The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-24
FOURTEENTH coNNEcTIcUr.

union,
 Hartford Aug. 21-The Rev, Henry S. Stevens of Washington D. C., who has been identified with the Pension Bureau in the national capital most of the time since the war, will be here
 September IT, to attend the reunion of his old regiment, the Fourteenth Con-
 necticut, of which he was the chaplain for three years,
 Chaplain Stevens is the historian of
 the Fourteenth c. ", and has the his- tory of the command well advanced.
 At the annual reunion in September, the publication of the work will be def
 initely considered by the veterans of the regiment, who have been deeply in-
 terested in it's production by the chap
 lain. Bonds were issued two years ago or more, which were taken by members
 of the organization, ensuring portion
 of the funds that have been needed in
 prosecuting the work, and under that advantage the preparation of the histo-
 ry has been greatly facilitated. Chap
 lain Stevens kept complete diary of
 the regiment through the war, and this
 has been of great assistance to him in
 the work which he has undertaken.
 He has also been materially aided by
 means of a war diary that was kept by
 Colonel William H. Tubbs of the Aetna
 Life Insurance company, who was one
 of the regiments best known commits
 stoned officers in the service.
 Chaplain Stevens was the pastor of
 the Baptist church in Cromwell at the
 outbreak of the war. He was settled
 in that town not far from 1858, and was
 prosecuting his pastoral work when the
 decision was made to enter the service.
 There was an interesting rivalry in
 connection with the chaplaincy of the
 Fourteenth that is remembered to this
 day. The participants in the contest
 were Mir Stevens and the Rev. Samuel
 Fisk, pastor at the time of the Congre-
 gational church In Madison in this
 state. MT. Fisk was known in the lite
 rary world under the nom de plume of
 Dunn Browne. He was graduate of Amherst and of the Andover Theologi-
 cal school and had travelled extensive ly. He was a patriot as well as clergy
 man. and had left his Madison pasto-
 rate to enter the ranks of the Four teenth as an enlisted soldier He was
 commissioned before the regiment left Camp Foote in this city, for the front It was while the command was en- camped here that the chaplaincy ques- tion became one of burning interest In those days the line officers were giv- en the power of electing the spiritual adviser of the men. The Rev. Henry S Stevens, the Baptist reacher of Crom- well, and the Rev Samuel Fisk, the Congregational divine of Madison, were the candidates. The lot fell on the
 Baptist, and he was taken for the work of evangelizing the regiment. Looking back on that contest of thirty-foul years ago, the general verdict would be that the vote wisely determined the re suit. Dunn Browne was not the mar
 to skulk in his tent. He was honoreG with two commissions before the regi. ment left for the field, receiving the ap- pointment of first lieutenant August 20 1882 He received q captains commis- sion January 19, 1863 He was a brave officer and fell mortally wounded at the head of his company in the battle oi the Wilderness. May 6, 1864. He died 1T the hospital at Fredericksburg, Va. May 23. 1864. The example of his lift was tenderly remembered by his com rades in arms
 MT. Stevens. who won in the chap laincy contest, was the man for tha post, and through the three years of tht war he proved himself worthy not only of the state commission, which he held | but also of the divine warrant that hat been entrusted to him by the Master O all He was a noble and upright guido of the regiment through it's long anC brilliant career, caring for the sick ant wounded with tenderness and loyalty | that will be recalled with the utmos satisfaction as long as the members O l the old command survive. Throusl l the years in which he has been II Washington he has taken pains to cart l for the graves of the men who wer' buried in the vicinity of that city, ex | tending this care even to the field 0 Gettysburg. In this work of affection | ate remembrance he has had the coop eration of such men as President E. H Williams of the Regimental associa | tion, who resides in this city, and is on of Hartford's prosperous business men | President Williams, by the way, ha | sent flags and bunting to Andersonvill l to be used in decorating the graves il | the old prison trenches, carrying hi 1 interest in the regiment to the farthes fields where the union dead are buried After the war Chaplain Stevens ac | cepted pastorate in the city of Brook | lyn, but was soon afterwards appoint | cd to position in the surgeon -gener | aFs office in Washington. From tha | department he was transferred to tn | Pension Bureau, and has been identi l fled with that branch of the govern ment service upwards of twenty-fiv years. Chaplain Stevens has a wifi and two daughters. One of the latter | Julia, is married and resides in India
 na Miss Kittie Stevens, the unmar
 ried daughter, whom the chaplain de | lights in, calling Kit" resides at home Like her sister she is lovely woman | and would be made the daughter of tn | regiment without a moments della. | could she be induced to attend the re union.
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