The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-12
THE COMING REUNION
Of the Old First conneeticut cava

Of the Old First Connecticut Cavalry.
 The thirty-first annual reunion of the Connecticut Cavalry association will be held in Willimantic Wednesday, Au- gust 1T. The business meeting will be held in the new Town Hall at il a. nl At noon a banquet will be served by the Woman's Relief corps in the c. A. R. banquet hall, and in the afternoon public meeting will be held in the Town Hall in the new town building. At. the afternoon meeting the Cavalry assoeia- tion will unite with the veterans of the Eighteenth c. ", which will hold it's reunion in G. A. R. hall the same day.
 The Connecticut Cavalry association, says the Hartford Courant is composed of the members of the First squadron, c, V. Cavalry, and the First regiment, c. " Cavalry, organized later. The First squadron was recruited in Au gust, 1861, and was mustered into the United States service the same month. Very soon after however, it was con- solidated with the Second New York, otherwise known as the Harris Light Cavalry" and the history of the regi- ment shows that the men were credited to the quota of New York, which ac- counts for the somewhat incomplete re- cord of the squadron. With this. regi- ment Davies and Fitzpatrick both won their first distinction as cavalry com manders. and the rapid promotion of it's Connecticut men, as also the many casualties in the two Connecticut com 1aa r4jac ,,at,5nr q matt of I,ap1l1ia Y regret that fair and circumstantal history on their active service cannot be given. On almost every field where the cavalry of the Army of the Poto- mac was engaged throughout the war, the Connecticut squadron made it's re- cord of bravery, unmarred by any sign of faltering, however hotly pressed. Among the earliest in the field, it was in at the death of the rebellion
 The casualties of the squadron are reported as follows: Killed, 8; missing in action (probably billed), l. fatally wounded, 3; wounded, A. captured, 27; died in prison, 12; died of disease, IS; accidental deaths, 4; discharged, disa- bled, 25; unaccounted for at muster out, 2.
 The First regiment was organized as battalion of four companies and served as such from October, 1861, to December, 1862. During the year 1863 it was recruited to regiment of twelve companies, and from March, 1884 until the surrender of Lee 1t served as a full regiment During it's service as bat talion and a regiment the regiment participated in no less than eighty mine ai4 hot -1ytr mishes The crowning event of it's ser vice was when it was detailed to act as escort to General Grant when he went to receive the surrender of General Lee. After Lees surrender the regiment was detailed for provost duty until the fol- lowing August, and battalion was sent to Gettysburg at the laying of the corner stone of the soldiers monument there July 4, 1865. On it's muster out it was allowed to return to its state mounted, a privilege accorded to no other regiment in the service. It was discharged at New Haven August 1S, 1865, almost three years and ten months from the date of it's first encampment at West Meriden.
 The total number of men enlisted in the regiment, including 66 unassigned recruits, was 1,427 as follows. Field and staff officers, 15; Company A, 152; B, 140; c, 142; D, 146; E, 114; F, 93; C., 76; H, 94; I, 96; K, 102; L, 94; M, 9S; un- assigned, 66. The casualties of the reg iment, according to the last corrected list, were as follows: Killed in battle, 26; missing in battle (probably killed), 9; died of wounds received in battle, [;
 killed by accident, 4; died of accidental wounds, ?; died in rebel prisons, 76; 1 died in rebel prisons probably, 12; died of disease, v; total lives lost, 213. Wounded in battle, 101; wounded acci- dentally, s; captured, 3O5. Total cas-
 ualtiea reported, 629; discharged for | disability, 190; unaccounted for at mus ter out, 4; total casualties, S29; percent | age of casualties in regiment, 57.7.