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diff --git a/old/60341-0.txt b/old/60341-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 75f7164..0000000 --- a/old/60341-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2979 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of A History of the Second Division Naval -Militia Connecticut National Guard, by Daniel D. Bidwell - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: A History of the Second Division Naval Militia Connecticut National Guard - -Author: Daniel D. Bidwell - -Release Date: September 22, 2019 [EBook #60341] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF 2ND DIV. NAVAL MILITIA *** - - - - -Produced by Richard Tonsing and The Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - - - - - A HISTORY - of the - SECOND DIVISION NAVAL MILITIA - CONNECTICUT NATIONAL GUARD - - - _By_ - DANIEL D. BIDWELL - - - Hartford, Conn. - 1911 - - - - - Copyrighted 1911 - - By - DANIEL D. BIDWELL - - - The Smith-Linsley Company - Hartford, Conn. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - Dedicated - to - All Friends - of the - Naval Militia - Connecticut National Guard - - - - - SLIGHTLY ADAPTED - - - “Here’s to the land that gave us birth, - Here’s to her smiling skies, - Here’s to her Tars, the best on earth, - Here’s to the flag she flies.” - -[Illustration] - - - - - CONTENTS - - - PAGE - - Before the Launching 1890 to 1896 11 - - The Launching 1896 13 - - - THE LOG - - ❦ - - Course 1, The Cincinnati 1896 16 - - Course 2, The Maine 1897 18 - - Course 3, The War 1898 21 - - Course 4, The Prairie 1899 25 - - “Dewey Day” September 30, 1899 26 - - Course 5, The Prairie Again 1900 32 - - Course 6, Camp Newton 1901 34 - - Course 7, The Panther 1902 38 - - Course 8, At Niantic 1903 42 - - Course 9, The Hartford 1904 46 - - Course 10, The Columbia 1905 51 - - Course 11, The Minneapolis 1906 55 - - Course 12, Again the Prairie 1907 58 - - Course 13, And Again the Prairie 1908 62 - - Course 14, The Machias 1909 65 - - Course 15, The Louisiana 1910 66 - - ❦ - - (For the Future to Reveal) - - Course 16, 1911 - - Course 17, 1912 - - Course 18, 1913 - - Course 19, 1914 - - Course 20, 1915 - - ❦ - - Appendix A 68 - - Appendix B 70 - - - - - LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS - - ❦ - - - PAGE - - Frontispiece—First Commanding Officer of the Division, Lieutenant - Felton Parker - - Captain Louis F. Middlebrook 10 - - Division Boat Race in Boston Harbor 24 - - Lieutenant-Commander Lyman Root 26 - - Camp Parker 36 - - Boat Crew at Charles Island 41 - - Furling Sail on the U. S. S. Hartford 46 - - Lieutenant Howard J. Bloomer 49 - - Lieutenant-Commander Robert D. Chapin 53 - - Lieutenant Carroll C. Beach 56 - - Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Charles L. Hogan 59 - - Ensign Frank H. Burns 65 - - Lieutenant William G. Hinckley 67 - - Tailpiece, Division Pin 76 - - - - - JACOB’S LADDER - - ❦ - - - Founding of the Division April 29, 1896 - - Duty on the U. S. S. Maine July 10–16, 1897 - - War Company Mustered In June 15, 1898 - - “Dewey Day” Parade September 30, 1899 - - First Battalion Field Day May 23, 1900 - - Salute to the New Century January 1, 1901 - - Personal Escort of President Roosevelt in Yale - Bi-Centennial Parade October 16, 1901 - - First Annual Indoor Meet February 21, 1902 - - Camp Parker Dedicated July 4, 1902 - - In Army and Navy Maneuvers, August 30 to September 6, 1902 - - Beat Champions in Eleven-Inning Game of Indoor - Baseball March 11, 1903 - - Duty at Camp Reynolds August 22–29, 1903 - - Re-stocking of the Library November 18, 1903 - - Elfrida in Hartford Waters June 19–25, 1904 - - On the U. S. S. Hartford September 6–13, 1904 - - Indoor Baseball Champions for Season 1904–1905 - - Hampton Roads August 1–6, 1907 - - In Bridge Parade October 8, 1908 - - Wall-Scaling Champions April 29, 1909 - - First Memorial Sunday June 13, 1909 - - Off Bermuda July 26–29, 1910 - - - FIRST COMMANDING OFFICER - -[Illustration: - - LIEUTENANT FELTON PARKER -] - - - - - FOREWORD - - ❦ - - -That the Naval Division is worthy of a history in enduring form is -undeniable: that it is worthy of a historian of more philosophy and -patience is also undeniable. But if the principle is correct that “any -weather is better than none,” as Mark Twain, who once produced a -treatise on navigation which he called “Following the Equator,” -summarized his opinion of the elements, then it may be correct to allege -that this history is better than no attempt. From newspaper files which -have long lain in unhallowed dust, from scrap-books long undisturbed, -from orders and records and literature which has received no generic -name and from the lips of survivors of a glorious but ancient day the -historian has drawn the facts which follow. The research work has been -difficult and a task of no mean proportion, as well, and the work of -arrangement and assimilation has not been inconsiderable, and there is -reasonable excuse for any errors which may appear in the printed result. -For these the historian begs indulgence. He desires to add that the task -has been a pleasant one in spite of the difficulty and that his only -regret is that a history-more adequate is not the result. - -In any case the trail has been blazed, or, to use a more appropriate -metaphor, the channel has been buoyed for him who is destined to produce -a suitable volume when the Second Division shall have arrived at its -twenty-fifth anniversary. That the command may continue to prosper and -that it may ever be as efficient and successful as in its most honorable -days is the earnest wish of its chronicler. - -Thanks are expressed to Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Charles L. Hogan and -Quartermaster Palmer (the division librarian) of the actives and to -Victor F. Morgan, historian of the Veteran Association, for aid given in -the collating of material for this little volume. Thanks are also given -to Captain Louis F. Middlebrook and Mr. Fred E. Bosworth. - - HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, June 28, 1911. - -[Illustration: - - CAPTAIN LOUIS F. MIDDLEBROOK - - THE FOUNDER OF THE DIVISION -] - - - - - BEFORE THE LAUNCHING - - ❦ - - -In the early nineties the so-called, and perhaps miscalled movement for -“Naval Reserves” came into Connecticut. In 1893 it gathered shape in New -Haven and on the petition of Edward G. Buckland and forty-four others. -General Edward E. Bradley of New Haven, adjutant-general under Governor -Luzon B. Morris, issued an order for the formation of the First -Division, Naval Militia, C. N. G. In November of that year a division -was organized, a month pregnant with meaning in the annals of the naval -establishment of Connecticut, for it marked the institution of a branch -destined to endure and to be a just cause of pride to the state of Hull, -Gideon Welles and Foote. - -The formation of the First Division followed barely two years after that -of the First Naval Battalion in New York state. Massachusetts had -preceded the Empire State by more than fifteen months, and Rhode Island -by about a year, and when the command in New Haven organized, the states -which boasted naval militia organizations were Massachusetts, Rhode -Island, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, California, -Pennsylvania and Illinois. The total strength of the naval militia in -these states was about 2,100 officers and enlisted men. - -It was in March, 1890, that the first command of the kind appeared in -Massachusetts, and in the following May that the Naval Battalion, -Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, pioneer among “Naval Reserve” -organizations in the United States, was organized. From that germ has -grown a system which now includes naval militia bodies in twenty-three -states and has on the rosters between seven thousand and eight thousand -officers and enlisted men; and has recorded several times that number of -alumni who are in part trained for the country’s hour of need on salt -water. - -Interesting stories about the First Division of New Haven came to the -ears of many lovers of salt water in Hartford. Stories they were of the -splendid success of that crack command, the good times which the fun -lovers of the company enjoyed, the good fellowship shown, the capacity -for hard technical work and the growing esteem in which it was held both -by the adjutant-general’s office and the Navy Department at Washington. -And so it was that a little knot of similar spirits in Hartford was -formed, men with fondness for yachting on the Sound or with patriotic -pride in the Navy who gravitated together after a nucleus had been -developed. - -The proposition for a naval company was received with a diversity of -opinion. One military man of ripe experience raked it fore and aft in -print, but in after years he discovered the error of his range finder -and became a firm friend of the command in fair weather and foul. His -memory long remained green with the company. - - ❦ - - - - - THE LAUNCHING - - ❦ - - -It is recorded that most of the originators of this movement were -employees of the Pope Manufacturing Company or were members of