The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-16
TO MEET IN MERIDEN.
The Eighth and Fourteenth Regiments
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 It has been definitely decided to hold two regimental reunions in Meriden on
 September 17, when the survivors of the
 Eighth and Fourtheenth, two of the
 fighting regiments, will assemble, prob l ably at Hanover park. About three l hundred old soldiers will attend, and it | vii be soldiers day" at the park. These regiments received special men 1 ton for gallantry during the civil war,
 and the Fourteenth was christened the 1 Fighting Fourteenth" There are sev- 1 eral local members of both commands residing in Meriden who are planning to
 give their comrades grand time there. | The officers of the Eighth association
 and a brief history of that regiment Is appended:
 President, Andrew Gordon, Hazards vile; vice-president, w. H. Hunting 1 ton Hartford; secretary and treasurer, T. E. Hawley, Hartford.
 This regiment, when it left Hartford, | October F, 1861, for Annapolis, Md, numbered over one thousand men. It ! was in command of Solonel Edward Hartland of Norwich who was a cap- tain in the Third. As part oe Burn
 sides corps it first was at the battle of Newborn, N C., March IA, 1862, and the siege of Fort Macon few weeks later.
 When General Burnside was ordered to return to the Army of the Potomac, the
 Eighth accompanied him, and went
 with his corps into Maryland. At Anti
 etam, September, 1862, one officer and
 thirty-three men of the regiment were
 killed, and ten officers and one hundred
 and twenty nine men wounded. At
 Fredericksburg, in December, the
 Eighth escaped with slight loss; and in
 February, 1863, it was sent to southeast
 Virginia. The regiment remained in
 Virginia until January, 1864, when it re-
 turned to Connecticut in veteran fur laugh, three hundred and ten men hav-
 ing re-enlisted. In March 1t was back again at its old camp, near Portsmouth, Va, and after picket duty at Deep creek and vincinity took part in the battle at WalthalI Junction May and lost eight rmen. Colonel Harland had been appointed brigadier general, and the regiment was in command of Colonel John E. Ward, who was severely wounded in this battle. A few days later the regiment was in the engage ment at Fort Darling. During eight days the Eighth was constantly under arms, and in this brief time lost one third of it's fighting strength. It was in the battle of Cold Harbor and from the middle of June until the last of August, it took part in a large number of skirm- ishes near Petersburg, and lost heavily. The last general engagement in which | the Eighth took part was in storming of Fort Harrison, on the 29th of Sep | tenber. It was mustered out of service | December 12, 1865.
 FOURTEENTH REGIMENT.
 Officers of the Fourteenth association l are: President, B. c. Wilcox, Meriden; | vice president, H. s. Brooks, Middle l town; secretary, J. w. Knowlton, 1 treasurer A. P. Hammond, | Rockville.
 This was the first Connecticut regi- nent raised in response to President | Lincoln's call for three hundred thou sand" men in 1862. It left Hartford Au- rust 25, and within few days took an part in the batt'e of Antietam. From this time it was in nearly every | engagement of the Army of he Potomac until the surrender of Lee. At Gettysburg the Fourteenth made a brilliant charge, capturing five battle lags and forty prisoners, At Norton's Ford, February 6, S64, it engaged in a land- to- hand conflict with the enemy, osing 115 men. In the series of battles n the Wilderness, the regiment added resh Iaurels to it's record of noble ser ice. It experienced two years and nine months of hard service and was mus cred out May 31. 1865
 Three of the battle officers, Colonels Dwight Morris and V. G. Ellis and iajor J. B. Colt were brevetted to be 1 rigader generals.