Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-16
GATHERING OF VETERANS
 FOR MONUMENT DAY.
Military Display in Recognition ot the Services of Frt Light Battery. the Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Reei- ments of Infantry in New Haven To-Day-Brief Story of the Work of the Commands Mentioned

home of many hundreds of men who
 fought under the Stars and Stripes in
 the great civil war, to-day was in holi-
 day attire in honor of the surviving
 veterans of four of COnnecticut's fam
 ous commands whose achievements on
 the field of battle hereafter will be
 commemorated in granite. This was
 monument day" under official desig-
 nation of the city's magistrate, and in
 the exercises which made it notable
 participated the surviving members of
 the First Light Battery and the Sixth,
 Seventh and Tenth regiments of in-
 fantry, Connecticut Volunteers, to
 whom the memorial unveiled in Broad
 way green was dedicated, the Grand
 Army posts of the city, the Second regiment of the National Guard, the
 Second company of Governors Food
 Guards and the other separate com-
 mands of the National Guard having
 quarters here. At no time since the bi- centennial celebration of Yale univer- sity were the street decorations so elaborate as to-day, business houses down town, the public buildings and many private residences in the neigh
 D0rhOod of the monument being lav- 1shly draped with bunting and flags.
 Especially noticeable for pleasing ef- feet in colors was the City hall, where
 Mayor Studley and the city govern ment reviewed the marching column.
 The monument which was unveiled is an artistic addition to the many fine examples of the sculptor's art in the city's public places. It has been placed in the small green at the intersection of Elm street and Broadway, just above the Yale gymnasium. At pres- ent the monument does not stand out prominently because it is in the shadow of the canopy formed by the branches of the great elms which sur round this plot of land. In architecture the memorial consists of rounded granite shaft surmounted by a ball of bronze on which stands. an eagle with outspread wings as if about to take flight. The shaft is on a terraced granite base with pedestals on the east and west sides, on each of which stands figure of civil war soldier The composition of the whole is ex- celelent and is especially pleasing to the soldiers in whose honor, in part, it | is erected and who were present to- day. The green will pass to the care of the park commission and soon will | become one of the places to be visited l by strangers coming to this city.
 The First Light Battery was organ ized at President Lincoln's first call to l arms in 1861, was mustered in at Meri- den on October IS of that year, and | for three years participated in cam paigns In South Carolina and Virginia, | being in General Alfred H. Terry's brigade during the last year of its ser vice in and around Petersburg. It was mustered out of the service in 1865.
 The Sixth regiment was formed in | 1881, was sent to Washington and | Drigaded in the Sixth army corps, and | saw service under General W. T. Sher- nan at Forts Walker and Beauregard | md off Port Royal, S. c.
 The regiment was actively engaged for long time on southern soil and | ts record was 25 battles, losing many nen.
 The Seventh Regiment went cut in -he first year of the war under Col. Alfred H. Terry of this city, later General Terry, and like the sixth saw service in and around Washington and hen further south on in the Carolina On May 19. 1862, Colonel Terry became a brigade commander, md Colonel Joseph HawIey took com hand of the regiment. Then followed he battles around Fort Wagner, in which the losses were very heavy. The next year the regiment was with General Butler on the James river, md took part in the advance on Rich nond. No Connecticut regiment suf- cred more severely than did the Sav- nth fin it's long period of active ser ice and when it was mustered out in S65 only mere handful of its origi- Ial members were left.
 The Tenth Connecticut was recruit | d for the most part in and around and went out under com nand of Colonel Charles Russell. of Derby. Ii was attached to General surnside's division and was baptized vith fire at Roanoke Island. Then ollowed months of hard fighting dur ng which General F.. s. Greeley of his city became it's commander It's losing service was at Appomattox nd Richmond. and like the Seventh. nly a fragment of its original mem- ership came back.
 The movement for a joint memorial D these three hard fighting Connecti- Ut regiments was headed by General :. s. Greeley of this city and to-day's etlIcation was the fruition of his