the -Hartford Canoe Club, and that some were luminaries in a social body -known to fame as The Bachelors, but this last declaration is disputed. -It was on March 14, 1896, that an application to Governor O. Vincent -Coffin of Middletown, Commander-in-chief of the Connecticut National -Guard, for the establishing of another division was drafted. The paper -was guardedly circulated by Louis F. Middlebrook, then a member of the -Brigade Signal Corps, to whom in large measure the credit of the -subsequent birth of the command is due. On April 11 the application was -presented to His Excellency together with details as to the cost of -equipment, armory quarters and like matters. Just eighteen days later -the governor’s consent was signified in an order which Adjutant-General -Charles P. Graham issued for the formation of the Second Division, Naval -Battalion, Connecticut National Guard. That date is entered in the -division’s log as its natal day. - -On the evening of May 12, Commander Edward V. Reynolds of the battalion -and officers from the division in New Haven materialized in the even -then ancient armory on Elm Street, never before that night used for any -naval object. A division was formed and officers were elected as -follows: - -Lieutenant, Felton Parker. - -Lieutenant, Junior Grade, Lyman B. Perkins. - -Ensigns, Louis F. Middlebrook and Robert H. C. Kelton. - -Mr. Parker was a graduate of Annapolis, who had left the Navy at the -reduction in 1882, and was at the time in the employ of the Pope -Manufacturing Company in the patent department. Mr. Perkins had -graduated in 1881 from Annapolis as a cadet engineer. He was a general -agent for the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company. -Mr. Middlebrook was in the same company’s employ and possessed large -executive ability. Mr. Kelton was a mechanical engineer in the employ of -the Hartford Rubber Works. He had been a member of Division C of the -First Naval Battalion of Massachusetts. - -The enlisted men were forty in number. Their names follow: - - Alden, H. W. - Baxter, G. S. - Beale, G. W. - Bevins, V. L. - Bissell, H. G. - Bosworth, F. E. - Burnett, A. E. - Burnham, P. D.[1] - Caswell, L. S. - Cheney, T. S.[1] - Cochran, L. B. - Crowell, E. H. - Cuntz, H. F. - Fairfield, E. J. - Field, E. B. - Field, F. E. - Gilbert, E. R. - Harlow, M. P. - Heymann, H. B. - Hunt, B. A. - Ingalls, F. C. - Larkum, H. H. - Larkum, W. N. - Maxim, H. P. - Miller, G. P. - Miller, H. I. - Morgan, J. H. - Morrell, D. S. - Newell, J. L. - Northam, R. C. - Osgood, W. J. - Rice, C. D. - Root, Lyman - Stevens, H. - Walsh, J. G. - Wightman, A. H. - Williams, C. C. - Wilson, L. B. - Winslow, F. G. - Woodward, C. S. - -Footnote 1: - - Deceased. - -The division was the armory’s baby and the sailor uniform and the sailor -drill were observed with the greatest of kindly interest; and, by the -way, that interest survives to this day. - -By the middle of June the company was in fairish shape in regard to -uniform and equipment, but was shy of flat caps. On the evening of June -24 the first petty officers were appointed, the selections being awaited -with the keenest curiosity. The appointees were: - -First Class—Boatswain’s Mate, Daniel S. Morrell; Gunner’s Mate, Louis B. -Wilson. - -Second Class—Boatswain’s Mate, Edward H. Crowell; Gunner’s Mate, Walter -L. Meek; Quartermasters, Thomas S. Cheney and Edwin R. Gilbert. - -Third Class—Gunner’s Mate, Charles D. Rice; Coxswains, Robert C. -Northam, Frank H. Peltier and Herman F. Cuntz, and Bugler Herbert G. -Bissell. - -On the same June evening, orders were read to stand by for the -division’s first cruise. That duty was on the U. S. S. Cincinnati, a -protected cruiser. - - ❦ - - - - - COURSE ONE - ❦ - THE CINCINNATI - - -At 6:45 Saturday morning, July 11, the division to the number of -forty-six entrained for New Haven and by 8 o’clock was on board the -Cincinnati, as she lay off the breakwater. An hour later the cruiser -weighed anchor and headed down the Sound, landing the divisions of the -battalion on Gardiner’s Island, where they went into camp. Till late -Sunday evening it was hard work and plenty of it, but the mettle of the -division was shown in the test. Part of Sunday evening was spent in -“hustling ice,” as one member expressed it in a letter. Near by were -naval militiamen from Rhode Island and New York. - -Monday morning found the division embarking for the Cincinnati, on which -instruction was given during the day in gun, fire and collision drills. -For the great majority of the men it was their first real experience in -work on a warship, and the novelty and excitement were fascinating. The -following day there was drill in pulling boats with the new coxswains on -their mettle. - -A couple of days more of life in camp and on the Cincinnati with good -weather did much towards starting the men toward man-o’-war form, or so -some of them began to think. Tanned faces, pipes and plug tobacco came -into full evidence. For some it was, perhaps, a picnic in the open salt -air, but an outing in which discipline was strictly preserved and much -practical information was acquired. - -Thursday morning reveille was sounded at Camp McAdoo at 5 o’clock and -simultaneously rain began to fall. After mess the battalion struck the -tents, turned to on camp gear and transferred nine boatloads from the -island to the Cincinnati. Most of the men were in water to their waists. -Between the fresh and the salt they were not incompletely drenched, but -their hearts were gay and when the boats were hove up they tailed on the -falls with a will. - -In New Haven there was a short street parade and when, in the Meadow -Street Armory, the First Division boys saluted and cheered the Second, -the tour of duty was pronounced to be a glorious success. On the station -platform in Hartford on the arrival of the Second Division that evening -was a motley of fathers and mothers, kid brothers, best girls and other -landlubbers, all eager to welcome the home-faring tin tars. The men fell -in on the platform and gave this highly original cheer: - - “Hi, ye-ke, hi! Ree, Ree, Ree! - Naval Battalion, C. N. G. - Second Division.” - -This may sound at this distant day like a rather slender battle cry, but -the boys of the division ranked it with the “Brek-e-Ke-Kex” of the Yale -Gridiron. - -The historian admits giving undue prominence to that tour of duty, but -begs indulgence on the ground that it was the division’s first service -on salt water. - - ❦ - - - - - COURSE TWO - ❦ - THE MAINE - - -In a few months the division was carefully recruited and when the drill -season started it was little effort for jack o’ the dust to report a -tidy sum in the treasury. The division parlor was artistically -decorated. Along the frieze was painted a stretch of blue water of dipsy -hue on which was developed some of the most startling advances in -shipbuilding. A craft of the time of Hiero, a Roman galley, a Viking -ship, a French frigate of the sixteenth century, a warship of -Revolutionary days, one of the time of Hull and then the battleship -Indiana were pictured. In a way the series traced the development of sea -power. - -The months of that drill season wore by pleasantly, the boys at work -mainly at infantry, for somehow in those days the real province of naval -militiamen was not clearly lined out, but with a bit of single-stick -work and some signalling, and when the end of the season arrived most of -the men were well acquainted with the work which had been laid out. - -It was on the battleship Maine that the yearly lessons afloat were -learned. The battleship Texas had been assigned for the duty, but it -became necessary to dry dock her for repairs, and her sister ship took -her place. Ensign Louis F. Middlebrook with Boatswain’s Mate Crowell, -Quartermaster Wightman, Coxswains Osgood and Meek and Seamen Doran, -Mather, J. Morgan Wells, Gilbert and Baxter constituted the baggage -detail, which sailed from the steamboat landing at 7:30 on the morning -of Saturday, July 17, on the tug J. Warren Coulston for Fisher’s Island. - -The detail pitched camp on rising ground in the rear of the Hotel -Munnatawket, not far from the site of the battalion’s camp some five -years later. - -The Maine lay at anchor in Fisher’s Island Sound. The remainder of the -division went by rail to New Haven on the following Monday morning and -sailed for the island on the steamer Richard Law. The two divisions with -the engineer branch and the staff made the battalion nearly 140 strong. - -Captain Sigsbee was in command of the ship, the same officer who was in -command when the tragedy in the harbor of Havana happened seven months -later. His face became familiar to most of our men, as did also that of -Lieutenant Wainwright, executive officer at the time of the explosion, -and when that tragedy came the horror had a personal as well as a -patriotic interest for many members of the Second Division, who -remembered by name and face many a man in the ship’s complement. - -Most of the work was at Camp Long or in small boats, but not a little -was on the ship, where gun drill was among the most interesting of the -branches. A lecture