The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-08-11

at Yorktown after a 12-mile march,
soaked to the skin from a driving rain.
On May Company G was fortunate
enough to be assigned to a transport
which was a coal barge from which soft
coal had Just been unloaded. The men
were not allowed on deck although the
matches were left open. The next morn
ing several plunges were necessary be
fore anyone could recognize his neigh
Dor. They were landed at Bermuda
Hundred and started on the campaign
for Petersburg and Richmond. AT the
Halfway House O Grady and about
ESQ others were captured from the llth
Connecticut and the remainder of the
troops retreated to Bermuda Hundred
! where the troops We're set to digging
| hreastworks clear across the peninsula
On June l the regiment started from
White House landing and on the morn
| ing of the Sd charged in the battle at
| Cold Harbor. For seven days the men
| Of the llth Connecticut and other
7 'roops lay in trenches they had dug by
| netting their canteens and using them
| or shovels with the dead and wounded
| wing on the ground in Il stencil that at
| ines was overpowerimg. Finally a flag
| # truce was recognized and the troops
| Iere allowed to bury their dead.
During this terrible time Job Long.
| now of Brattleboro, crawled along from
| he 18th Mass, of which he was a mem
| ler, and visited for two hours with
| Mr.. Fenton. Five minutes after he had
eft an officer informed Mr.. Fenton that
lis little friend had been killed. MIR
'enton erawled to where the body was
wing and, turning it over, discovered
hat it was not his friend but the bod y
# an officer. lie was so pleased that
e jumped 20 his feet and a sharpshoot
+ promptly put a bullet through his
lothes that raised a ridge across hi>
reast The following day Mr.. Long
md John Sears, the latter from the
18th Vermont, paid him a visit and m
)tiicer dubbed them the ''three lis
| Soon afterWard they were put OF
transports and sent mp the James river
It was beautiful moonlight night an,
| Lieutenant Dickinson asked Tom FLYNN
he had evcT seen Il finer moon thar
hat. Sure, replied Flynn. ''yot
ought to see the moon we have il
ireland.
On June Is a start was made fo
Petersburg and Mr.. FeutOn says tn,
hardest day 5 work he ever did was OF
he 18th of that month, when the regi
ment was depiOyed at 1 in the morn
.ng as shrmiShcr8 and was out of wa
or at 10 u clock and remained so al
lay under calling fire. After a tril
Jack to Bermuda the regiment wa
once more before Petersburg and re
manned there practically all summer
II The battle Of Aug. before that cit,
he regiment was so derimated that a
roll call that night ouiy - men ant
one captain answered to their name,
After 4 time at Fort Harrison, wher
Mr.. Fentou was one of those detailc,
5 rs headquarters guard at General Ord
headquarters, the regiment had bee
/ | recruited up to GOO men and went t
r. Broadway Landing, where it rename
until after Thanksgiving. There Nj
n Fentou east his first vote for preSiden
t and voted for Abraham Lincoln.
r They wintcred on Chaplin s farm. seH
g on and one.half miles from Richmon,
e where General L. s. Grant and Pres
$ lent Lincoln visited the troops an
It President Lincoln spoke to them frol
5 horseback.
l. On the morning of April > the l3t
t New Hampshire was sent forward an
h climbed the breastworks in front c
Richmond as skirmishers signalled thu
n the place had been evacuated. I'll
o main body promptly fell into a colum
T Of tours AMI Il mile from the city tn
r. mayor bearing white flag was me
L The column of colored troops that w;
marching forward by a shorter rout
e was halted to permit the white trooI
n to enter the city first. With the bra'
l. band of the 18th New Hampshire ;
d their head the column entered the cit
1t one portion of which was burning. III
streets were packed with colored pc
1t pie who welcomed the Union trool
IL with shouts and singing.
re Arms were stacked in the square AZ
!, with hand engines and powder II
ID troops fought and extinguished Il