hearty cheering, and enrolled their names. As the result of these popular demonstrations, enlisting, and persuading others to enlist, became the business of the hour. Love of country asserted itself once more above every personal and partisan feeling.

The first regiment to feel the effect of this new awakening of the war spirit was the Fourteenth, to which Norwich contributed as follows:

COMPANY E.
Captain.

WILLIAM H. TUBBS.

First Lieutenant.

MORTON F. HALE,

Promoted Brigade Commissary of Subsistence, December, 1862.

Sergeants.

JAMES R. NICKELS,

Promoted Captain.

FREDERICK E. SCHALK,

Promoted First Lieutenant.

HENRY C. MILLER.

In Company K, Lieutenant James B. Coit, afterwards promoted Captain and Major; H. P. Goddard, Sergeantmajor, afterwards promoted Captain; and Lieutenant George C. Ripley, together with about forty enlisted men. The regiment left camp in Hartford August twenty-fifth, and without being allowed time for necessary instruction, was ordered at once into the hard-fought battle of Antietam, September, 1862. Here it suffered severely, and though a new regiment, bore itself with great merit. It had been hurried by forced marches to the battle-field,

without knapsacks, or regimental baggagé, and was thirtysix hours under fire at Antietam, with scarcely anything to eat or drink during all this time. From this time onward it was kept in almost constantly active service, and was emphatically a fighting regiment. At the battle of Fredericksburg it continued in the Second Corps, which, with the Ninth Corps, formed the right grand division under General Sumner. It was the only Connecticut regiment warmly engaged, and was in the division that opened the battle. After making three separate charges under severe artillery fire, it fell back only when the division was retired, bearing with it the body of the brave Lieutenant-colonel Perkins, who had been severely wounded. The aggregate loss of the regiment was one hundred and twenty-two. At the battle of Chancellorsville the Fourteenth was actively engaged, fighting with great coolness, its brief experience having made it among the most reliable of Connecticut regiments; here its losses were again heavy, and the splendid regiment which left the State August, 1862, ten hundred and fifteen strong, was already reduced, by reason of its constant fighting, to two hundred and nineteen men in service. At Gettysburg, July, 1863, the conduct of the regiment is spoken of in the highest terms. It was one of the most trying battles in which it had been engaged, yet one in which it distinguished itself by a number of effective charges, capturing five regimental flags and over forty prisoners, and sustaining a loss in the aggregate of sixty-six. In the Virginia campaign under General Grant it also shared, participating in the terrible battles of the Wilderness, and a Spottsylvania winning new laurels, losing here a brave Norwich officer, Lieutenant Schalk. At the battle of Reams' Station, August, 1864, Captain Nickels was killed. Both these young men were from Norwich, and had served with credit to themselves and the country for which they had

cheerfully periled their lives. James B. Coit, who was specially mentioned for his gallantry, was also wounded, and thus forced to resign, having been promoted from a First Lieutenancy to be Major, and afterwards was brevetted Brigadier-general. The regiment was present at the surrender of Lee, and was mustered out May, 1865, with the consciousness of having had a severe service, and of having won its proud title, the " brave Fourteenth."

In the next three regiments of the six that the Governor had called for under the President's proclamation of July first, Norwich had no official representation, and therefore no special local interest. At the patriotic mass meeting of the county nothing had contributed more to arouse throughout the town an ambition to maintain its eminence for devotion to the National Cause, than the announcement that orders had been issued for a New London County Regiment to rendezvous at the Fair Grounds near the city. It was the first regiment that was mustered into service from Norwich. For this reason the Eighteenth Regiment was regarded by our citizens as peculiarly their own. The five county companies were recruited in town, and the costly colors, National and State, were the gift of the Norwich ladies. The roster of officers of this favorite regiment from the town was as follows, and accounts for the deep interest our community took in it from the beginning of its existence clear through its eventful history :

Colonel.

WILLIAM G. ELY,

Previously Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sixth Infantry, subsequently brevetted Brigadier-general.

Quartermaster.

DWIGHT W. HAKES,

Afterwards Captain, and Brevet Major.

Surgeon.

CHARLES M. CARLETON.

Sergeant-major.

JOSEPH P. ROCKWELL,

Promoted Adjutant and Captain.

Quartermaster-sergeant.

WILLIAM CARRUTHERS,
Promoted First Lieutenant.

Commissary-sergeant.

HENRY HOvey.

COMPANY A.

Captain.

HENRY C. DAVIS.

Lieutenants.

ADAM H. LINDSLEY, JAMES D. HIGGINS.

COMPANY C.

Captain.

ISAAC H. BROMLEY.

First Lieutenant.

SAMUEL T. C. MERWIN,

Promoted Captain.

Second Lieutenant.

HENRY F. COWLES,

Promoted First Lieutenant.

COMPANY E.

Captain.

ISAAC W. HAKES, JR.

First Lieutenant.

FREDERICK A. PALMER.

Promoted Captain.

COMPANY F.

Captain.

HENRY PEALE.

Promoted Major and Lieutenant-colonel.

Second Lieutenant.

JOHN A. FRANCIS.

COMPANY I.

Captain.

SAMUEL R. KNAPP.

First Lieutenant.

JOHN H. MORRISON,
Promoted Captain.

Second Lieutenant.

MARTIN V. B. TIFFANY,

Promoted Captain.

Of the enlisted men, over two hundred and fifty are credited to Norwich on the rolls of the Adjutant-general. The colors were publicly presented to the regiment in the after