on the Whitehead torpedo was a feature of the -curriculum. - -One afternoon during the tour of duty on the Maine, the signal squads of -the First and the Second Divisions met in a contest for a trophy cup and -the squad from the Second won. The winning team included Quartermasters -Cheney and Wightman and Seamen Bosworth and V. Morgan. - -It is interesting to hark back to the Maine days and to record that a -racing cutter crew was evolved and that it received some, if not much, -instruction and encouragement from men on the Maine. Out of the mist of -that week it is recorded that this crew was made up of these oarsmen: -First, Seaman Baxter; Second, Quartermaster Wightman; Third, Coxswain -Osgood; Fourth, Seaman Wells; Fifth, Gunner’s Mate Root; Sixth, Seaman -Havens; Seventh, Seaman Gilbert; Eighth, Boatswain’s Mate Morrell; -Ninth, Coxswain Northam; Tenth, Seaman Ingalls; Eleventh, Gunner’s Mate -Cuntz, and Twelfth, Seaman J. Morgan. Without experience the crew -contested with the crack twelve of the New Haven Division and was beaten -only by three-quarters of a boat length. - -The Hartford Division returned on the tugs Coulston and Mabel, arriving -at the steamboat landing in the early evening. - - ❦ - - - - - COURSE THREE - ❦ - THE WAR - - -Barely was the next drill season well inaugurated when the Maine sailed -for Havana, and then came the terrible disaster in which many of the -division’s shipmates were hurled into eternity, and next the preparation -for the approaching conflict with Spain. In April, the First Regiment -marched away, the division remaining eager for the coming call. Each -drill evening the men put heart, energy and sustained attention into the -work. Drills took place on the park in the presence of citizens who paid -their tributes of respect to the sailor blue. Each member was urged to -train physically, as well as to learn the drills. Seamanship, signalling -and such boat work as could be taught were the backbone of the -instruction. - -Finally the call came and over ninety per cent. of the division -volunteered at roll call to enlist in the United States Navy for the -entire conflict. On June 6, the division paraded in heavy marching order -up Main Street and by Trumbull and Asylum Streets to the railroad -station, escorted by posts of the Grand Army and by veteran and active -military commands, and entrained for the State Military Rendezvous in -Niantic. - -On June 15, Commander Field, U. S. N., mustered in the command -thenceforward known as the “war company.” Following are the names and -the ages with ratings obtained before the mustering out and with the -names of the ships on which each individual mainly served: - - Henry S. Baldwin, G. M., 1st class, 24 Seminole - Arthur W. Barber, Landsman, 25 Minnesota - George S. Baxter, Coxswain, 22 Wyandotte - Robert C. Beers, Landsman, 26 Catskill - Howard Berry, Ordinary Seaman, 20 Wyandotte - Henry W. Bigelow, Seaman, 30 Minnesota - Herbert G. Bissell, Ordinary Seaman, 24 Minnesota - Fred G. Blakeslee, Seaman, 30 Minnesota - Fred E. Bosworth, Quartermaster, 23 Minnesota - Arthur L. Brewer, Seaman, 21 Minnesota - George Brinley, Seaman, 26 Wyandotte - John H. P. Brinley, Seaman, 23 Wyandotte - Henry R. Buck, Seaman, 22 East Boston - Joseph F. Burke, Landsman, 22 Wyandotte - Archibald L. Case, Seaman, 23 Minnesota - Henry B. Case, Landsman, 19 Minnesota - Robert D. Chapin, Seaman, 22 Minnesota - Murray H. Coggeshall, Q. M., 1st Class, 25 Wyandotte - George F. Colby, Landsman, 21 Wyandotte - Arthur S. Cutting, Landsman, 20 Minnesota - Hermann F. Cuntz, Ensign Lr. S. N., 26 Sylvia - Stanley K. Dimock, Seaman, 20 Seminole - Edward J. Doran, Ship’s Apothecary, 24 Minnesota - Henry W. Drury, Seaman, 22 Minnesota - Francis E. Field, Seaman, 25 Minnesota - George C. Forrest, O. M., 3d Class, 29 Wyandotte - George Foster, Coal Passer, 23 Wyandotte - Paul Franke, Landsman, 24 Minnesota - Burton L. Gabrielle, Ordinary Seaman, 20 Minnesota - Christopher M. Gallup, Fireman, 22 East Boston - William A. Geer, Landsman, 27 Minnesota - Frank W. Gillette, Ordinary Seaman, 23 Wyandotte - William Goulet, Landsman, 22 Minnesota - James J. Hawley, Q. M., 2d Class, 27 Seminole - George A. Holcomb, Ord. Seaman, 22 Seminole - Richard J. Holmes, Ordinary Seaman, 25 Minnesota - Charles A. Huntington, Chief G. M., 25 Wyandotte - William M. Hurd, Seaman, 23 Minnesota - Edward Q. Jackson, Ord. Seaman, 23 Minnesota - Lorenzo W. Kenyon, Seaman, 20 Minnesota - Frank R. Keyes, Chief Quartermaster, 21 Wyandotte - Frank E. Kowalsky, Coal Passer, 21 Seminole - Arthur P. LeFever, Landsman, 19 Minnesota - Michael C. Long, G. M., 2d Class, 28 Wyandotte - Oliver W. Malm, Seaman, 25 Minnesota - George R. Martin, Ord. Seaman, 19 Minnesota - Ralph W. McCreary, B. M., 1st Class, 22 Wyandotte - J. Ward McManus, Seaman, 23 Minnesota - Louis F. Middlebrook, Ens’n, U. S. N., 32 Enquirer - Guy P. Miller, Seaman, 23 Minnesota - Hugh I. Miller, Seaman, 25 Minnesota - James H. Morgan, Q. M., 1st Class, 23 Seminole - Victor F. Morgan, Seaman, 18 Minnesota - Shiras Morris, Coxswain, 23 Wyandotte - Linwood K. Moses, Landsman, 20 Minnesota - Carl C. Nielson, Wardroom Steward, 25 Seminole - Edward J. Noble, Ordinary Seaman, 23 Minnesota - Edwin T. Northam, Seaman, 23 Minnesota - Robert C. Northam, G. M., 2d Class, 25 Minnesota - Harry Y. Nutter, Seaman, 26 Minnesota - Lauriston F. L. Pynchon, Seaman, 26 Minnesota - Judson B. Root, Ordinary Seaman, 22 Minnesota - Harrison Sanford, Ordinary Seaman, 21 Wyandotte - Charles C. Saunders, Seaman, 22 Minnesota - Felton Parker, Lieutenant, U. S. N., 38 Huntress - Lyman Root, Ensign, U. S. N., 29 Elfrida - Otto M. Schwerdtfeger, Landsman, 22 Minnesota - Albert W. Scoville, Jr., Seaman, 21 East Boston - Lester H. Scoville, Ordinary Seaman, 20 East Boston - William H. Scrivener, Seaman, 21 Minnesota - Frederic A. Seaver, Landsman, 34 Minnesota - Freeman P. Seymour, Ord. Seaman, 34 Minnesota - Forrest Shepherd, Seaman, 28 Wyandotte - Herbert E. Storrs, Seaman, 19 East Boston - Morton C. Talcott, Landsman, 20 Minnesota - George H. Tinkham, Landsman, 22 Wyandotte - William C. Tregoning, Seaman, 22 Seminole - John F. Twardoks, Landsman, 21 Minnesota - Jonathan K. Uhler, Seaman, 24 Minnesota - James D. Wells, Seaman, 23 Minnesota - Richard B. Wells, Coxswain, 29 Seminole - Alanson H. Wightman, Q. M., 1st Cl., 26 Seminole - George E. Wilcox, Ord. Seaman, 21 Minnesota - Louis B. Wilson, B. M., 1st Class, 26 Seminole - Frank L. Young, Cabin Steward, 19 Wyandotte - -[Illustration: - - DIVISION BOAT RACE IN BOSTON HARBOR -] - -From Niantic the division went to the receiving ship Minnesota at the -Congress Street slip in the Charlestown Navy Yard. At one time and -another officers were detailed and men were drafted to vessels of the -“Mosquito fleet,” and these were scattered all the way down the coast to -Key West and the Havana Blockade, Ensign Cuntz on the Sylvia having the -good fortune to see the Morro. - - - - - COURSE FOUR - ❦ - THE PRAIRIE - - -Following the excitement of the war summer came a reaction. The -membership dropped nearly to the danger point. For a time it was a long -and hard beat to windward, a trying fight with wind, wave and tide. Like -every command from Connecticut which served in the war with Spain, the -division found many of its best members returning to civilian ranks, and -that to replace them either numerically or in quality required time and -activity. But new blood—or what might be called a saline infusion—came, -and before the snows melted the division had weathered the worst. - -It was the Prairie which was the division’s floating home on the cruise -taken in the following August. On the 16th the battalion sailed from New -Haven harbor. Two days later the ship was off Gloucester, home of daring -fishermen, and the next day she was in Bar Harbor. On the 21st she put -out to sea. She passed outside Nantucket Shoals Lightship and -opportunity was given to the men for target practice with great guns at -sea, after sub-caliber coming full service charges. On their return -members of the division spun exciting yarns concerning diluted -saltpeter, embalmed horsehide, hammock ladders and raids on the -officers’ refrigerator. - -It is to be chronicled that thirteen states were represented in naval -militia cruises on the Prairie in 1899 and that Connecticut took third -rank among them; also that the Hartford division won first place among -the three divisions from Connecticut, Bridgeport having organized the -Third Division. - - - - - “DEWEY DAY” - ❦ - - -[Illustration: - - LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER LYMAN ROOT -] - -Probably the most memorable occasion in the history of the command was -September 30, 1899, “Dewey Day,” the day of the giant procession in New -York City in honor of the fine old hero of Manila Bay. When the -organizations to represent this state were selected, it was the Naval -Battalion which headed the list of honor. The First Regiment was not -upon the list, but with honorable patriotism officers of the regiment -who had served in Camp Alger requested of Lieutenant Lyman Root, -Lieutenant Parker’s successor, permission to wear the sailor blue