Produced by Chris Logan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE COUNTY REGIMENT [Illustration: Governor Buckingham] THE COUNTY REGIMENT A SKETCH OF THE SECOND REGIMENT OF CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER HEAVY ARTILLERY, ORIGINALLY THE NINETEENTH VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, IN THE CIVIL WAR BY DUDLEY LANDON VAILL LITCHFIELD COUNTY UNIVERSITY CLUB MCMVIII Copyright, 1908, by DUDLEY L. VAILL PAR AVANCE This volume is one of a series published under the auspices of the Litchfield County University Club, and in accordance with a proposition made to the club by one of its members, Mr. Carl Stoeckel, of Norfolk, Connecticut. HOWARD WILLISTON CARTER, Secretary. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Governor Buckingham _Frontispiece_ Rev. Hiram Eddy _facing page_ 7 Presentation of Colors, September 10th, 1862 " 10 The first encampment in Virginia " 14 Fort Ellsworth, near Alexandria, May, 1863 " 19 In the Defences. Guard mount " 23 General Sedgwick " 26 The first battle " 35 Colonel Wessells " 47 Colonel Kellogg " 61 Colonel Mackenzie " 76 Colonel Hubbard " 84 Monument at Arlington " 98 PREFATORY For those who dwell within its borders, or whose ancestral roots are bedded among its hills, the claims of Litchfield County to distinction are many and of many kinds. In these latter days it has become notable as the home of certain organizations of unique character and high purpose, which flourish under circumstances highly exceptional, and certainly no less highly appreciated. It is as part of the work of one of these that there is commemorated in this volume an organization of an earlier day, one distinctively of the county, in no way unique in its time, but of the highest purpose--the regiment gathered here for the national defence in the Civil War.