The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-17
THE OLD SOLDIERS.

The Second Connecticut Heavy ar tillery, which had adopted plans for a monument, will not go on with the pro- ject this fall but will wait until an other year before placing the design in the field. One reason for this course Is that the members of the regiment in tend to raise from s1 1000 to s2,000 in ad- dltion to the sum appropriated by the legislature, not exceeding S1,000, mak- ing at least s2,5O0 for the design that is to commemorate the valor and achieve ments of the old Litchfield county com mand
 The Second Heavy was originally the Nineteenth Connecticut infantry and was enlisted mainly from Ltchfield county. It was gallant organization and received elegant tributes from men like the late Governor Hubbard of Hartford. The annual reunion of the regiment will be held at New Milford in September.
 The committee has decided to place the monument at Arlington, and the national government has expressed ap- proval of the idea, readily granting permission to have the monument placed in that cemetery. Captain H. s. Mckinney, of Hartford, who is member of the committee, has raised the point that the state appropriation will not be available if the monument is erected at Arlington, as that was not battlefield. The resolution passed by the legislature provides for the erection of the state memorials on the battle fields in which the Connecticut regi- ments participated.
 THE FIFTEENTH c. V.
 The Fifteenth Connecticut has deci- ded however, to put it's memorial in the city of Newborn, N C., where the summer of 1864 was spent by the com- mand. The yellow fever prevailed at Newborn during that summer and large numbers of the Fifteenth suc- cumbed to the ravages of the plague. The summer was more disastrous to the regiment than the hardest cam palgning in the field could have been. In the case of Arlington, the outlook for the appropriation might be different and the point raised by Captain Nc Kinney ought to be thoroughly con- sidered.
 MONUMENT OF THE THIRTEENTH.
 Captain A. N. Sterry and several oth- CTS of the surviving members of the old Thirteenth regiment will very probably attend the ceremony, of dedication of the monument to the Thirteenth at the National cemetery on the battlefield of Winchester.
 The Eighth, Eleventh, Fourteenth and Sixteenth regiment survivors will join the Thirteenth in an excursion to the battlefield of Antietam, Sharpsburg and Gettysburg, taking in Harper's Ferry and Washington, with side trip on the return for the Thirteenth from liar per's Ferry to Winchester.
 The excursion will leave Jersey City Nn Monday October 8, at o'clock, and arrive at Gettysburg at 7:30. They are due in Washington on the return at p. m. Friday of that week. Veterans of the Thirteenth have received notifi- cations of the proposed excursion from the secretary of the regiment associa- tion, George Clary of New Britain.
 THE sUNKEN ROAD AT ANTIETAM. Colonel A. H. Nickerson writes in September Blue and Gray:
 The conspicuous points on the field of Waterloo were Hogomount La Have Sainte and the sunken road of Ohaine. The latter, however Is somewhat hid den in the mists of the past, and its existence even largely dependent upon the tradition due to Victor Hugos ref erence to it.
 The two similarly conspicuous points on the field of Antietam are the "Sunken Road" and the bridge now known as the Burnside Bridge" The former was sort of blind road or lane, some times called Bloody Lane." The Con- federate troops occupied this roadway, | and used the low but steep banks
 through which it was cut as sort of a breastwork, piling rails up on them to
 make them higher. Many times during 1 the progress of the battles these men l would have been glad to be safely out of it, and sometimes they were so cut ! off as to be willing to surrender. But it was impossible to get out. Occa- sionally man, more hardy than wise, would make the attempt, and the
 moment he appeared crawling up the bank or over the fence that stood be- tween the roadway and a cornfield back of it, he would be literally riddled with bullets. Several men got partly over the fence, and hung across the rails, their bodies being actually made into selves. Once, apparently by Unanimous consent" they concluded to try and surrender, and so hung out on the, points of their bayonets any sort of cloth available, that had once been white, as flags of truce; and before the Union troops could get down to where they were reinforcement came up in the cornfield back of them and commended firing over their heads. At once down came the tokens of suf- render and out went the deadly whiz- zing bullets again. Finally, however, in a charge of the Union troops that swept up to, over, and beyond the roadway, all the occupants that were still living were captured. After the battle was over no spot on the field presented a more horrible appearance than the ''Sunken Road" and its i'm mediate vicinitys The roadway was bankful of,dead with. the men, and the slopes that approached 1t were covered