and -carry Springfields in the division ranks. Men who had served in distant -years in the wooden navy and men who had fought under Dyer in Manila Bay -and Wainwright in the combat with the Furor and the Pluton and had -returned to Hartford, also asked and received the same permission. - -With four officers and 112 men the division swung out from the armory on -the evening of the 29th and amid red fire and with a band blaring at the -front paraded to the railroad station, envied by infantrymen who could -not obtain opportunity to march in the mammoth procession. At 11 o’clock -the company marched into the Second Regiment Armory in New Haven, -stacked arms and was dismissed for a midnight lunch, at which the men -stowed away steaming coffee and ham sandwiches and received strict -orders not to leave the building. Then they made living pillows of one -another and slumbered innocently on benches in the gallery till some -wee, sma’ hour or other in the morning, when the Second Regiment crashed -out with “Onward Christian Soldiers,” and summoned them back to the -world of consciousness and sin. At 3 o’clock they fell in and marched -out into a hospitable rain punctuated by milkmen and policemen. -Three-quarters of an hour later they boarded the side-wheeler -Shinnecock. At 4 o’clock the steamer got under way and the men began to -look forward to a night of rest. One man slept on his arm under a table -in the dining saloon piled six feet high with camp chairs. Another was -lost to the world under the break of the pilot house. Still another -slept on unbaled hay for the field officers of the Second Regiment. Some -slumbered in gangways and some on the paddle boxes. The mathematical -boys of the division demonstrated the problem that it was possible to -sleep anywhere in space. - -Somewhere in the head of the Sound the Shinnecock fell on an evil time. -A bushing on a feathering paddle blade in the starboard wheel misbehaved -and a bar buckled and for three hours she drifted while engineers made -repairs. Finally an emergency landing was made in a convenient coal yard -in Port Morris and the battalion trotted at double time for two miles -over Harlem cobblestones, arriving just in time to fall in ahead of -General Oliver O. Howard and the Grand Army Division. - -During the march the men had a coveted opportunity to view the one-armed -corps commander at close range. Much of the time the old hero was -obliged to ride with his bridle rein in his teeth and with his chapeau -in his hand in response to the frantic waves of applause which greeted -him. The occupants of the closely packed stands along the line of march -rose in wildly cheering masses as they caught sight of the grizzled -veteran and the men of the Grand Army of the Republic. - -Down Riverside Drive and for four miles in the heart of the city the -battalion marched with fixed bayonets. It paraded between solid masses -of cheering citizens and almost solid walls of flags and decorations. At -every halt the men were refreshed with fruit, coffee or drinkables, -sandwiches and salads or cigars, and presented with flowers and -souvenirs. At one halt on aristocratic Fifth Avenue a shower of silk -college sofa cushions came down from window seats and a Princeton -cushion was impaled on the historian’s bayonet. - -At the conclusion of the parade many of the division repaired to -restaurants near Madison Square and Union Square. Dozens of them found, -when they stepped to the cashiers’ coops to liquidate, that unknown -civilians had obtained their checks and paid the bills. A man in a -sailor uniform in New York City that September afternoon found it no -easy task to spend money. Nothing was too good for the bluejackets. - -It is to be recorded that Lieutenant Cuntz, Gunner’s Mate Huntington, -Coxswain Chapin and Seamen Noble and Nutter preceded the battalion to -New York. When the Shinnecock failed to appear, they annexed three stray -regulars from the U. S. S. Texas, and assumed an advanced place in the -column. In one of the spectators’ stands certain individuals conceived -the notion that the eight were Hobson and the Merrimac survivors. In a -few moments the word was passed over the stand and the crowd was on its -feet in a wild burst of applause. - - -While Dewey Day experiences were still being talked over, arrangements -were quietly made for a presentation to the first commanding officer, -Mr. Parker, who was lured to Turnerbund Hall to receive from the command -a gold watch with chain and fob, the chain in the semblance of a -stud-link ship’s cable and the fob a division pin mounted on a locket. - -More of the tang of salt air and of the romance of the ocean came one -evening in the next drill season when the division mustered in the -parlor to listen to a talk by Professor Henry Ferguson of Trinity -College, an honorary member, who told a thrilling tale of shipwreck in -the mid-Pacific. Professor Ferguson recited the story of the Hornet, a -clipper which sailed from New York in 1866 for San Francisco. When the -ship was several hundred miles off the Galapagos fire obliged the crew -to take to the three boats, which were provisioned for ten days. It was -decided to head for the north, to keep in the track of San Francisco -vessels. Merchantmen in those days adhered to Maury’s sailing directions -and it was reasoned that chances would be better in the sea highway than -in attempting to reach land. By day the heat was nearly intolerable. -Nights were treacherous as they induced squalls of the vindictively -sudden nature peculiar to those Equatorial waters. Day after day wore by -with an unbroken horizon. Finally the boats crawled up into the trade -winds. It was decided to separate the boats to increase the chance of -finding aid. For twenty-five days the sailors had fought wind, sun, and -water and now they were in danger of fighting starvation, the ten days’ -provisions, which had been distributed into one-third allowances, being -nearly exhausted. The remaining provisions were in turn re-divided, but -were gone in a fortnight. The men surviving sought nourishment in the -chewing of leather and moist clothing. On the point of utter exhaustion -they made a landfall, which proved to be Hawaii, and were rescued by a -crew from a coasting station. They had spent forty-three days in an open -boat and had traveled nearly three thousand miles. - -More of the romance of the sea came to the division when the story of a -“war member,” William Hurd, and the schooner Intrepid was told. Less -than a month after Professor Ferguson’s lecture, Hurd cleared in New -York with his little auxiliary as a trader to carry trinkets, tin -jewelry, Yankee notions, canned soups, linens and whatnot to Baranquila -and to acquire cocoanuts and rubber on the Mosquito Coast and islands -nearby. His auxiliary was sixty-one feet on the water line and eighteen -feet beam and thirty-five gross tonnage, or twenty-eight net. She had a -powerful gasoline motor. After she cleared, Colombian insurrectionists -captured Baranquila and Hurd’s friends in the division began to wonder -what would happen to their former shipmate if an insurrecto officer -ranged alongside with more of an appetite for grindstones, canned soups -and tin jewelry than for international law. But Hurd was able to take -care of himself. He prospered as a trader, made a bushel of money, spent -it and finally returned. - -At the annual banquet of 1900, Admiral Bunce, U.S.N., retired, was a -guest and in his speech pointed out that foreign intelligence officers -knew full well that seven-tenths of the arms and ammunition made for the -government came from Connecticut. In response to a toast another -speaker, Francis B. Allen, said: - - “It was one of your honorary members, our distinguished Admiral - Bunce, who, while in command of the North Atlantic Squadron just - prior to the Spanish War, brought not only the fleet but each - individual ship to such a degree of excellence in squadron - evolutions and gun drills that he enabled his successors to acquit - themselves so creditably that Sunday morning outside Santiago Bay - when Cervera’s squadron tried to escape that the result afforded us - the greatest Fourth of July celebration since Vicksburg - surrendered.” - -A month later Ensign Middlebrook launched the Veteran Association down -well-greased ways, and on May 23 the battalion had its first field day, -assembling at Savin Rock. It was reserved for Gunner’s Mate Chapin to -make known to Hartford a new method of celebrating the Fourth of July. -He navigated a picked gun crew at the close of the midwatch from the -armory to the City Hall and at sunrise pumped out a salute of twenty-one -shots from the lean throat of a Hotchkiss one-pounder. Irate sleepers -admitted that Chapin’s method was convincing. They were justly incensed -when he marched the crew under the Asylum Street bridge and fired a like -salute, and still more so when he took it to the Park Terrace and -discharged a fourteen-shot salute. Chapin proposed to fire a salute in -Wethersfield, but ammunition ran low. - - ❦ - - - - - COURSE FIVE - ❦ - THE PRAIRIE AGAIN - - -That summer’s cruise was on the Prairie and led to