The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-25
INCIDENTS OF CAMP LIFE
STORIES TOLD Hf TIE SOLDIER BOTS AROUND TIE GiMP FIRE.

DOTS AROUSD THE ciMP FIRE.
 Moral Company I-Sens of Iti Members woaid Steal Chickens, Especially Bill | Hichois-why Colonel Wright Lost n
 Brixndfer's Star.
 The following is n continuation of
 tho "reminiscences and incidents of the
 camp life of the Fifteenth regiment.
 Connecticut Volunteers. as told by
 sheldon B. Thorpe in his admirable
 history of the regiment. recently is-
 sued:
 AN INCIDENT or THE BATTLE or kfSs- TON.
 As soon as our right wing was brok- en through by General Hoke. one of his first acts was the capture of the
 Third New York battery. The latter
 had just taken a now position under orders from Colonel Upham, but had
 not opened when they swooped down upon it. Its horses were disabled In a
 moment and the men prisoners. Sergeant Barnes. of Co R, who was
 ih the act of loading his rife, chanced to observe a rebel officer cutting a horse
 loose from one of the caissons. Barnes
 had inserted the cartridge In his mus
 ket and while extending his ramrod
 to send 1t home. the latter was struck by some flying missile and knocked
 from his hand. Turning to a com
 rade (PlanO he borrowed his ramrod, and in a second his piece was loaded
 Plant handed him cap. and. with out withdrawing the ramrod. Barnes fired at the officer as he was mount ing the artillery horse: the Confede- rate fell with his foot caught in the stirrup, and the animal. now thor oughly frightened, ran, dragging the unfortunate man over the field. That the victim was an officer of some high rank Barnes always felt confident from his manner and his uniform, but was never able to learn whether he was killed or merely disabled.
 GENERAL oAsEY's FAILURE TO SECURE
 BRIGADIER's STAR FOR COL. WRIGHT.
 It has been matter of much spec ulation why the provisional brigade formed by order of General Casey, at Fairfax Seminary, was so unceremoni- ously dissolved at Frede.icksburg, Va. in 1882. for up to the hour of reaching camp at the latter city both officers and men supposed that the relations existing between Colonel Wright and the regiments he had led on that long. cold march through Ma ryland would stiIl continue. It came. therefore, as great surprise when a change was ordered. Chance led to the new brigade formation. General Casey had become warmly attached to Colonel Wright and the gallant Fifteenth c. V. He was impressed with the morals of the men and the efficiency and Zeal of their officers. It was certainly the greatest compliment he could have paid to the timber of the Lyon regiment, and to the justness of the pride of New Haven county in its formation, to retain it longer at Washington than was necessary and usual to, retain the regiments pouring into the national capital. And fur ther General Casey promised Colonel Wright all his influence for the early bestowal of commission as briga- dier-general, and the chance that brought. together upon the field at Fredericksburg the Eighth, Eleventh, and Twenty-first Connecticut and other regiments of those states from which the remaining regiments of the Provisional brigade was recruit ed. was all that prevented the bestow- al of the star so coveted by every col- onel in the service and by the loyal boys of the Fifteenth for their colonel and their other officers who would have been upon his staff. For in accordance with the policy at that time of brig adirg, so far as possible, the regiments rom the same state, the Provisional brigade formed by General Casey was broken up, and to the surprise and of the Fifteenth, Col 'nel Wright found his regiment at- ,aehed to one of the older and numeri- ally weaker brigades, of which Gene al Harlarid, whose commission ranked Colonel Wright's by few months, was placed in command. This change proved iri the end to have so deferred he promised promotion of Colonel Wright that his expectations were lever realized. as his injury sustained 1t Alexandria resulted in his turning 'ver the command to Lien'ena-t-co',- | lel Tolles, and his furlough and resis- | lation from the service. Thus 1ne Fifteenth lost the fame of higher rank | or it's commander.
 CAPTAIN BuTrR1cH's REvERiEs.
 November 1O 1S83.--On this pleasant .vening I find myself sitting in my 'asy chair, my thoughts going back 0 the days of 1862, when in all the. ride and enthusiasm of young man. lood listened to what I still believe | 6. have been the cali of duty and en- oiled myself among those who were | constitute the good, brave and ex- eptionslly moral regiment of Connect cut. I lent my best efforts in raising. erhaps, the company, 50 far as good morals go, that composed the old Eff eenth, c. ", for assuredly no one will this assertion, that Co. l 7as noted for it's strict integrity and tern morality; If 50, can point with onfldence to one still living, who holds
 position of responsibility in the city f New Haven, and say to such a oubter: Go ask Bill Nichols if Co. ras not honest and strictly moral.
 Was ever lost dog or an absent iinded rooster traced to Go. I? New F; all traces of such property were cer- ainly lost before the search could