Rebellton-An
 Important and Laborious Work
 COmpIeted-The Prefatory-Sketches
 of the Various Commands.
 The great work begun in 1886 of preparing a new and revised record of Connecticut men who did service in the war for the Union has been pushed with energy, and the volume is now complete and ready for distribution. The general work of supervision has been in charge of Colonel George M. White, himself an old soldier. The result is in every way satisfactory, giving Connecticut catalogue of it's Union volunteers which is not sur passed in thoroughness and accuracy by that of any other State in the Union. The pre- ceding catalogue was mass of errors. When the present work was begun it was found that more than ten thousand indivi- dual records, as disclosed by the official mus ter rolls, were incomplete or contradictory. To complete these records it was necessary to secure access to the records of the adju- tant generals office at Washington, 8 privi- 1ege which had never heretofore been grant ed, but which was secured by the combined efforts of Governor Harrison and Senators Platt and Hawley, in conjunction with Ad- jutant-General Smith. To secure certified copies of these records required at times the services of as many as thirty regular depart single case to require search through the various divisions of the department of the adiutant-general, thS surgeon-general, the second, third and fourth auditors, and the navy department.
 After speaking of the numerous inaccura- cies of the old catalogue, and its incomplete ness, the report says:
 iu Tho official catalogue of the State as 'deserter pre- sents undeniable proof that the son in question in Connecticut regiment, was then captured by the enemy while lying helpless from disease il a ern prison pen, and is most gladly given in securing an announcement of the sons record at @ m see she the many copies extant of the official cataio ue or howevtr, corrected in cases where change of record has been made. and the fact communicated to the office by the War department of the United
 The catalogue is also defective in that it contains record of enlistnents service of Connecticut volunteers in the regular army during the war, CT of service in the invalid corps after the transfer thereto.
 An interesting feature of a revision would be the addition of the record of service of citizens of our war with Great Britain in 1872 and the Mexican war, which would complete the war history of the State Frequent calls made upon this office for information the service of men in the berore mentioned wars, which is required in the settle ment of claims against the general government, but being in possession of the records this office is b by gnF the oS 5 records. This office being the military heauquar- ters of the state claimants naturally expect that Information of this character will be readily fur nished from it's records"
 The catalogue of each regiment is preceded by historical sketch written by come mem- Der of the command, the correctness of which is not guaranteed, except by the veri6cation of dates. In addition to the regular catalogue of volOn teara for the army thera also a 1ist of Connecticut men who served in tho regi- ments of other States, in the regular army, and in the navy and in part the marine corps. Colonel Whites preface explains that the officials in charge of records at the ma- rine barracks at Washington made such ex- orbitant charges for the compensation of the clerical work necessary that on receipt of the first installment of copied records it was not deemed advisable to prosecute the work fur ther.
 Major E. K. Winship of the surgeon-gene- 1al's office at Washington, who was entrust- ed with the general supervision of the clerical work in the department, is given high praise for the systemization of the work. A feature of the work is the addition of a list of over 400 records of wounds obtained from the pension office at Washington, but not speci- fled on the muster rolls, and which could have been obtained in no other manner. Following is the list of contributors of regimental histories:
 First Connecticut volunteers Ghree months.) by Colonel Ge .rge g. BurpDham; seGend da Ghree hree monihs,} compiled from records; First cavalry
 sh5es yearsR Breyst Ersstus ThsToS sssGnd months9, Captain Thomas S Giibert; First First Heavy slsr Hsnls Hhree yearsl, Captain James N Zoe; Fifth geant Aeaa Charles 'n K cadWe; Seventh Seventh ehree s yssar eaptosin respont Eghh Esysnt es Pss 5Sa Warren; Twelfth (three yearsl, General L. A. Dick @ Fourt enh s hree years sesTs, l Chaplain asnFy stey ensi Fifteenth lthree years) Colonel George M B F BlakesIee; seventeenth Ghree yesrs5 srevet Brigadier General William H.; Noble; Eight iam fes C. Ely; sA Twentieth s6rse yssrs5. Lieu tenant Ceeil A. Bqrsigh; Twenty first three sss5ada ssssSnd (nias ''-' mopt6s5, Captain John X. paHs H THns ssns Lieutenant Augustus H. Conklin; Twenty fifth s1 1ne moStSs captain Lorsn Gsap Twenty seventh (nine months), General Frank D. sooGs monthsl, the Rev. tCaptainl Henry G. Murshall; teth a Volanteer 3nise Snths piled from records.
 From the valuable table of casualties it ap- pears that of the soldiers of this State there were: Killed, 1,240; missing, probably kill ed ,l07; accidentally killed, 112; fatally wounded, TAI; wounded, ,506; accidentally wounded, 126; captured, 4, ,075; died in prison, 6S9; died of disease, 2,S01; discharged for disability, 1, S24; unaccounted for on muster out, 352; total casualties, 20,57S. It is an oversight that there seems to be nowhere 8 table giving the different organizations, the number of men in each and the total number who represented the State in the war. Prob ably this will be found in the second volume, which will contain the record of the Revolu- tion and the succeeding wars down to 1861.
 The value of the work is enhanced by full index of 100 pages, of four columns each, by which it is possible to find any desired name at glance.
 Deadly Dlpsheria.
 Yesterdays Bridgeport Farmer says: Ma bel, the nineteen year old daughter of Robert L. Munigle residing on Hancock avenue, died this morning On Tuesday Mr. Muni- gle's son John, aged seventeen, died of the worst form of diptheria. At that time the daughter was very low with the disease and her death has been momentarily expected ever since. Mir. James Munigle, a re- lative, who lives but few doors distant on Hancock avenue has been assisting in the care of the sick ones, and is now very low with the disease Another member of the family was also taken ill this morning and as there are nine children in this family the contagion is likely to spread still further.
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