Penobscot Bay. The -division sent in a whaleboat crew to race against one from the First -Division on that water, and its crew defeated that from the Elm City by -a quarter of a length, one of the New Haven officers marveling at this -result and asserting that it was a mystery of the deep. It also captured -two other boat races. - -Later in the summer camping parties spent week-ends in Paradise, the -narrow strip between Bodkin Rock and the river a short distance below -Middletown. The division’s steamboat and the pulling boats which had -come a season or two before were in popular favor. They gave silent -lessons to the boys in boat engine work and in the stowing of dunnage, -thereby adding variety to the oarsmen’s drill of the early spring. - -December 22, Lieutenant Parker died at his home in South Lancaster, -Mass. mourned by all who knew him. A patriotic officer, a loyal friend, -he had won the affection of the command. - -One minute prior to midnight December 31, two gun crews unlimbered in -the rear of the City Hall and on the dot of midnight, the opening of the -new century, Gunner’s Mate Chapin fired the first shot in a salute of -twenty-one guns, a welcome to the newborn heir of time. - -Century No. Twenty’s first gift to the division was an indoor baseball -team. The sport was new to the armory and it jumped (or slid) into -instant favor. The first game was with a team from Company A and to the -astonishment of everybody and most of all themselves the sailors won, by -a score of 17 to 12. They contended with a hurricane of batting in the -second inning and dragged anchor, but they weathered the storm and won -with an inning to spare. One of the division advocated a diamond of this -kind: - -Home plate on the forecastle near the foremast, for baseline the -starboard foremast shrouds and for first base the foretop; along main -topmast stay to second base, the main top-masthead; down main topmast -rigging to third base, the main top; then down the mainstay and on to -the point of beginning. None of the other teams would play on that -diamond. - -In a sham battle held in the armory in Governor McLean’s honor the -division had a conspicuous part and in the spring the battalion had its -field day in the South Meadow. Governor McLean had appointed Mr. -Middlebrook to be naval aide on his staff, with the rank of captain, the -highest rank which any member has obtained in the Connecticut naval -militia, later naval-aides having the rank of lieutenant-commanders. - - ❦ - - - - - COURSE SIX - ❦ - TO CAMP NEWTON - - -The third anniversary of the mustering in of the battalion at Niantic -was observed by an outing at Woodmont, followed by a week-end cruise on -the Elfrida, the converted yacht once owned by W. Seward Webb and -purchased by the government at the breaking out of the war with Spain. -At a banquet in the Pembroke Hotel at Woodmont, General Edward E. -Bradley, adjutant-general when the First Division organized, and Senator -Joseph R. Hawley were speakers. - -Master-at-Arms Murphy trained a volunteer racing cutter crew at -intervals in the course of the summer, bitterly lamenting that he never -had the same men two evenings running. Still he had men who were fairly -proficient when the battalion had its annual tour of duty, at Camp -Newton on Fisher’s Island. Tent life was varied by considerable work in -pulling boats. It was expected that a cutter race would be rowed between -the Hartford racing crew and a crew picked from the New Haven and -Bridgeport Division, but the latter did not materialize. That spectators -might not be disappointed, two crews were selected from the Hartford -oarsmen, Lieutenant Lyman Root acting as coxswain for one and Assistant -Surgeon Carroll C. Beach for the other. Mr. Root’s crew was inspired by -the presence of Dick, the division’s mascot, a corpulent bulldog with a -blue flat cap cocked rakishly over one ear. With one hand on the tiller -and the other on the dog’s collar, Mr. Root incited his crew and won by -a half-length in a course of half a mile. - -For most of the six days rain came down in buckets. The camp work was a -practical lesson to the men of the division. That they returned healthy, -well disciplined, and contented, as well as much more familiar with duty -either afloat or ashore, demonstrated the learning capacity of the men -and the value of the camp. - -On the return the Elfrida cast off, outside Saybrook Light, a tow -consisting of the steam whaleboat and the division’s cutter, its barge -and its pulling whaleboat. The “whaler” with the pulling boat in tow -started up the river, but a squall descended and gave work to all hands. -The crews landed in Essex in torrents, and after making the boats snug -for the night, turned in at a sail loft near the landing. - -In the autumn the division sustained another severe affliction in the -death of its first honorary member, a firm friend in fair weather and -foul, Admiral Francis M. Bunce, an officer whom it had been a rare -privilege to honor. A veteran of the Civil War, a seasoned sailor, a -loyal Hartford man who took pride in his townspeople, the Admiral had -richly merited the division’s high esteem. His strong, yet kindly face -the men missed and mourned. - -In the autumn an order came for a parade in New Haven, and when the -personal escort for President Roosevelt was selected, it was found to be -the Naval Battalion; and when the parade started it was found that the -senior division, the Second, was next to the President’s carriage. - -Wall-scaling had a conspicuous part in the drill of the winter, and in -the spring small boat work and volunteer work on the Elfrida, the -battalion’s practice vessel, were attractions for those most interested -in the command. The Elfrida played her part well in the duty of the -spring field day of 1902, when the battalion rendezvoused in Bridgeport. - -[Illustration: - - CAMP PARKER -] - -In June of that year a proposition to establish a summer camp took shape -and at a meeting a subscription paper was opened and $200 was pledged in -about fifteen minutes. A site was selected on the east bank of the river -in South Glastonbury and nearly opposite Two Piers. Volunteers cleared -the land of brush, assisted in driving a well, hauled lumber and -materials up the steep ascent of 115 feet, aided the carpenters, and -helped to furnish and arrange camp. They sought and obtained practical -experience in cooking and camp life. It was decided to name the camp -after the first commander of the division; and to this day the building -is known as Camp Parker. The spot was formally dedicated July 4th with -speeches and an open-air dinner, at which the building committee in due -and ancient form turned the institution over to the division. The house -was equipped with hammocks and many a rooky has there learned how to -pass a sailor’s night. Many a pleasant Sunday afternoon in midsummer has -lured men of the division to the cool piazza with its noble view for -many miles in three directions, south, west and north. - - ❦ - - - - - COURSE SEVEN - ❦ - THE PANTHER - - -In some respects the yearly cruise which started several weeks later was -among the most memorable adventures of the division; and when some of -the old hands are spinning yarns about what they did when they were -young, they like to hark back to the “sham war” and a certain hike -across Montauk Point. The most extensive land and sea maneuvers in many -years were arranged in Washington for a force of several thousand of the -army and for practically all of the fine North Atlantic squadron of that -year, of which Admiral Higginson, the captain of the Massachusetts in -the Spanish war, was in command. - -It was on the auxiliary cruiser Panther that the battalion served. The -division boarded the ship in New London harbor. In the course of the -service the Panther steamed as far east as Menemsha Bight and as far -west as New London, the object of the maneuvers being to test in a -practical way the defenses of the eastern entrance of Long Island Sound. -At sundown of a Saturday the most powerful fleet to that time assembled -in those waters was riding to anchor in the bight, awaiting the passage -of the hours before midnight ’ere beginning maneuvers against the string -of forts and signal stations scattered all the way from Woods Hole -around to Montauk. As night shut down, the signal lamps began their -Ardois work. At midnight hoarse orders came from the Panther’s bridge -and the rattle of the steam winch and the heavy clank of the cable in -the hawse pipe announced that the ship was getting under way. - -Sunday found the ship off Block Island and Monday evening found her -heading north. Just as the watch off duty was beginning to snore -peacefully, the bugle sounded the call for general quarters. In a moment -the gun deck lights were switched on and ladders and hatches were choked -with men piling to their stations. Masters-at-arms were unceremoniously -rousting out rookies from their hammocks. In barely more time that it -has taken to write this paragraph the guns were cast loose, ammunition -was provided and the big naval bulldog was in fighting trim. - -One afternoon the