The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-19

New York, New Haven and Hartford road, holding the position of auditor. The Rev. Joseph Fl. Twichell was in l the class of 1859 and was in the same crew with Major Charles H.OWen of | the class of 1860. Both of these old 1 Yale oarsmen were in the war MT TWichell was the chaplain of New York regiment, serving under Gene ra Daniel F.. Sickles and General
 Hooker. He has been the president of the Third corps union and is one of the foremost Yale men in New Eng land He is a member of the Yale cor poration and will be one of the speak
 CTS at the university bl-centennial in October. Major Owen was in the First Connecticut Heavy artillery and was wounded in action He has represent ed the town of Manchester in the house of representatives and is a publicist of
 decided merit
 The Yale period with which these
 men, who served in the war were con-
 nected, comprised some of the most
 gifted representatives which the uni-
 versity has furnished. The Hon. Will
 liam c. Case, John Griswold, who was
 mortally wounded in the charge at An
 tietam bridge, Charles E. Bullseley,
 whose life was sacrificed in the Union
 cause in 1864, the Rev. Francis Eugene
 Butler, who was fatally wounded in the
 battle of the Nansemond in Virginia,
 May 3, 1863. the Rev. Storrs O.. Sey-
 mour, William A. Magill, who died in
 Amherst last year, and John M Mor-
 ris, the chaplain of the Flights Con
 no font hal tn ha i,1
 question: Ex-Speaker Case was the
 classmate of John Griswold and of
 Chaplain Butler. The latter was in
 New Jersey regiment and was shot
 by the enemy while attempting to bear
 the ministrations of his office to the
 wounded men of his command ill the
 battle of the Nansemond. He survived
 only a few hours One of the soldiers,
 who was with him after he was shot,
 entered Yale college in 1866. being ma
 circulated after the war. On the day of
 prayer for colleges during the fresh
 man year the services were conducted
 by President Woolsey who was then at
 the summit of his power. President
 Woolsey in addressing the students re-
 ferred to the life of Chaplain Butler, speaking of 1t as an example deserving
 the imitation of every man in the uni-
 versity. At the close of the discourse the student who had stood by the side of Chaplain Butler in his last hours ap- preached the venerable president of the college and told him of the particulars connected with the chaplain's death
 Years afterward this same student was on train on the Connecticut Western road en route for this city. By an in- teresting coincidence the Hon. William c. Case was one of the passengers. He was returning from Winsted, where he had been confined for several weeks from an attack of inflammatory rheu- matism, and was compelled to walk by the aid of crutches. It was necessary for him to leave the train at Tariffville. that being the nearest way to his home. But while he was alighting from the car the signal was given for the train to start. For the moment it seemed impossible that the distinguished law yer and politician could escape being thrown under the train. He was res cued by the Yale man, who had stood by the side of his old classmate when
  on the Nansemond, and had heard the story of his life years afterward from the lips of President Woolsey. The story in stranger than fiction. Speaker Case has always been confident that his life would have been lost at Tariff vile but for the assistance that came to him from the younger Yale man.
 Charles F. Bulkeley, who died in the service, was In the class ahead of Speaker Case. He was gallant offi- cer in the First Connecticut Heavy ar tillerH and went to the front from this city. He was the brother of ex-Gover- nor Morgan G. Bulkeley General Will liam Fl. Bulkeley and of Mrs. Brain- ard Ex-Mayor Leverett Brainare Ex- Governor Bulkeley has just given five hundded dollars towards the mon- ument that is to be erected on the cap itol grounds in commemoration of Cap tain Bulkeley's regiment
 Postmaster Bennett, who was in the class of 1860 rowed twice in the Yale contests with Harvard, being mem- Der both years with that noted Yale oarsman Wilbur R. Bacon. The Ba-