The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-12
THE OLD FIFTH CONN. VOLS.
1HEIR ANNUAL REUNION IN .AN-
 SONIA YESTERDAY.

Monument Selected at Chicamaugua-A Sketch of the Regiments History.
 The annual reunion of the Fifth reg iment Connecticut Volunteers, was held in Ansonia yesterday, August Il, opening at Il o'clock, About seventy five survivors of the regiment were in attendance The regular business meet ing was held at the opening. President D. M. Carpenter called for the election of officers. and the following were cho- sen:
 , President, James Stewart, jr., of Yon- kers. N r.; vice president, George A. Case of New Haven; secretary and treasurer, E. Marvin of Hartford; chaplain, Forest Winslow of Simsbury.
 It was voted that the next reunion be held at Middletown, August 10, 1897.
 Speeches were made by Sergeant Case of New Haven, Thomas Garnet of Fall River, Mass, Thomas Benedict of New Haven, Captain Rugg of Bridge port, c. R. Shepard of New Haven, George Linsley of Branford, Comrade McCabe of Ansonia and others
 Colonel Warren w. Parker of the commission appointed to select site at Chickamauga for the erection of a monument to the memory of the Fifth regiment reported that beautiful To- cation had been found at Orchard Knob, in the vicinity of Missionary Ridge. The committee has received de- signs from several monument builders, but no decision has been reached as to the style The site chosen calls for a monument which cannot be built for the S2,000 appropriated. It is thought the next session of the legislature will increase the amount.
 The colonel told an interesting story of his visit to Chickamauga and Chat tanooga At first he was a little afraid to go there when he thought of the threatening demands made on him for $500,000 for property destroyed during the rebellion. He went, however, and skirmished about cautiously for time. Finally the people found out who he was and he had as many as eleven irl- vitations to dinner in one day, and the people generally could not do enough for him in the way of entertainment.
 The reading of the list of those who have departed life during the past year showed thirteen.
 After the meeting the visitors took trolley cars in waiting and were car ried to the pavilion at Housatonic park. where dinner was served.
 At the camp fire Monday evening the exercises were in charge of John H. Brewster and James H. Sherwood of Derby and Peter McGivney of Ansonia. T. M. Redshaw post. G. A. R., held a brief meeting and then the members of the Fifth regiment gathered around the banquet table, feasted, told stories and had fine time generally.
 A history of the Fifth regiment in brief is as follows: April 18th, 1861, Colonel Sam Colt offered to raise reg iment and arm 1t with revolving breach rifles of his own manufacture. His purpose was to have every man over six feet high, and good shot-a regi- ment of accomplished grenadiers; and on May 16th he was commissioned col onel of the First Connecticut revolving rifles. There was soon disagreement concerning arms, the appointment of subaIterns and other important mat ters: and Colonel Colts commission was revoked June 20th and the regi- ment, then numbering nearly seven hundred men, was disbanded, more than half of the men returning to their homes; but those who remained were organized into skeleton companies and designated as the Fifth Connecticut. Orris s. Ferry, of Norwalk was com missioned colonel and abandoned lu- crative law practice for the field. The camp was on the outskirts of Hartford. The companies were made up as fol- lows:
 Company A, Captain H. B. Stone. was from Danbury, Bethel Bedding, Ridgefleld and vicinity; B, Captain Justin H. Chapman Hartford Bristol, Windham, Griswold, Southington and Torrington; c, Captain George W. Cor aiss, New Haven and Norwalk; D. Cap tain F. D. Lane, Hartford and Water bury; E., Captain Wilson Wyant, Nor walk, Seymour, Woodbury and Nauga- tuck; F, Captain Edward F. Allen, Vernon and other towns in Holland county; G, Captain Warren w. Packer, Hartford, Norwalk and Stonington; H, Captain Albert s. Granger Putnam, Killingly, P1ainfield, Woodstock, Thompson, Eastford and Griswold; I, Captain Griffin A. Stedman, Cornwall, Salisbury, Sharon and Norfolk; K, Captain James Sutton, New London, Waterbury, Windham, Norwich, Sprague and Stonington. A company of Irishmen was raised for the regi- ment in Norwich, but they joined the New York First artillery. There were men from Norwalk in nearly every company of the regiment, attracted at the last moment, even after companies were organized, by the call of their popular neighbor to the command. The regiment was soon full to the max in1um, having 1,102 men. Physically they averaged the best material ever enlisted in the state.
 In the latter part of July, soon after the disaster to the union cause at Bull Run. the regiment left for the seat of war On arrival at Baltimore the men were transferred to the cars en route for the upper Potomac and spent a most uncomfortable night in freight cars. A terrible storm added to the discomfort Most of the men were weary with two nights of travel and dispirited with scant quantities of dry rations and the rest so inspirited by freuuent potations of Baltimore lager as to be in no amiable mood. At last they came to stop about mile east of Harper's Ferry, where they left the cars. marched two miles north and
 tt t- -1.- al