New Britain herald., 1922-12-27

'S' 'H' i'upliot tIuTCn Ant
 found the New Britain, National bnnl
 on the. church site. He called nt tn,
 soldiers monument to see his nam,
 inscribed there, looked over the cit. , hall and post office and visited hi : nephew, William l. Callendar at 2'
 West Pearl street E NY . The history of Mir. Calendar company, Co. G, Sixth. Connecticu Volunteer Infantry is as follows, History of the Regiment
 Written by Charles K. Caldwell, late
 sergeant of Co. r, Sixth Connecticu
 Volunteers.
 The Sixth Regiment, Connecticut
 Volunteers, was organized August
 1881. under the leadership of Colonel :. John l.. Chatfield, and was the third , regiment furnished by the state ol Connecticut under the first call of the |, president for volunteers for three years. It's companies were organized
 in the following localities: Company A, Putnam; Company E, Hartford; Companies c, r and K, New Haven; : Company D, Stamford; Company F, Waterbury: Company G, New Britain; Companies Fl and I, Bridgeport. It encamped at Oyster Point, New Ha- ven, and was mustered into the Unit
 ed States service September 18th.
 On September IT, 1861, the regi- ment, numbering 1,O0S officers and
 men, left New Haven for the seat of
 war and arrived at Washington, D. O., I'September 18th. where 1t encamped on Meridian Hill and was brigaded
 with the Seventh Connecticut volun.
 teers and the Third and Fourth
 New Hampshire Volunteers under the l command of Brigadier- General H. G. Wright, afterwards commander of the
 Sixth Army Corps.
 The 20 days of camp life here was
 a period of unceasing drill and dis
 cipline, only broken by a visit to the
 camp of Abraham Lincoln, president
 of the United States,e upon a tour of
 inspection.
 i The First Battle.
 l October s, 1861, the regiment left
 Washington for Annapolis, Maryland,
 where it joined the forces then be-
 ing organized under General w. T. sherman of the army, and Admiral 1 Dupont of the navy, for an expedi- tion to the Southern coast On Oc- tober 18th, this expedition being then the largest land and naval expedition of modern ages, in number of vessels and troops, sailed from Annapolis, en- countering a terrific storm off Cape Hatteras, which disabled and wrecked |aanumber of the vessels and arrived at Port Royal $. C., November 5. On the seventh of November the bom- bardment of Forts Walker and Beau regard in the s1harbor. and the battle between the Union and Confederate naval forces, being the first naval en- gagement of the war, took place in | full view of the regiment which was in the advance to land as soon as the | forts were reduced. The engagement | lasted five hours and at its close, the | regiment. with the Seventh Connecti- cut Volunteers, landed in small boats and taking possession of the forts, i'm mediately pushed forward after the flying enemy, and drove them from the island, capturing a number of prisoners.
 Only Survivor
 For some months the time was oc- cupied in building Qualifications and in making raids upon the surrounding country, in which large quantity of supplies was captured
 Suffer Hardships
 In January, 1862, the regiment took part in an expedition to capture Sa- Georgia. The attempt was a failure, and in consequence of the regiment being kept on small over- crowded vessel, 16 days without cooked food, with no vegetables, with hard tack full of vermin, and water that was stored in kerosene oil barrels , and without sufficient room on the vessel for all the men to lie down at once, spotted fever broke out in the i regiment and many lives were un- I lost.
 In March, 1882 the regiment was $ part Of the force engaged in the { 'iege and capture of Fort Pulaski, on ( savannah river Ga.. it's more partic- { liar operations in the siege being the ( construction and maintainance of a S battery on Jones Island which was \ between the fort and the city of Sa- S for the double purpose of f preventing re-inforcements reaching I he fort and to prevent the rebel iron II lad Atlanta" from passing down the f iver. As the island was covered with water at high tide, the duty was aborious as well as dangerous, and i, many of the men suffered from d isease and hardship. On April Il, S62, took part in the battle of Seces- fl he regiment returned to- pleasant tl uarters on Dawfuski island. f, In June, 1862, the regiment took W art in the expedition against Charles f, on, s. C., under General Hunter, a 1arching over Jones Island and a hffering many hardships, being three avs without food, as the wagon S, -ains were cut off, but finally arriv- N lg at James Island, where, on the o 9th of June they were engaged in a sirmish and on the 18th of June, J. S62, tok part in the battle of Seces- m onville, s. C., after which they went rt Ito camp at Beaufort, S. C., and per al 'rmed picket and guard duty until ctober 22, 1882 when they were en- Si aged in the battle of Pocotaligo, S. m :, in which the regiment suffered it's al rst large loss in battle, the casual re es being 3S killed and wounded D mong the severely wounded were bs olonel Chatfield, who was then com tv anding the brigade, and Lieutenant it olonel John Speidel commanding R e regiment. w
 Remarkable Feat of Tho following named officers of the w giment were honorably mentioned m r bravery in this battle by the com ar