THE

ANNALS OF NORWICH

NEW LONDON COUNTY, CONNECTICUT

IN THE

GREAT REBELLION OF 1861-65

BY

MALCOLM MCG. DANA

PASTOR OF THE SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, NORWICH, CONN.

NORWICH, CONN.

J. H. JEWETT AND COMPANY

1873

TO THE

BRAVE MEN OF NORWICH,

WHO, UNDER THE IMPULSE OF A NOBLE PATRIOTISM,

WENT FORTH TO DEFEND THEIR

IMPERILED COUNTRY,

IS THIS

Memorial

OF THEIR SUFFERINGS, ACHIEVEMENTS, AND TRIUMPHANT VALOR,

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

THE

'HE following Memorial history is intended to present the military record of those who went from Norwich to serve in the Union armies or fleets during the war of the rebellion. The writer's design has been to give with this, some account of what was done at home, during the same period, by the citizens, and also by the town in its corporate capacity, for the action of both is entitled to honorable mention in a volume like this. The narrative is surely worth preserving, and is one too, which may interest not only us, but those who shall occupy our places hereafter.

The annals of the town during so exciting a series of years as that covered by the war, the sacrifices made by the people, the heroes furnished for the field of conflict, the martyrs who laid down their lives on the country's altar, all this is of historic significance, and constitutes a story to which none of us can be indifferent. Such memorial records, not only perpetuate the names of those whose honorable deeds conferred a real glory upon their native towns, but serve to inspire in after generations a reverence for truth and justice, and a desire to emulate the brave actions of those who have preceded them.

So many years have elapsed since the war closed, that the remembrance of many facts and incidents that should