Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-07-03

carrying the Boston Light artillery on open
cars to the defense of Washington.
No such sight on the Sabbath was ever
seen before in North Haven. All that day
the throb of the drums beating upon New
Haven green came up on the south wind,
and the whole wide land quivered with the
unrest of war.
Among those who watched the hurry
ing regiments go by were two youths, sons
of farmers, slender, pale-faced and quiet.
No one dreamed of them as possible SOL
diers, and yet four weeks later, May %,
1861, Walstein Goodyear and Leverett
A. Rogers enlisted in the First Connecticut
Heavy artillery for three years of the war.
These lads were the first resident North
Haven boys to enlist in the war of the re-
bellion. Henry F. Cowles (also native
born but then living in Norwich, Conn.
had preceded them two weeks in the Sec
ond Connecticut.
Joseph o. Blair and John Mccormick
next followed in the Fifth Connecticut in
July. Luzerne S. Barnes and Alfred
Howarth, in the Sixth Connecticut in Sep
TENDER. Theodore Bradley, F. WILDER
Goodyear, James Z. Smith and Frederick
g. Eaton in the Seventh Connecticut, also
in September. Harry S. HoadIey, Marcus
A. Jacobs, E. D. S. Goodyear, Oliver T..
Smith and Edward L. Goodyear in the
Tenth Connecticut in October Seth B.
Bassett, julius Blakeslee and Charles w.
Jacobs in the First Connecticut Heavy ar
tillery in March, 1862.
The enlistments of these men had been
made without pressure, without bounty
and after due elaboration.
The people lost no time in 1851 in fall
ing into line as lovers of the union. The
first flag raised was on April "a, 1861, at
the junction of the highways fronting Den
stration. Three of the boys interested in
the matter afterwards entered the army;
two are dead, and the third is the writer.
On June &c the people of Montowese cele-
brated the raising of flag on their little
green near the Baptist church. This en-.
sign was 14x20 and foated from an eighty
foot mast. Nearly thousand people were
present and the enthusiasm of the even
turned many young fellows thoughts tt
his country's need.
The next public meeting was held Au
gust %, same year, on North Haven green
This too was in honor of the stars anc
stripes. An Expensive flag, 20130, pre-
pared by the ladies out of the best possible
material, was displayed from a staff III
feet in height. These colors lin use to- day
were drawn to the peak by Billa Thorpe
then in his eighty second year, and son Of
Sergeant Jacob Thorpe, killed at the in
vasion of New Haven, July 1779. Ad
Thomas Lawton, John Woodruff, Franz
Peck and Homer B. Sprague. There wal
brass band and glee club, and COLLATION.
under the oaks.
1t was not until President Lincoln's cal
for 5000 men, made in July, 1862, sup
plemented two days later by Gov
ernor Buckingham's proclamation fo
1000 men as Connecticut's quota
that the town, as such, tool
any public action concerning volunteering
The very magnitude of the call hurried,
awoke the North to sense of danger NOR
| impending than any reverse to our armie
had yet brought.
| A public meeting was held in Academ
hall August 4, 1862, with Captain Henri
H. Stiles chairman. The object of thi
| gathering was expressed in its call:
| ''For the purpose of making an appropriate
| to encourage volunteering in this town, and t
| appoint committee to assist in getting re
| cruits.''
There was large attendance. Elizu
G. futile, war democrat, introduced
forth the expression of the meeting. TIL
following vote was passed:
"Resolved, That the selectmen be authorized t
pay each volunteer 800"
On the evening of the same day the frs
war meeting of the citizens was held at tn
above place. The hall was small, barely hold
ing over one hundred and fifty persons, bu
on this occasion more than two hundred
men and boys were crammed into it. TIL
name of the presiding officer is lost. I
was addressed by Hon. O. Fl. Plat ant
Dexter R. Wright of Meriden. Wrigh
was the hero of the evening. An impas
stoned appeal was made to the Nortl
Haven boys to assist in the formation of
distinctive New Haven county regiment
to be known as ''The Lyon Regiment
listed in the Sixth Connecticut (bu
withdrawn without service from being
| minor), was the first to go forward ant
put down his name. The volunteering the,
began. AS one after another of the youn,
men rose to pledge themselves to thei
country, the widest enthusiasm swep
| through the little hall. 1t was ap hou
| and a scene one seldom sees, never for
gets. On this night fathers gave up son
| and wives husbands. The supreme mo
| ment had come to the quiet country town
| and its farmer boys nett squarely. Tha
| night and the next day thirty of them en-
rolled themselves under Capt. H. H. Stiles
in connection with Wallingford and North
ford as CompanyK, Fifteenth Connecticut
and five days later all were in camp a
Oyster Point, New Haven.
A second town meeting was held Angus
80, 1862 at which Whitney Elliott presid
ed. At this time bounty of $3.50 wa
| voted any who should enlist prior to Sep
TENDER 10. Under this provision the min
necticut came in. Up to October 6, 1862
| the time of the completion of the town &C
| counts for its financial year, So, 900 hat
been expended in bounties.
On October 81, 1869, third town meet
ing was held, at which large committe
was appointed to procure volunteers, bu
they were not plenty and no report wa
made.
A fourth meeting was held and an ap
preparation of 5000 was made to fill tn
quota (still shorD and Elizur G. Tuttle ant
Horatio N. Warner were to find the men
1t is not thought they succeeded.
On March 8, 1868, came the act of con
gress ordering draft. The following
July fifth meeting was called, at which
| was voted
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| the United States who responded either person
ally or by substitute or paid communication fee O
$500 should be paid $50 from the treasury of tn
| town.
A resolution appropriating sum not t.
| exceed So, 900 was carried to provide TO
| this purpose. The draft was iminent Til
authorities used great exertion, but wer
still thirty-six behind their quota. An en-
rollment of the town was ordered, whicl
was made by Joseph T. Hall, and the fol
! lowing persons were conscripted in Au
| gust:
Franklin Beecher, Vernon G. Stiles,
| John j. Culver Rowe s. Bradley,
Rufus Thorpe, James NJ. Baldwin,
Sheldon B Thorpe, Hubbard Barnes,
l Jonathan B. Allen, Maurice Halligan,
Julian W. Tuttle, Chester Robinson,
| Feronda B. Robinson. Peter Kellaher,
l Jared Cooper, James Heaton,
Isaac W. Stiles, Ohauncey Thorpe,
Jerry Higgins, James B. Bishop,
James T. Hall, Hobart Blakeslee,
/ George F. Smith, Jesse Warner,
Robert w. Smith, George Martin,
Herbert L. Bradley, Hervey Hurley,
| Horace P. Shares, Joseph Schappa,
Robert B. Brockett, Munson A. Bassett,
George E. Brockett, Michael Hurley,
William Bassett, William Fl. Haynes.
Of this number six were ineligible, tw
procured substitutes, four had already bee
excused, thirteen paid the Communication
| fee and the balance escaped somehow
one knows-but certainly none enlisted.
The next public meeting took place Nc
vember rs, 1864 At this time it was vol
ed to pay each resident of the town tina
had furnished substitute since July
1894 or Who noioht voJunfaar klaa er1no n