battalion had boat drill. Cutters were lowered and -with boat guns working and the landing party armed with rifles there was -a pretty bit of excitement. A day later the heavy guns belched at a -signal station ashore, which crumbled to theoretic dust. Then the naval -militiamen were mustered at division quarters and a day’s ration was -issued to each man, a two-pound tin of canned beef to each pair of men -and five or ten hard tack (or ship biscuit) to each man and a canteen -full of water or coffee, as the man elected. The call came for arm and -away boats. With a Colt automatic in the bow of each cutter the party -landed, going into extended order, while a detail took possession of the -telegraph and the telephone station. - -The long line of blue swarmed over a strip of sand and a bit of swale to -a knoll. Then began two hours’ hard work. Through wire grass and sand -grass, through bushes and brush, across swamp and swale, by farmhouses -and barns, alongside lily ponds, the bending blue line advanced, -officers pointing the way with swords and squad leaders attempting to -keep the files at eight pace intervals. - -Following an advance of four miles in such manner the “enemy” was -located behind the crest of a steep and high hill. The order for a -charge was given and with a yell the men sprinted forward under a heavy -shower of fireworks. Ensign Northam was the first up San Juan Hill and -it was reported that the historian was the last to reach the summit. - -At this juncture the heavens opened and rain came down in buckets. After -a quarter of an hour in the downpour the battalion started on the return -of four miles. The hike was at route step. At the beach the oarsmen had -a stiff pull against wind and tide in boats loaded to the gunwales. But -the young salts were in fine spirits and when the order came to “shift -to anything dry” it was received as a joke. - -The chief boatswain’s mate of the Panther was C. K. Claussen, the -Claussen who accompanied Hobson on the Merrimac and was confined in the -Spanish prison near Santiago. - -At the end of the week, when the Panther left the squadron, her course -lay between the Olympia, Dewey’s flagship in the Battle of Manila Bay, -and the Brooklyn, Schley’s in the capture of Cervera. To each was given -a salute with the bugle and the lining of the rail. The Brooklyn’s band -rendered a patriotic air. - -In the following fall the division took up target practice in real -earnest and at a special shoot in the South Meadow Chief Gunner’s Mate -Herbert E. Wiley won the first place. Barely was this function over when -it was decided to produce a comic opera and “The Mikado” was selected. -This was presented in Parsons’, so well that critics agreed that the -division could sing as correctly as it could sail. - -In the winter the division tried its fortune again at indoor baseball, -with varying results. On one occasion it played an exciting game with -Company A, won the game, lost it and won it again, just clearing a lee -shore by a score of 19 to 18. On another it defeated the champions of -the armory in an eleven-inning contest. - -The second annual indoor meet demonstrated that the series had arrived -to stay, a fact which each February proves again. - -To extend its activities the division sent a picked gun crew on an -inland cruise to New Britain to give an exhibition drill. - -[Illustration: - - BOAT CREW AT CHARLES ISLAND -] - -The field day was spent at Charles Island. To still further extend its -activities the division crossed afoot from the island at low tide to the -mainland. - - ❦ - - - - - COURSE EIGHT - ❦ - AT NIANTIC - - -Amphibious is the word to apply to the division’s tour of duty that -summer. The steam whaleboat, by this time christened “Tillie Hadley,” by -her fireman, Gunner’s Mate Arnold, started down the river August 21, -1903, with the three pulling boats in tow, carrying nearly a quarter of -the division. The following day the remainder boarded the Elfrida in New -Haven harbor, and she with the First Division’s small boats in tow -steamed to Crescent Bay. A detail from each division spent eight days -afloat and the rest divided their time between Camp Reynolds at the -state military rendezvous at Niantic and boat drills in Crescent Bay. -The boat work was popular, so much so that in a few days most of the -oarsmen were approaching man-o’-war form. - -At the end of the duty a storm came along which gave work to militia, -the seafaring population and landlubbers. In the New York _Herald_ of -the next day it was printed: “Old seafaring men down that way say that -they never saw the Sound rougher than it was that night.” A sailboat was -washed ashore at White Beach, two small sailing vessels dragged anchor -near Niantic, a sloop was wrecked to the southwest of the Crescent Beach -landing and a large three-masted schooner dragged anchor. - -The Elfrida steamed out of the bay as the storm was breaking, on her way -to Sandy Hook and the yacht races with Governor Chamberlain on board. -The sou’wester rose into a gale. Seas broke high over the weather rail -to fly across the engine room skylight. The officers on the bridge and -the quartermaster on watch were soon soaked to the skin in spite of -oilskins and pea coats. It was a fierce night and the brave little ship -had a nervy tussle with the gale. At 3 o’clock in the morning the -Elfrida put into Huntington Bay and dropped anchor, finding that five -large steamers were there riding out the night, among them the Tremont -of the Joy Line, and the Shinnecock. Stormbound sailing craft were also -in the bay. - -Soon after the hook went down it was found to be dragging, then the ship -was taken farther inshore and both starboard and port anchors were let -drop, with a good length of cable. - -Later a distress sign was sighted on a yacht out in the open water. A -volunteer boat crew pulled out and found the vessel to be the schooner -Rosina, from New Haven, owned by an amateur who had a sailing master, -three women and a cook on board. The owner seasick, the sailing master -called the cook for a moment to the wheel, while he stepped down into -the cabin for a chart. The cook lost his head and, while in the wind, -the schooner’s main-topmast snapped and her fore-topsail carried away. -The rescuing boat crew found the women hysterical and with life -preservers adjusted. The men from the Elfrida cleared away the wreckage. - -Early in the fall the division entertained members of H Company, Naval -Brigade, M. V. M., of Springfield, at Camp Parker with an old-time shore -clambake. The camp had become increasingly popular and for a number of -years nearly every Saturday or Sunday afternoon in midsummer attracted -division men to the place, and in “whites” the boys kept busy making -things snug in the galley or policing the grounds or taking a spin in a -pulling boat below. - -November 18 brought an extraordinary spectacle—a book bee. At our bell -in the first watch, Librarian Palmer and Jack-o’-the-Shelf McDonald -broke out their accessioning system and the smoking lamp was lighted. -The books given made a startling list. Tolstoy’s “Resurrection” was -found sandwiched between “Alice in Wonderland” and a volume of -Lighthouse Reports. General Miles, Kipling, Morgan Robertson and -Roosevelt were popular authors. This is history, not romance. An -entertainment followed the book bee. Clog dancing on the foc’s’le head, -nautical songs, selections on cordage and dead eyes by a banjo quintet -and a sword dance by Coxswain Watson made up the backbone of the -evening. It was seven bells when the rejoicing ceased and the -merrymakers heaved out of the armory, all on soundings and under easy -canvas, except the supposed contributor of “Resurrection,” who scudded -away under a double-reefed fore-topsail. - -The indoor meet of the next February sustained the division’s -reputation. By this time the annual mid-winter tourney had become known -all over Connecticut. The referees in the series have included such -gentlemen as President Luther of Trinity College and Former -Lieutenant-Governor Lake. - -A month later the division was entertained by H Company of Springfield -in the Highland Hotel in that city, where the company was observing its -eleventh anniversary. - -In June (June 19, 1904) the Elfrida came over Saybrook Bar with -Lieutenant Lyman Root in command. She was navigated up the river by -members of the division and came to anchor opposite the foot of Ferry -Street. Three days later, a brilliant reception was given on board her -to Governor Chamberlain. She was dressed fore and aft and from water’s -edge to water’s edge. In the illumination 248 Japanese lanterns were -included. Many military officers were present in full dress uniform. - -The following morning the division paraded to the foot of Ferry Street, -embarking and escorting the governor and Former Governor Morgan G. -Bulkeley, an honorary member of the division, to East Haddam, there to -attend the dedication of a monument to Major-General Joseph Spencer of -Revolutionary War fame. - -Three days later a hard-working and loyal graduate of the division, -Ensign William G. Hinckley, assistant engineer, received his commission -as lieutenant and chief engineer. Efficient, loyal and popular, Mr. -Hinckley received numerous congratulations of his well-earned promotion. - -The range of the division’s energy is proved when it is chronicled that -July 27, the clubhouse committee carried out a moonlight sail down the -river. It was considerately promulgated in the committee’s circular: -“State exact number of ladies you intend bringing. Chaperons will be in -attendance.” - - ❦ - - - - - COURSE NINE - ❦ - THE HARTFORD - - -[Illustration: - - FURLING SAIL ON THE U. S. S. HARTFORD -] - -The yearly cruise of 1904 was on Farragut langsyne flagship, the -Hartford, relic of the battle of Mobile Bay. It was as interesting as -any which the division has ever taken, barring, perhaps, that on the -Panther. When station billets were issued even the old hands volleyed -questions at their running mates of the regular crew. Here is the start -of a typical station billet: - - Form No. 10.