The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-30
REUNION HELD YESTERDAY
OF COMPANY r, FIRST CONN. HEAVY
 ARTILLERY.
hIany Old Comrades Present. Officers Elected for the Ensuing Year-A Com pact History of the Company-The Old First Heavies.

First Henvies.
 The annual reunion of Company F
 First Connecticut Artillery, was helt
 yesterday at Savin Rock. The day
 was all that could be desired and t'.s
 reunion thoroughly enjoyed by all pres ent
 The members met at the corner ot
 Church and Chapel streets and boarded
 the trolley for the Rock. where they whiled away the time fighting the old battles over again until dinner was an nounced. The following sat down to the tables: Judge Edwin c. Dow and wife, Frederick H. Waldron and daugh- ter, Lozelle Foote and wife, Willis M Smith and two ladies, Addison c. Jones, Theron Hull, David Corey, Martin h. Church, Charles L. Morse, A. Bodge, Robert Langdale, George Dayton, all of this city; z. l.. Dibble of Brookfield, J. L. Nichols of Huntington, J. B. Rudd of Elmhurst, L. l., Seth Warner of Roxbury, F. Hopper and Durell Shep- ard of West Haven, Mrs. Theron k. Thorp and Irving Rudd.
 After dinner was over business meeting was called to order by the president, J. l.. Nichols. The minutes of the last meeting were read by Sec retary Waldron and approved. Let ters of regret of their inability to be present were read from J. B. Porter, J. H. Munson and John Herschaft of Noroton, G. J. Johnson of Boston and William L. Hart of Brighton, o.
 Notice of the death of Russell w.. Wilcox of Louisville, Ky, was received by the secretary. Speeches were made by several of the members present.
 The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:
 President--Willis M. Smith.
 Vice president-Dr. Durell Shepard.
 Secretary and treasurer-Frederick H. Waldron.
 Executive ommittee-Theron Hull, Charles L. Morse and A. c. Jones.
 This company was organized April P, 1861, and was mustered into service May P, 1861, for three years. It served four years and four months. It was as- signed to the old Fourth Connecticut Volunteers, but was afterwards trans ferred to an artillery regiment and re- cruited up to twelve companies of 150 men each. It went into the battle of Hanover Court House with 1,S00 strong. It bore upon it's rolls from first to last nearly 3,400 men, being among the larg- est regiments ever in the field. It laid at Yorktown the heaviest siege of the war, consisting of two 200 pound par rots, eleven 100 pound parrots, twenty %xuo tc 1-d rifle guns, ten IS inch mortars ten 10 inch seacoast mortars, fifteen 10 inch siege mortars and three inch siege howitzers.
 After the evacuation of Yorktown this regiment proceeded up the Penin- sular with McClellan's army and re- mained until the close of the campaign and composed the only Connecticut troops that were with Mcclellan during his campaign of 1862. It took prominent part in the battles of Hanover Court House, Mechanicsville, Gains Mills, Chickahoming, Goldens Farms, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp and Mall vern Hill. In adition thereto it partici- pated in the siege of Fredericksburg, Kellys Ford, Orange Court House, Siege of Petersburg and Richmond from May, 1864, until April, 1865, and also Fort Fisher Its record in the campaign was second to no other regiment. During the great Richmond campaign of eleven months its services were most conspicuous and honorable after exacting long and eX- exposure to constant artillery and musket fire, which soldiers of other arms suffered in much less degree from | being frequently relieved by fresh | troops.
 In January of 1865 unaided and alone l It fought the entire rebel ironclad fleet | in its passage down the James river to | our base of supplies, and contributed l to its repulse. At the bat | lie of Petersburg mine and it's final as- sault April it nobly did it's duty. At | Forts Dutton, Stedman and Malone the 1 First Connecticut was brought into land to hand conflict with the enemy, | thing of rare occurrence with this srm of service.
 The commanding general in General Orders said of this regiment: "The First Connecticut regiment of artillery md the requirement. of service of it's pecial arm stands unrivalled in the ar- nies of the United States"
 The regiment returned to Hartford II September, 1865, where it was mus cred out.
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