The Press., 1889-01-31


 the wagon drove off. Foote said afterward, tg didn't know but he would blow my Brains out, but didn't mean he should think we$were sneaks.
 "The poor fellows leg had to be ampu- lated and, although he was commissioned B lieutenant for hls gallantry, he was never able to be mustered in, nor did he recover strength to survive the war but few years, dying in 1S69"
 Alter Foote was wounded, the state flag was picked up by Private William B. Hincks Afterwards major) and Captain Doten, both of Bridgeport, and by them brought safely off the field.
 At Charlottesville Sergeant Samuel Webster, while carrying the national flag, was wounded in the wrist, and afterwards transferred to the Invalid Corps. At Mor- tons Ford battle battle, in 1864, Sergeant Armory Allen of Hartford, while carrying the national flag, and Corporal Chadwick of Lyme, of the color-guard, were killed in g charge upon the enemy across the Rapi- dan. Corporal John Hirst of Rockville picked up the flag as Allen fell, and bore it the rest of the day. At the battle of Hatcher's Run, Henry Hospodsky of Rock vile, of the color guard, was wounded.
 Of the battle of the Wilderness, in 1864, Major Hincks writes :-
 "On the morning of the second days fight the brigade to which the 14th be- longed drove back the rebel outposts for upwards of half mile. It being almost to hear an order in the horrible din, the adjutant took the color-bearer by the shoulder, and, pointing to the trunk of a fallen tree, shouted for him to kneel by it. Many officers and men of the 14th then rallied around the colors, together with handful of men from the other reg imets, other members of the 14th extend ing the line by deploying as skirmishers, and fighting from behind trees, Indian fashion. Corporal Charles w. Norton of Berlin was severely wounded at this time, while carrying the flag. Later in the day, during an attack by Longstreet's corps, Corporal Henry K. Lyon of New London, @ brave soldier who carried the national flag, was mortally wounded: Handing the flag to Lieutenant Colonel Moore, the dying my best {! Colonel Moore gave it to John Hirst of Rockville. The regiment at this time was almost surrounded, and in danger of being captured, but Sergeant Ilirst brought the flag safely from the field, and carried it from that time through every battle until the close of the war;"
 Corporal John Wolfe of Waterbury, a member of the color-guard, was wounded in this engagement, and subsequently at the battle of Ream's Station.
 At the battle of Gettysburg, the 14th held one of the most important positions ill the line of the Second Corps, on which line the rebel charge spent itself in vain. In this battle the 14th charged upon the en- emy and captured the colors belonging to the 14th Tennessee, 1st Tennessee, 18th North Carolina, and 4th Virginia, besides capturing many prisoners. At the close of the war, the flag was carried, amid the plaudits of thousands, before the president, at the grand review in Washington :; thence it was borne back to old Connecticut, to be deposited in its final resting place at the capitol
 FLAG OF THE SIXTEENTH REGIMENT CONNEC-
 TICUT VOLUNTEERS.
 The 16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment was thrown into the hottest of the battle at Antietam, brave but undisciplined and undrilled body of men, but twenty days from home. The regiment came out of this battle with loss of two hundred and thirty eight in killed, wounded, and miss ing. Subsequently it followed the fortunes of the Army of the Potomac, and saw ser vice at Fredericksburg under Burnside, and participated in other engagements, finally being ordered to Plymouth, N. c. Plymouth was fortified post defended | by line of earthworks and by fleet of Union gun. boats anchored in the river. Sunday evening, April IF, 1864, the picket line of the regiment was driven in by the rebels, and this attack was followed by a heavy artillery fire and an unsuccessful assault upon the earthworks. During the night the rebels brought their troops into position, and the light of morning showed they had completely invested the place troops consisted all told of only sixteen hundred men fit for duty. This force was surrounded by three brigades> of rebel in. fantry-Hoke's, Ransom's and Kemper's - sixteen regiments in all, with eleven bat teries of field artillery and two companies of cavalry, the entire force amounting to over thirteen thousand men, the choicest troops of Lees army. They were aided by the rebel ram Albemarle, which drove of and sunk the fleet of wooden gun boats in the river and poured destructive fire into the Union camps. For three days the federal troops defended the garrison with the utmost gallantry, but one redoubt after another was carried by the rebels, until on Wednesday morning, April 20, it was evi dent that the Unlon troops could hold out but few hours longer. All demands fol surrender had thus far been met with TO fusal. After the last flag of truce from the eneiny had been returned to their lines bearing refusal to surrender, tremen dous Ire of musketry and artillery was opened on the Union line; the rebels fair ly swarmed over the last line of breast
 works, and poured into the Union camps with the confidence of victory near at hand At an angle ill the breastworks they cap
 tured portion of the artillery and turned the guns on the Union forces, by this aci cutting the 18th Connecticut in two, par of the men, with the color-guard, being ol one side, and part, with some of the tielt
 officers, on the other. At this juncture
 with every hope of escape destroyed, sur
 rounded by nearly ten times their number Lieutenant Colonel Burnham shouted tt
 the color-guard: "Strip the flags from
 their staffs and bring them here." To teal each flag from its staff was the work of {
 moment; but who should carry them across a field five hundred feet. through that mer
 ciless hail of grape and canister It re
 quired brave men, and they were not want
 ing. Color-Sergeant Francis Latimer tool the national color, Color Corporal Ira E the state flag, and, crossing the most ex
 posed part of the field, safely delivered them to Colonel Burnham Corporal Forbe