—Bur. Navigation. - - Watch No. 126 U. S. S. Hartford. - Name, Rate, Cox. - Div. 2d. Gun, No. 8, 5–inch. - Armed boat, 3d cutter. Running boat, 3d cutter. Abandon ship, - 3d cutter. - Fire quarters, close ports, No. 8 5–inch gun. - -That was easy enough, even for a rooky. But what do you know about this? - - - EVOLUTION. - - Loosing sail. - Furling sail. - Up and down topgallant and royal yards. - Up and down topgallant masts. - Making sail and getting underway. - Tacking and wearing. - Reef topsails. - Shorten sail and come to anchor. - - - STATIONS AND DUTIES. - - Loose topgallant sail. - Furl topgallant sail. - Topmast crosstrees to rig upper topgallant yardarm, etc. - Topmast crosstrees, reeve and unreeve mast rope, fid and - unfid, etc. - Loose topgallant sail, then on deck to halliards. - Overhaul foresheet and shorten in, man maintop bowlines, - main and fore tacks. - Man topsail bunt lines, then halliards. - Let go topgallant halliards, man topsail clew lines, veer - and stopper cables. - -It was a novelty to nearly all of the division, bringing back the old -days of heave and haul. The regulars were husky men with legs like -barrels and arms like blacksmiths’, nearly every one raw material for a -football player or anchor of a tug-of-war team. Bosn’s mates were -weather-beaten salts with faces like teakwood, seamed by the suns and -snows of the seven seas, tanned tar-mequicks with chests like hair -mattresses. One barnacle in the port watch had a voice as rasping as a -nutmeg grater. You might have imagined that he was born in Lat. 2, -North, Long. 2, West, and that he learned to creep on the lee side of -the foc’s’le. When he shrilled out a pipe with a chaser like the growl -of distant thunder a nippous rooky from the Tenth Ward asked in blank -amazement: - -“What in heaven did that fellow say?” - -“One man from each part of the ship coal the first steamer,” was the -reply. - -Some of the best boat work which the division has ever done was -performed on this cruise. This is true not only in the line of -oarsmanship, but also in the securing of boats for sea and for port. - -The duty took the division up Sound to Huntington Bay, then east to -Gardiner’s Bay, thence over to New London and finally back to New Haven -harbor. The men had a welcome convenience in the line of large lockers. -They took much interest in the apprentices, frolicsome little fellows -then from the training station who had school each morning at a mess -table on the starboard side of the gun deck near a frowning five-inch -gun with its glittering brass and its oiled steel. - -The boys were poring over their books and papers in very much the same -way that lads in the seventh and eighth grades in the Second North or -the West Middle schools are poring (perhaps more so), over arithmetic. -In the instruction of the class the chaplain was using some of the books -which citizens of Hartford gave to the ship’s library in 1899 at the -suggestion of Admiral Bunce. - -Most important among the events of the early part of the ensuing drill -season was the election of Lieutenant Lyman Root to be navigator of the -battalion to succeed Lieutenant Robert E. L. Hutchinson, promoted to be -lieutenant-commander and in turn succeeding Lieutenant-Commander Frank -S. Cornwell, promoted to be commander of the battalion, _vice_ Commander -Averill, retired. In his capacity as chief of the division, Mr. Root had -shown exceptional versatility, having been successful in the social and -athletic lines, as well as in drill and discipline. At the next drill -evening he took formal farewell of the division which he had so long and -so ably and so considerately commanded, giving generously of his best -energy and most faithful loyalty. He had taken the helm when the command -was little better than a wreck, had nursed it back to health and -prosperity and made it the finest military company in all Hartford. In -fair weather and foul weather, in joy and sorrow, on soundings and off -soundings, his steadying hand had been at the wheel and had time and -again brought the division safe into port. Strong and clear purpose, -affection for the command and for salt water,—these were our chief’s -dominant traits. The ability to read character was another quality. But -of these three characteristics his affection for the division stood ever -foremost. - -[Illustration: - - LIEUTENANT HOWARD J. BLOOMER -] - -Captain Howard J. Bloomer came over from the infantry to act as next -lieutenant of the division, not the least of the prerogatives being the -privilege of presiding as toastmaster at the yearly banquet. On the menu -card was a huitrain re-rigged from Coxswain John Kendrick Bangs so as to -read: - - Oh, Navy Plug, Ottoman, Alonzo, - Puritan Boy, Especial, H. Clay, - Invincible, Rosedale, Alphonso, - Soby’s Best, German Lovers, El Rey, - Elegantes, Re-ina, Selectos, - Oh, Two-For, Madura, Grandé, - Shoe Pegs, Oscuro, Perfectos— - You drive all my sorrows away. - -A floral bell nearly as large as the foretop was lifted and revealed an -elegant silver loving cup presented to Mr. Root as testimony to their -high esteem. A little later followed the elevation of Mr. Root to the -rank of lieutenant-commander of the battalion. - - ❦ - - - - - COURSE TEN - ❦ - THE COLUMBIA - - -Sail drill was the feature of the cruise on the Hartford in 1904 and in -the following year drill in small boats was the feature. On the training -ship the boats usually hung outside the rail, but on the cruiser the -boats were frequently kept inside the rail. With the ship’s four funnels -and her multitudinous skylights and deckhouses her superstructure was -unsuitable for “setting up.” - -A series of tug-of-war pulls enlivened the trip. The New Haven division -won from Bridgeport and Hartford from New Haven. Thus it was for the -Hartford team to pull the ship’s team. This contest came and to the -astonishment of all, the Hartford men won. And so it was that when the -division returned half of the lads were hoarse. - -Bugler L. Wayne Adams was in high feather during the trip. He had -memorized the calls and sounded them accurately. By virtue of his high -office he was excused from previous service as messman; for much of the -cruise he was a man of elegant leisure. On his return to Wethersfield, -residents of Jordan Lane and the Nail Keg Club at Hanmer’s grocery heard -many a fine yarn, spun in Wayne’s best style. - -The old rifle range in the South Meadow was discontinued, owing to the -increased range and power of the rifles just introduced into the -Connecticut National Guard. In consequence the division’s fall target -practice was conducted over the range in South Manchester. Acting as a -marker, Landsman Hill was hit by a deflected bullet, which was found -later in his shoe. Hill was taken to the Hartford Hospital. - -Following the indoor meet, given successfully, of course, the division -began to prepare to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The banquet was -held in the Hartford Club. In the blue uniform the men of the division -attending mustered for entry into the dining room, to the strains of a -march. A dismounted signal gun of old-time size from the Dauntless -rested at the center of the head table, flanked by two silver cups, -trophies won by athletic teams from the division. Knife bayonets of the -new kind rested on the cups. Two stacks of rifles afforded resting-place -for the division’s colors. - -The menu cards contained the following: - - “_Such a deal of skimble, skamble stuff - As puts me from my faith._” - - HENRY IV. - - “_A page where men - May read strange matters._” - - MACBETH. - - X Home Port Routine X - Call All Hands - -[Illustration] - - Heave Anchor to Short Stay Serve Grog Stand by for a Blow - Up and Down - Port Marine Growth Bleached Starboard - Hot Suds Served Forward on Turtle Deck - Bony Walks the Plank to the Wake - Dutch Sea Apples Sliced Irish Torpedoes - Cascarets - “Damn the Torpedoes! Go Ahead” - Sea Cow off Madeira - Spud Chippies Burnside Bullets - -[Sidenote: Bumboat Along Side, Sir] - - Lyman Root Punch - - Fruit Scouse - Vesuvius Ice “Up all——” - - Pass to Leeward - Roquefort and Club - Black Jack - -[Illustration] - - “Divine in