The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-27

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tional explanation of this seems to be
that we came in contact with those
striplings about Washington known as
medical cadets" Perhaps we were
practiced upon by some Of them. If so,
any little touch of their attendance was
sufficient to consign to everlasting
Hades the whole strutting crew. In
view of our experience with malaria
and particularly with them, 1t Is
no wonder none of us ever desired to
be numbered In the same category with
those pin feathered gosllngs.
The legal fraternity must also have
suffered from our failure to recruit It's
ranks. A wicked man in the Twentieth
Connecticut once said that we had more
applicants at the bar" than any other
regiment in the Ninth army corps. 1t
may be. Perhaps Lieutenant Linsley
has some statistics about it, Very
likely the study of law had it's enchant-
ments for u.s. and we fully expected to
electrify che world along this line.
Some succeeded. l heard of one mem
Der going to court in Waterbury year
or more ago, and he was full of cleo
tricity. He had three policemen sitting
on his legs and two citizens on each
arm holding him down in patrol
wagon. Two teeth were gone, little
finger was broken, his ANGLE wrenched
but he was singing jubilantly,
Swing low sweet chariot,
| Comm for to carry me home"
But our records are not based on such
achievements. We have men Of nobler
brand. Baldwin was winning distinc
ton when he was so suddenly called
away, and Bissell's star Is steadily ris-
! ing in the blue skies Of Colorado. l say
| then all honor to the comrades in the
! professions who took down their
scythes when they came home from the
conflict and went about doing business
at the old stand.
The suggestion has been made to your
historian that possibly at these reunions
we speak more freely of the deeds Of
the rank and file than of the field and
staff If this be so it should be rene
died for it is certain no regiment loves
it's officers more than we love ours. To
prove It, we had not been in the ranks
more than twenty-four hours when we
began giving them advice, and have
kept 1t up ever since.
I[Sl ne lSCd1l SltSle OCCdolo.l WHICH
possibly may have escaped the memory
of some Coming down the river from
the raid on Plymouth. n. c., the boat
ran on a sand-ba'. A lieutenant (rot
present to-day became greatly alarm
ed thereat and rushed up and down,
shouting, I'VE are lost! The boat is
sinking! Boys, save yourselves" Over
In one corner a thin voice piped out,
You darn fool, how we goin' to sink
when we're aground?" That advice
saved the day.
But we must turn to graver matters,
We have a large death roll, the longest
In years-perhaps In our history. The
details which follow may be known to
some of you but there must be others
who knew our comrades In the field, but
whose ways of life parted from them
many years since. This is our memo
rial day.
JEROME COAN.
Jerome Coan Of Company e was pres !
ent at our last reunion. He had the |
feeling it would be his last, and 50 eX-
pressed to a comrade He died sudden
ly at his home In North Guilford on /
%, 1890 aged sixty-1ve I
years. He and his twin brother Joseph |
enlisted August 8, 1S62-the latter died
In November, 1862 Jerome was taken
sick al Falmouth and thereafter spent
nearly all his time In various hospitals.
For a while he was an inmate OF the
knight General hospital in New Haven,
and, though within a two hours vide Of
his home, was forbidden Its privileges
and comfort.
Coan was but one of thousands of
our soldiers made victims OF hospital 4
tyranny. Thousands and thousands
again of our lads died in these hospitals
who, had they been released on fur
oughs, would gladly have yielded their
3canty pay back to the government for
he privilege of being home thirty or
sixty days and then have returned to ;
luty with cheerfulness. The soldier
you'd have saved his life and the coun-
ry would have saved the soldier. On
he contrary, in ninety cases out of ]
very hundred both were lost by a {
Mort -slghtedness only few removes !
rom assininity.
None In North Guilford was more
IGNORED than our comrade. For sevet- {
u years he conducted a country store ]
here with success. He was a member
# the Congregational church, a Free
mason and Grand Army man. 1t can c
'e said of him that he lived up to obi {
cations of all these and died in the I
lope Of another life beyond. c
CHARLES C. BALDWIN.
Charles c. Baldwin of Company WIS
orn In Middletown, Conn, In 1899. He /
wrongly entered on cur record from (
he town of Orange. He enlisted in New t
haven and served \
Young Baldwin was a farmer previ- e
us to putting on the blue. He mar b
led 1mogene Mallory at the close IF the {
.ar and had small family. none of b
yhom, however, was living at the time !.
t his death. His years were mostly o
pent In New Haven in the employ CT u
. L. Chamberlain, r. B. Bradley & Co, 4
S. Thompson & Co. and others. He h
,as a member OF the Grand avenue c
BAPTIST church, a member of the C
nights of the Golden Eagle, Castle VI
10. g. and a comrade in the Grand E
rmy. He died at the home OF his n
rother In Durham. Conn, and was
uried there, "
GEORGE W. SMITH. "
George w. Smith of Company K VIII e
9 best remembered for his heroic work II
| Newberne, N C. 1t was as nurse d
uring that fateful yellow fever period r.
lat fateful yellow fever period thar he p
lowed soldiers devotion to duty and fl
Christians confidence III tha hour az ! K