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Research trip blog, looking at how an artillery unit that formed at Wesleyan University in Middleton, Connecticut as the 4th CT Volunteer Infantry documented its war history as well as learning more about my great-great-grandfather, a member of the unit from May of 1861 until September of 1865.

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Tue Jul 28
The dedication page of the Samuel Proal Hatfield Photo Album, Special Reserves, Wesleyan University. I am deeply grateful to Wesleyan for allowing me access to these materials; this image and the four others are their property, used here by permission. The text reads: WE ARE COMING FATHER ABRAHAM HOW WE ANSWERED THE CALL PASS IT DOWN That our children’s children may see with their eyes as we saw with our eyes, the scenes and places of the great War for the Union. Lest we and they forget. Abraham Lincoln issued the first all for three-year service, May 1861. 42,00 men, The 4th Conn. Infantry was the first regiment in the U.S. to be mustered in under that call, May 22, 1861. Designation changed to 1st Conn. Artillery Jan. 9, 1862. As such served through the war. Mustered out Sept. 25, 1865. This volume shows part of what we saw. To my comrades of the First Connecticut Artillery and children. S.P. Hatfield Late Major, 1st Conn. Artillery

The dedication page of the Samuel Proal Hatfield Photo Album, Special Reserves, Wesleyan University.

I am deeply grateful to Wesleyan for allowing me access to these materials; this image and the four others are their property, used here by permission.

The text reads:

WE ARE COMING FATHER ABRAHAM

HOW WE ANSWERED THE CALL

PASS IT DOWN

That our children’s children may see with their eyes as we saw with our eyes, the scenes and places of the great War for the Union. Lest we and they forget.

Abraham Lincoln issued the first all for three-year service, May 1861. 42,00 men, The 4th Conn. Infantry was the first regiment in the U.S. to be mustered in under that call, May 22, 1861. Designation changed to 1st Conn. Artillery Jan. 9, 1862. As such served through the war. Mustered out Sept. 25, 1865.

This volume shows part of what we saw. To my comrades of the First Connecticut Artillery and children. S.P. Hatfield Late Major, 1st Conn. Artillery

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