The Newtown bee., 1908-06-19


 received. I consider it a great privi- lege to furnish the sum indicated, One Hundred and Forty four Dollars, each year, to such members of the Military Telegraph Corps as the Committee rec ommends. Mir R. A. Franks, Presl- dent of the Tome Trust Company, Ho- boken, N. J.. has been instructed to place on the pension rolls those the Committee recommends and mail them checks each year beginning January lst next. H
 Very truly yours,
 Andrew Carnegie.
 The Sixth Connecticut volunteers was the third three-year regiment or ganized in the State of Connecticut for the war for the Union. Its first colo nel was John L. Chatfeld of Water bury, who was commi ssioned.. August 22. 1861. He was unusually we'll versed in military affairs, a superior tactic ian; kind but firm disciplinarian; a brave and gallant officer, who always led instead of followed his command in action, and who was more jealous in the preservation of the rights of his soldiers than of his own rights as an officer. He was twice wounded in ac tion, the last time at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, on July IS. 1863, where he gave up the command of a brigade to lead his regiment in what proved to te forlorn hope, and in which en- gagement he received fatal wound and died beloved and mourned by all who knew him. The regiment was practically city regiment, having ! among it's 1,00S officers and men, three companies from New Haven, two from Bridgeport, one from Hartford, one from Waterbury, one from Stamford, one from New Britain and one from Putnam. The term of it's state and national service extended from August, 1861, to August, 1865, covering substan- tially four years. during which time it received 600 recruits. which added to the 1,008 officers and men with which it left the state in September, 1861, made total of 1908 men who saw service in its ranks during the war Its casualties during its four years of service numbered 877, being more than 54 per cent of it's membership. Its oper- ation covered wide stretch of terri tory, embracing the District of Colum- ia, Maryland, Virginia, North Caro- hna, South Carolina. Georgia and Flor ida. It participated in the first expe- dition and engagement of consequence after Bull Run, namely, the Sherman expedition of 1861, and the lombard ment and capture of Hilton Head, South Carolina, and jointly with the Seventh Connecticut volunteers, was the first Union force to land on the shores of South Carolina. During the four years it participated in more than 30 engagements and affairs in five diff. ferent states, the more important of which were the bombardment and cap ture of Hilton Head. s. C.; Fort Pu- laski, Ga. the batteries on the lower end of Morris Island, S. C.; actions near Bermuda Hundred, Va. siege of Petersburg, Va; actions near Rich mond, Va, 1864; assault and capture of Fort Fisher, N. C., and Whining ton, N. C., and was with General oher- man in North Carolina when the war was practically closed by the surrend- CT of the last great Confederate army under Johnson.
 It had as regimental commanders the brave and gallant ,Chatfeld, Redfield A. Duryea, a careful and conscientious officer, and Alfred P. Rockwell, who was the last colonel, and who possessed the attributes of good officer, and was highly respected for bravery, high character, integrity and devotion to the interests of his command. It served consecutively under those great commanders, General T. w. Sherman, Gilmore. Butler, Grant. our own gal lant Terry and General w. T. Sherman. During all its years of service its gal lant men never shrank from any call of duty, no matter how dangerous or haz- ardous the task no commanding otfi- cer ever criticised its conduct under fire and it never hesitated or wavered in the performance of the duty which at times of awful carnage and death de- voIved upon it. It proudly carried its colors, state and national, to the front in 1861, and as proudly returned them to the state in 1865, battle-scarred and storm-beaten, baptised by the blood of their bearers, of whom seven were killed in one engagement, never low ering or surrendering to the enemy the standards of their regiment.