The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-26
THE 18TH C.V. AT CRAWFORD
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i"'iACl dShtu WHdJ IS WduLGu llOSlJ John said, Get me devil, pal"
 And so it has been since, that who- ever looked upon Branford girl want ed her. Why Moses Crockett of North Haven (home of the flower of Co. K) came down here in 1706 and got Ann Granniss-old Parson Russell married them-and Ann presented Moses with fourteen children, including one case of twins.
 But this is not regimental history. It is introduced to show how men can be carried away who come under the charm of Totoket hospitality.
 In our individual experience enough has happened since last we met to fill a great volume. Each one of us has had some deep sorroW-some great joy. We cannot speak of these-they are as personal and sacred, but I believe we all felt common pleasure, all rejoiced when Co. K and Co. E saw their two faVorite ex-sergeants seated in sena- tors chairs in Hartford last January. And we all with one accord threw up our hats when one of these, because of his excellent record for foraging in 1S63-5 was chosen to a most responsible pcpitioii III SolldCl Illy lO lGSuleitS tilG "hewers of wood and the drawers of water'-and we are getting Skinner ready with his band to play "'Rastus on Parade" when Mix and Beecher are elected mayors of Wallingford and New Haven as they assuredly will be
 Perhaps on the other hand a com mon sorrow touched us most as an as- sociation, when Sergeant Baldwin of Co. H was so suddenly taken away In our comrade we lose one whose voice was often heard at these reunions. He was an original and independent think CT. Many did not always agree with him. Perhaps I might say he loved the storm of debate-He had more of the elements of an agitator probably than could be found elsewhere in the regi- ment, and had he lived would have come eventually to the front as the chief champion of the restless classes of Connecticut. But we do not altogeth- CT remember our dead by their civil lives. We go back and find a much dearer bond-the bond of memory, while they stood in the ranks as soldiers of the Union army. This is what we are here for to-day, not so much to move in the present as to live again in the past. And the strength and the beauty of this regimental association consists not so much in speaking of what we are as in thinking of what we were. Let us then remember Baldwin as the boy of 1S65- 1 the soldier, the sergeant, rather than | the man of 1S9G-the lawyer-the politi- l elan.
 Another event of interest is the recent marriage of Lieutenant Burritt. Ac- cording to the Michigan papers of last April, it appears that our comrade took | a wife in that state, though why he did not come to Branford for her we don't see. It Is said that Company H are 1 getting a cup with an appropriate in 1 scription ready to be presented him l early the coming winter. When our {! comrade was sergeant the tents of Company H backed up against those of 1 Company K and the latter's men fre- quently heard the endearments he was
 wont to use in getting his men out to 1 morning roll call On such occasions they said, "Burritt is teaching his Sun | day school class.''
 l Company l seems to have made more than an ordinary impression upon the l pCOplC Soulu OL llie T olOlIldC u IOll
 mean upon their smoke houses or ! chicken GOODS, but upon their hearts ) It was kind act to return Aliens Bi-
 ble as occurred few years since, and with no less pleasing courtesy an old Confederate in South Carolina now sends home another once carried by
 James Walker. I do not need to re-
 mind you of that March day at Kin ston. Walker and others on that thin
 skirmish line lie buried where they fell, and such fact makes the return of his
 Bible an event worthy of notice. The knapsacks of Company I were never
 thought to be overloaded with copies
 of this good book, and yet I dare say
 more could have been found than some
 may think. We all, or most of all, had
 mothers living when we marched away,
 and many a dear soul was the more
 reconciled to her boys going because
 she had put Bible in his knapsack
 Not all could keep it-not all read it
 who did keep it-and not all lived up
 to it who read it, but the solemn fact
 remains that it was cared for and look
 ed after as personal belonging we did
 not quite want to let go.
 The return of these volumes shows us
 (What we may have overlooked per
 haps) that there was a tender side to those once our enemies-a human side
 that would not spurn this book of
 books because "Yank' once owned it.
 but carefully preserved it up to the last day of Appomattox, and then for
 more than thirty years beyond. Truly, God made of one blood all the people of this nation-the north and the south
 the blue and the gray.
 No one supposed up to a short time since that there was so much gold ir
 the Klondike country; neither did any
 one imagine that Private Doolittle-hin
 of Company K--Isaac-could ever have
 been so deceived as he was on one oc-
 casion. The historian gets many sin , gular happenings put in his ear whici
 it is alleged befel us in OUT army expe.
 rience, and great care has to be usec . to relate none of these but such as are strictly true. As this incident seems
 quite reasonable we venture to put it ir here.
 When the regiment left Fairfax Sem mary for that cold march through Ma ryland for Fredericksburg, Va, Doolit
 tie, with other convalescents, was Jeff in camp, under orders to remain five days and then find trausnorta tioy dour