The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-14
INTERPRETING BOOK WHICH HAS
 JUST BEEN PUBLISHED.

hundred and sixty-two pages. MT. Thorpe. the author. who is resident of North Haven. Is to be congratulated on having produced a book which will un- doubtsdly be very satisfactory not only to all members of the regiment. but also to all interested in 1t. Mr. Thorpe was the author of the volume entitled North Haven Annals" which were published in the Journal and Courier some time ago in serial form. and which have since been issued, as stated, in book form.
 The dedication of the book is as fol-
 To the Memory
 of the
 Fifteenth Connecticut Volunteers,
 Living and Fallen.
 As Record of Loyal Service to the
 Nation,
 This Volume is Dedicated
 by
 the Author
 and by Committee of Publication,
 Charles D. Barnes,
 William S. Beecher,
 James A. Churcn.
 On the dedication page is also a fine half-tone portrait of MT. Thorpe, the author. The book Is also fully illustra- ted with fine half-tones and elegant steel engravings. The frontispiece of the book is a steel engraving of the late Brigadier-General Dexter R. Wright, of New Haven, the first colo mel of the regiment. He was by birth q Vermonter, but graduated at Wes- leyan university, this state, and from the Yale Law school. He took up the practice of law in Meriden and was elected to the state senate. When the war broke out he made many speeches throughout the state in its support, and with others made earnest efforts to bring the democratic party firmly to the support of the administration at Washington, in its effort to preserve the Union. Commissioned by Governor Buckingham as Ieutenant-colonel of the Fourteenth Connecticut in the sum- mer of 1862, he was promoted within a few weeks to the command of the Eff teenth Connecticut, in which capacity he led the regiment until his resigna- tion in 1863 Colonel Wright after7 wards served the state again as mem- Der of the general assembly in 1882, when he was elected speaker, serving as such in the session in the new capi- tol at Hartford. He died in 1886 at New Haven, where he had removed after the war, ,hin the sixty-sixth year of his age. The portrait of Charles l.. Upham, the second colonel of the regiment, is found on page 90. He was also a Green Mountain boy by birth. At the com mencement of the rebellion he was liv- ing in Meriden, Conn.,, and enlisted as a private in Co. B, Third Connecticut Volunteers, April 25, 1861. He was chos- en first sergeant of his company, and as such served the three months term, being mustered out August 12, 1861. The Eighth Connecticut was already in contemplation by Governor Bucking- ham when the Third Connecticut ar rived home.
 Sergeant Upham soon opened a re- cruiting, office for it. He received commission as captain of Go. K,,-Sep- tember IS, 1861, and in October went to the front with his command. For ex- cellency in soldierly conduct in general, and for special gallantry at the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg. Cap- tain Upham was promoted to be major of his regiment, December 2S, 1862, and lfeutenant-colonel March 9, 1868. He was wounded at the battle of New Berne, N. C., March g, 1862, and was also temporarily placed in command of the Sixteenth Connecticut after the bat tie of Antietam and until the engage ment at fredericksburg. His last pro- motion was to the colonelcy of the Eff teenth Connecticut, April IS, 1863. This was during the memorable siege of Suf- folk, Va, and his coming gave bril- liancy and prestige to the regiment. Colonel Upham was every inch a sol dier and a fighter. Had his brigade been properly supported at Kinston no such disaster would have overtaken our forces as General Carter was alone responsible for. With the muster out of his regiment in 1865 Colonel Upham returned to Meriden, and later in that year organized the dry goods firm of Ives, Upham & Rand, one of the most successful institutions in Meriden to- day. He was mayor of Meriden in 1S72-8. .,.:t. There are also portraits, of Captain Julius Bassett, Captain Theodore Davis, Colonel Samuel Tolles, Major B. W. Osborne Surgeon H. V. c. Holcombe, Chaplain D. H. Miller, Captain Reuben Waterman, Captain M. A. Butricks, Chaplain J. B. Doohttle, Captain A. W. Harry, Captain H. H. Stiles, Lieuten- ant J. B. Bissell, Lieutenant c. S. Gray, Captain George M. White, Captain M. D. Munson, Adjutant P. c. Rand, Lieu tenant E. w. Bishop, Captain R. o. Bradley. Lieutenant William Goodrich, Quartermaster M. c. Augur, Lieutenant A. Rodriguez, Lieutenant William Thompson, Lieutenant Hober s. Ives, Lieutenant A. P. Day. Lieutenant John Hall, Lieutenant s. F. Linsley, Captain w. c. Burgess and Lieutenant c. F., Bowman. i Among the miscellaneous illustrations are: Camp Chase" which was located on a part of the General Lee estate in Virginia, "Casey's Pet" which was a, name applied to the members of the regiment because dress coats, leggings, regulation hats and shoulder scales were issued to the soldiers for parade before General Casey; soldier of 1862; view of Fredericksburg, Va, in 1862; Ninth Army corps badge; Discipline" battlefield of Kinston; log houses and the New Berne (N. O monument, s.L ..