The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-08-14
THE DANDY 9TH FAMOUS IN '61
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 Each company numbered 10s, officers and men. The first enlistment in the regiment was on Aug. 21, 1861, and the regiment, 1,00S strong. was mus tered into the service of the state Sept. 8, 1861, and into the Unified States service Sept. 12, 1861, and left Connecticut for the front Sept. IT, 1861, under the command of Col. John L. Chatfield, with John M. Spei- del of this city, afterwards lieutenant colonel) as major.
 For short time the regiment was of the force guarding Washington, where it was visited and inspected by President Lincoln, but in October, 1861, it WIS attached to the first ex- petition 10 attack the southern coast, the army being under the command of Gen. T. w. Sherman, and the navy under Admiral Dupont. The expedi- ton sailed Oct. 19, 1861 from Annap- oils, Md, encountered a terrific storm of Cape Hatteras which wrecked and disabled a number of the vessels.
 On Nov. the fleet arrived off Port Royal, s. C., and on the 7th the navy bombarded Forts Beauregard and Walker in the harbor. After five .xlO necticut and Seventh Connecticut landed in small boats, took possession of Fort Walker and pushed forward on Hilton Head Island, pursuing the Confederates and capturing a. large number of them as prisoners. This was the first combined naval and army victory and caused great en- thusiasm in the North
 From this time on the regime ent was engaged almost constantly in battles, seiges and marches, being en- gagged in the seize and capture Of Fort Pulaski at the mouth of the Savannah river, the battles of Poca- taligo, S. C.. and Secessionville, s. V., near Charleston, the assault and cap ture of part of Morris Island. s. C., at the mouth of Charleston harbor, from small boats and the charge on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, July 18, 1863 In this the regiment led the charge on the sea face of the fort under the command of Col. Chatfield, who resigned the command of a bri- gade to lead his regiment and in the charge received his death wound. The regiment gained an angle in the sea face of the fort and held it for three hours, but the supports were unable to get up through the curtain of fire Gas it is now cal1ed) and 1t was obliged to retire, the regiment took . 400 men into the charge and lost 35 per cent. of them. Seven of it's color bearers who took the colors, one after another, were killed fin succession but the flag was saved. In this action Lieut.. s. s. Stevens of this city. was killed. Lieut.. Walter Fitch, of this -s+- of Co., I, and Lieut.. Kost of Go. H. were captured.
 Of the conduct of the Sixth Con- necticut in this engagement Paul H. Hayne, a Southern writer, upon the seize of Fort Wagner in the March, 1886, Southern Bivouac, says:
 '"Then a grand deed, what the oao Northmen would have called a deed o1 'derring-do was performed by men oi the ever dominant Caucasian race, the thought of which, as I write. a quarter of century after it's occurrence, here in the tranquil Indian summer, makes my heart beat and pulses throb tu- multuously. Across the narrow and fatal stretch before the fort every inch of which was swept by a hurricane o1 fire, bosom of destruction, the Sixth Connecticut, Colonel John l.. Chatf1eld charged with such undaunted resolu- ton upon the southeast salient, that they succeeded in the very face o1 | hell, one may say, in capturing 1t. What though their victory was a barren achievement? What though for three hours they were penned in no support daring to follow them Friend and foe alike now, as then, must honor and salute them as the braves of the brave.
 "The history of the war, rife with desperate conflicts, can show no more