Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-15

bration of the anniversary of the.
 mastering in to the United States ser
 vice of E Company, Second regiment
 Connecticut Volunteers, fifty years
 ago. and which was the first military
 organization to leave New London to
 defend the flag in the civil war. This
 company was mustered in on the 22d
 of April, 1861. and mustered out Au-
 gust of the same year. The com
 pany was composed of eighty-on off,
 cers and men, and about one quarter
 of the number survive, and it is be-
 lieved that fourteen of these survivors
 will be in the parade in their honor,
 next Wednesday, afternoon. Although
 many of the boys returned home only
 to enlist in other companies ana
 serve to the end of the civil strife.
 The whole city was permeated with
 patriotism in the dark days of Sixty
 one, when the battle for the nation B
 life begun, and the famous meeting
 in the old courthouse, when President
 Lincoln called to arms, was a lesson
 of patriotism that was instilled into
 the school pupils of the time. It was
 then when the boys of this company
 and they were but boys, the majority
 of them still in their teens, who en-
 listed for three months and with the
 expectation that the rebellion would
 be suppressed within that period; !;
 that was the service called for by the
 president, but just as cheerful and
 patriotic response would have been
 made if the call had been for three
 years, as many of these same men did
 serve for an even longer time.
 The city will do honor to that pa
 triotic occasion and to the brave boys
 who were willing to risk life fer coun
 try. next Wednesday. There will be
 parade of the regulars from the isl-
 and forts, with band, and the local
 military companies, and the surviv-
 ing members will have prominent po-
 sition ill the procession. Just after
 the parade ev-Gov. Thomas M. Waller
 who was fourth sergeant of the com
 pany, will entertain his comrades at dinner in the Thames club. In the
 evening there will be patriotic ser : vices in the armory.
 While Rifle Company was the first to leave New London to go to the front, it was not the first military company to enter the service of the federal government in the civil war. On February 20, two days before E company was mustered into the ser to a telegram from Secretary of War Cameron, ordered the New London City Guards to garrison Fort Trum bull and they did garrison duty there for some time, and until relieved by regular troops. although some of them joined E company. These troops were paid from the national treasury and were considered as being in the na- tional service. although were never formally mustered into the service est to give & list of the officers and men of the New London City Guards which was the local company of the Third regiment, state militia.
 The officers were Captain Nathan Frankau, afterwards captain in the Q ~.--S lieutenant. Henry l.. Scheliter. captain in the Thirteenth Connecticut; sec ond lieutenant, Henry Feldmar; breyet second lieutenant, Christian Golf, cap tain Twenty sixth Connecticut: first sergeant, Henry stolI. afterwards ma other sergeants were Joseph Kopp Jacob Liricus and Alexander Cohn the latter serving through the war The drummer was William Goodine and the fifer was Benjamin Daniels The privates were: Robert Adams John Alderman, John c. Butler, John D. Butler Adolph Buckler, Isaac Ba- con, Charles s. Betts, Robert B. Chris tian, Peter Imineh, Joseph Franz, Fer dinand Feldman. William R. Fox. Henry Golf, Christian Goss, Adam
 Grier, Yabor Greene, Jacob Hammel James Harris. Henry E. Holloway, Oscar F. Hewitt. H. P. R. Holt. George Cables, Julius Hull, Charles Lehman Albert G. Leeds, John Mulligan, Hall is Marsh, Frank Mitteen. Samuel Monroe, A. D. Mccall, John Norman Charles H. Potter, Edwin A. Packer George H. Phillips. William H. Rog- CTS, William Robinson, Charles Sera- fin. Conrad Schledter, Simdn Smith Nathaniel Shene. James H. Stepbins Englebert Sauter, George Titus Charles Wilkes, William ~F Warren | John Welch, Martin B. Waldo.
 The only survivors of the command | that went to Fort Trumbull at that | time are John c. Butler, Albert G Leeds and Englebert Sauter. Mr l Leeds served as sergeant in thf 1 Twenty first Connecticut, and MT ] Sauter as sergeant in the Thirteenth Connecticut.
 l The New London City Guards or 1 ganized November r, 1853 and Jo- l speh A. Mower, afterwards major general of volunteers, was it's firs' l third lieutenant. The only surviving 1 constituent member is Hiram F. Chap 1 pell, who was second lieutenant of E I company. Second regiment, and sue
 ceeded Captain Frankau as command 1 CT of Company D, Twelfth Connect 1 cut.
 1 The first te enlist at that memorable 1 courthouse meeting was William W l Perkins. of the Shaw manor, now the 1 home of the New London County His 1 torical society, and who was born 1T | .kz1