Our First Year of Army Life

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Excerpt from Our First Year of Army Life: An Anniversary Address, Delivered to the First Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, at Their Camp Near Gaines Mills, June, 1862If any of our good friends at home would like to sit for awhile with us around our camp fire and listen to the stories of our first year of army life, they are most welcome. Only they must expect the free and easy style of talk that belongs to such a place, and also to hear a great many incidents and allusions of but little interest and sometimes of but little significance to any but ourselves. The record of the First Connecticut Artillery does not afford, especially in the first part of it, anything to gratify the demands of blood-thirsty sensation writers or readers. We have not fought a battle every day, as many of us seemed to think we would when we left home, and as many seem to think our armies ought to do in order to come up to their ideas of active service. Much of our time has been spent in camp or in forts, and affords merely quiet pictures, so to speak, of our domestic life. Still our experience has been singularly varied, and one feature of it, at least, may be instructive, as showing the effect of thorough army discipline upon volunteer troops.Our anniversary came round last June, while we were in camp near Gaines' Mills, before Richmond, and at that time I threw together from rough notes and recollections a sort of anniversary address, which occupied us two long evenings.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.