The Newtown bee., 1908-06-19


 received. l consider it 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. MT R. A. Franks, Presl- dent of the H ome 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.
 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 ssioneds August 22. 1861. He was unusually we'll versed | in military affairs, 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 a fatal wound and died beloved and mourned by all who knew him. The regiment was practically city regiment, having among its 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 its 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 l,O0S officers and men with which 1 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 S77, being more than 54 per cent of its membership. Its oper- ation covered wide stretch of terri tory, embracing the District of Colum- ia, Maryland, Virginia, North Caro- lima, South Carolina, Georgia and Flor ida. It participated in the first eXpe- ditiou 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 ot which were the bombardment and cap ture of Hilton Head. s. C.; Fort tu- laski, Ga. :; the batteries on the lower end of Morris Island, s. C.; actions near Bermuda Hundred, Va; siege ot 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 0her- 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, 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. Ii 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 ot duty. no matter how dangerous or haz' ardous the task no commanding 0ttl' cer ever criticised its conduct under tirt and it never hesitated or wavered 1T the performance of the duty which al times of awful carnage and death de volved upon it. It proudly carried its colors, state and national, to the from | in 1861, and as proudly returned then to the state in 1865, battle-scarred ant storm-beaten, baptised by the blood ot their bearers, of whom seven were killed in one engagement, never low ering or surrendering to the enemy tn, standards of their regiment.