The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-30
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
4 NOTABLE ADDRESS LAST EVEN
 ING BY T. z. TOWNSEND.

He speakI of "Connecticut and tho War for the Union"-Portrait of the Late
 Nathaniel Jocelyn-A Valuable Gift to the Society.
 MT. Thomas s. Townsend of New York, the compiler of the Townsend library. spoke last evening before the Historical society on the part taken by Connecticut in the War for the Union. He said in part: ..a
 T shall endeavor to entertain you this evening with the presentation of historical tableaux. formed of facts and figures collected chiefly from a work upon which have been engaged for the past thirty-three years, and which will show briefly. but decisively, what conspiouously honorable and glorious part the state of Connecticut bore in the greatest war that ever strained the power or tested the strength of any government"
 The lecturer then passed in rapid re- view the fall of Sumter, the presidents s proclamation calling for troops and the patriotic response of Connecticut and the other states.
 He said: Tt was fortunate for the cause and for the honor of your state that the spirit that animated her people found such fitting embodiment in the person of Governor Buckingham, to whose self-denying and patriotic exer- tions was greatly due the proud posi- tion of the state in the great con- | f1ict. We will make the battlefelds of the second War of Independence, If need be- said the governor, the altars of patriotic sacrifice and watch words of liberty forever The legisla- sentiments by unanimously passing a resolution that the state will stand by the old flag, and will furnish all the men and money that are required of her to put down the internal rebel Hon."
 The services of the clergy, the legal and the medical professions were then dwelt upon, as also the part taken by Yale in the great struggle. In refer ring to this venerable institution MT. Townsend said: a-..
 1.-The same patriotic spirit that stirred in the bosoms of the members of the learned professions was equally observ- able in the colleges and other educa- tional institutions. Thus old Yale, true to her traditions, inspired her sons in 1861 with the same loyal enthusiasm with which she cheered the Father of his country in the dark days of the revolution, and which later she brought to the framing and expounding of the constitution With such a record in the past Yale could not but take leading part in the struggle for the preserva- tion of the Union. Thus we find her sending forth 737 of her pupils, 535 of whom were drawn from the ranks of her alumni. Of the latter S5 fell on the field of battle, and, demonstrated by their glorious achievements, how thor oughly they had imbibed the spirit, how well they had retained the early lessons of Alma Mater that made them later good citizens, willing, soldiers and unr selfish patriots
 Tt was the honored president of Yale college-Rev. Theodore. D. Woolsey- whose learning and influence exerted such an effect upon the minds of the people as to aid greatly in changing a prevailing sentiment at. the time, and thereby made possible the considera- ton by England of the Alabama claims, which resulted in the treaty of Wash ington."
 After complimenting the women of the state and the historians Croffut and Morris, MT. Townsend continued:
 "It must be a source of patriotic pride that your sturdy commonwealth gave to the nation in its hour of peril no less than fifty-two general officers, eight of whom attained the rank of major generals. ~
 ''The deeds of g Winthrop, Putnam, a Trumbull, a Davenport, a Wooster, a Knowlton and Nathan Hale, that rendered glorious her annals during the War of the Revolution, were equaled and surpassed by those of a Grant a Sherman, a Mcclellan, Sedgwick, a Mansfield, Terry, a Lyon, a Foote, Ward and by thousands of lesser fame who yielded their lives that the light of the nation might not go out in dark ness and a republican form of roverr- ment be weighed in the balance and found wanting"
 The lecturer then proceeded +o ,,. careful and rapid review of tba ho,- ors due to each and every ra,r,r. rom the state and it is doubtful whether so full an account of their sar wees has been before prepared Ha saio, TOT example of the Eighth raoi- ment: s@ p#a . fesi-
 mere was no engagement in which your state suffered so seyerelv os =. Anttetam-the bloodfest battle of .ss war, where 500 of her sons wara Iae. dead upon the field. As ana atta. M another we saw the regiments of Con- necticut when brought to the stern er, crisis of battle meet undimayed tha dread encounter and by their st adv valor add glory after glory to tha,, flag, 50 at Antietam came the snlend,a Eighth, under command of Iieiitana n+ Colonel Hiram Appelman.
 The colonel encouraged fhe ste, dard bearers never to leave the colors One of the color guard falls, two. three four, and the standard goes to tba ground with the last. Sergeant walker of Norwich springs forward and seizas 1t amid the storm of death, strikes the star firmly in the ground, shakes the flag defantly towards the advancing foe, and finally brings the colors safely