The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-30
Few Live to Tell the Stories of. Their Thrilling Expert
 ences in the Civil War. OLD SOLDIERS MEET
 AT ANNUAL REUNION Organized in Bridgeport, in August, 1862, It Was Dis
 tinctively a Bridgeport : Organization.

The 18th annual reuniop of the Sec ond Connecticut Light Battery was held at Savin Rock, Saturday. At the business meeting the following officers were elected for the year. h
 President. Charles ". Scarritt; see- retary Eand treasurer, William M. Barnes; executive committee, William Burroughs Edmund Thompson. William R, French chaplain, Charles W. Ecarritt. It was voted to leave the time and place of the next reunion to thet executive committee.
 or the. 149 men who were mustered out at New Haven on August 10. 1865. but 1T are now, as far is is known llv9 ing Of this number 12 were present Or accounted for at the reunion Sat- urday afterno on.i
 The Second Connecticut Light Bat .tery was organized in the city of Bridgeport in the month of August, 1862, and was distinctiveIy a Bridge-' port Organization. It was mustered on the 10th of September, 1862, for three years. or during the war The Battery left Camp Buckingham at Seaside Park on the 18th of October, 1862, for Washington. marching as far as New York City thence by rail, and Gate. On the 18th of December follow Ing the Battery marched to Fairfax Court House and joined the Second Brigade of Gen. Cases division under the command of Gen Stoughton They received their first smell of gunpowder at this point in repelling a night att tack of Stuart's Cavalry & In the latter part of January, 1885, they were ordered to Wolf Run Shoals, where they remained until the 18th of June, guarding the defenses of Wash afngton. When the Army of the Poto- KNs1~x d Pennsylvania, thet Battery was orr dered to the Artillery Reserve under the command of Gen. Tyler. and marched by way of Frederick City and Fancy Town to Gettysbuhg, where they participated in that ever mem orable battle On the afternoon of the. : second, day of the fight, they were or dered to the left of the center where the enemy made a bold but inefectuaf attempt to break through the Union lines. The Battery was in position for 56 hours consecutive1y and portion of the time in the hercest of the fight, yet providentia11y escaped without loss of men and only three slightly wounded Notwithstanding they were under the hottest fire of the enemy s artillery, but three horses were lost aand one cannon exploded by the en- szeny's she'll
 They left Gettysburg for Frederick City on July 5th, where they encamped
 
 tfia until the 18th, when they left for Washington. reaching Camp. Barry on ,Itlae 26fh- On the 18th of August, the Battery embarked from Alexandria for New York to aid in enforcing the sdraft- After the draft in the State of 2 New York they returned to Camp Barry, remaining three months and on the 24th of January 1864. sl1ey en- parked for the Department of the Gulf, sailing from Baltimore. They remained in New Orleans until the 1st of March, when they were ordered to Brasher City, where they remained until the 7tt of June. On the 30th of July they left AIgfers for Daupt1in Island, arriv- ing there on August 3rd and parttc1- pated on the 5th in the attack on Fort Gaines. On the 10th of August, Fort Gaines having sIIrrendred they crossed and assisted in the bombardm ent of that stronghold For "A hours shot and shell poured in upon the fort from land and sea The citadel was set on fire in the night and the white flag from the parapet at early dawn told ssthem the fort was theirs.
 After service in AIgiers, New Or leans and other localities in Louisiana they finally dismounted the battery and again took transportation for Fort ] Morgan, arriving there on the 22nd of F'ebruarv. On-the 18th, they sailed for Barrancas. where they remained until the 11th of March, marching from that place to Pensacolass where they re- naained until the 10th of March, when they commenced the march to Blake ley through the Black Swamp. Alter crossing Pine Bear Creek, they came upon a rebel brigade under command Of Gen. Clanton. which they captured with upwards Of 100 prisoners. After visiting Pollard, which place was found to have been evacuated they struck the stage road to BIake4ey, for aging on the way. On the rnbrning Of the End of April they encountered rebel slzirn7fshers ii the vicinity of Blake- ley and they were pursued to their fertIhcakIona.
 T1le Union lines were gradually. drawn Gtoeer until the 9th Of April