hookas, glorious in pipe. - When tipped in amber, mellow, rich, and ripe - Like other charmers, wooing the caress - Most dazzlingly when daring In full dress, - Yet thy true lovers more admire by far - Thy naked beauties—Give me a cigar!” - - Boatswain’s Mate BYRON, “The Island,” II. - -Two hours were passed “Off Yarnland.” Governor Roberts brought the -division men to their feet when he told them that he intended to order -out the battalion when the presentation took place of the silver service -voted by the General Assembly for the new battleship Connecticut. -Senator Bulkeley told the familiar and always stirring story of Admiral -Bunce’s splendid work in taking a monitor around Cape Horn. - -[Illustration: - - LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ROBERT D. CHAPIN -] - -In the early spring Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Robert D. Chapin succeeded -to the command of the division. In the nine years he had been in the -division he had ascended the ladder, round by round, as seaman, -coxswain, gunner’s mate, second and first class, and boatswain’s mate, -first class. He had served on about every brand of standing committee -which the organization had utilized. Later he was appointed naval aide -with the rank of lieutenant-commander. - -Again in the early summer a racing crew was essayed, with Boatswain’s -Mate Hogan in charge of the training, the course extending from an -imaginary line off the old pumping station below Riverside Park to a -point off the East Hartford bank about a quarter of a mile above the -railroad bridge. Training was punctuated by swims and dives from a -spring plank in the meadow bank a short distance from the bridge. - - ❦ - - - - - COURSE ELEVEN - ❦ - THE MINNEAPOLIS - - -Mr. Chapin’s cruise was on the Minneapolis, sister ship to the Columbia, -and it started on August 25, 1906, from New Haven harbor. The ship -steamed down the Sound and by Race Rock Light and anchored off Block -Island in the evening with the port anchor, in seventeen fathoms, sixty -fathoms of chain out. A protected cruiser, the Minneapolis did not rate -a band, but she carried one till the Dolphin came along and commandeered -the musicians. The next day the ship steamed out to sea for a hundred -miles and then after a diversity of courses came to anchor in Menemsha -Bight. Target practice, while the Minneapolis was steaming at a rate of -ten knots, made one afternoon’s work. In it the division’s team struck -hard times, but in the signal contest later the division redeemed -itself, Quartermaster Palmer being an easy first among the signal force -of the battalion in the Ardois branch and Quartermaster Ferris making an -especially fine showing with the semaphore work. The division has for -several years been strong in the signal branch. - -When Governor Woodruff chose a naval aide it was Mr. Chapin who was -selected for that high honor, and when the next commanding officer of -the Second was nominated, Dr. Beach moved up to a lieutenant’s stripes. -Beginning in the ranks Dr. Beach went upon the staff as assistant -surgeon and then back to the Second as ensign. - -For a number of years the division had combined with other commands in -the Elm Street Armory to attend an annual military service in a Hartford -church, but in the following December it decided to attend a separate or -sailors’ service, and the church of the Rev. Dr. Main was selected. It -is a question why this was chosen, but a legend has it that the choice -was on account of the nautical hint in the pastor’s name and that in the -denomination, the Baptist. In a sermon on intelligent patriotism Dr. -Main interspersed a number of sailorlike yarns to illustrate several -points. He told the story about Nelson’s disregard of Parker’s signal at -the battle of Copenhagen; and that of John Paul Jones’s answer in the -fight with the Serapis. - -[Illustration: - - LIEUTENANT CARROLL C. BEACH -] - -One of the most loyal and faithful members the division ever included -had enlisted a short time before in the United States Navy, Seaman John -J. A. Connor, and was now on the battleship Connecticut on the always -memorable trip around the world, bombarding friends with welcome post -cards. - -The eleventh anniversary banquet was enjoyed in the Hotel Garde in -conjunction with Admiral Bunce Section, Navy League of the United -States. Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich told about his personal interest in -the Naval Militia, an adjunct necessary to the Navy, as he declared, and -Corporation Counsel Arthur L. Shipman talked as an attorney to the -gathering, telling about the influence of the navy in Guam and Samoa, -where the Navy was still administering the government. - - ❦ - - - - - COURSE TWELVE - ❦ - AGAIN THE PRAIRIE - - -Space has been economized for the chronicling of the next cruise, a trip -on our old friend the Prairie to Hampton Roads. For several seasons the -naval militiamen had prospered with running mates from the regulars, but -for a reason to be made evident in the next sentence the pair-off system -was not pursued this time. The Prairie had a skeleton crew of 145 and -the battalion numbered about fifty above those figures. The start for -the run down the coast was made by way of Montauk Point, rounding which -the Prairie put her helm over for the first long leg on a course of S. -58 degrees W. Early in the evening the wind began rising and old hands -watched the rookies for symptoms of internal disturbance. The journey -down was a welcome innovation and the passing of Five-Fathom Bank -Lightship and of Winter Quarter Lightship were events. When the Cape -Charles Lightship came abeam the Prairie went on various courses until -she dropped anchor off the Chamberlin Hotel at Old Point Comfort. During -a part of the run soundings were made by the Thompson sounding machine, -a method that had been studied in former cruises, but with less interest -than on this. The Jamestown ter-centenary was in progress that summer -and liberty to an unusual extent was allowed to the battalion. One -afternoon about fifty members of the division visited the Connecticut -building at the exposition. Most of them signed their names in the -register, Boatswain’s Mate Perkins at first directing the writing class -and, when he tired, another petty officer relieving him. It was with joy -nearly equal to signing the pay roll that the sailors affixed their -signatures. Manager Curtis greeted the men with a graceful courtesy -rivalled only by Commissioner Barber’s graceful urbanity. Maps of the -exposition grounds were served out. By using these and keeping the lead -going and working their jaw tackle, the men made shift to reach proper -destinations. - -[Illustration: - - LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) CHARLES L. HOGAN -] - -The same afternoon the men gravitated to a military carnival on the -parade. An impression prevailed in the division that the division’s -tug-of-war team could have outpulled the team which won in the carnival. - -In years gone by cruise clubs had been launched, for instance the -Ham-Bone Club at Fort Wright and the Fore-Top on the Hartford. In -Jamestown the Kimona Club was organized with Lieutenant Hinckley at its -head. It consisted of a president, a vice-president, a secretary and a -chancellor of the exchequer, with an understudy for each. - -On another afternoon Commissioner Barber made his return call. He -witnessed hammock and dunnage bag inspection, a “ceremony” which our men -loved as cordially as the devil loves holy water. He saw, also, -Underwood typewriters in the paymaster’s office and rejoiced at the use -of a Hartford product. - -In the fall information came that the Elfrida was to leave Connecticut -waters and that the unarmored gunboat Machias was to take her place as -the battalion’s practice ship. The new ship was built in Bath, Me., in -1892. She is of steel, has two masts. Her length is 204 feet, her beam -32 feet, her mean draft 12 feet, her displacement 1,777 tons, her net -tonnage 398, her speed 15½ knots and her horse power 1,484. She has -accommodations for nine officers and about 132 men, or about six times -as many men as the Elfrida could sleep. - -A Christmas tree in the division parlor brought joy to all hands and -astonishment to not a few. It was accompanied by an innocuous punch of -pink tea caliber, followed by Mother Carey sandwiches, saltpeter and -frozen rating badges (Neapolitan ice cream). Skylights were closed, all -glims were doused and current was turned on for small electric lamps in -a hemlock, which had been decorated with marlinspikes, rope yarns, and -cornucopias. Lieutenant (Junior Grade) James A. Evans, rigged gaily as -Santa Claus, served out gifts from the break of the quarter deck, -assisted by Boatswain’s Mates Perkins and Wyllie and Gunner’s Mate -Dickerman. Mr. Hinckley received a miniature Tillie Hadley. Mr. Hogan -was presented with a milk wagon. To Seaman Barnes was given a rake. -Gunner’s Mate Dickerman, who held the championship of the fleet at the -deck game of bowling, was helped to a children’s set of tenpins. -Quartermaster Palmer, impressario of the Banzai orchestra, drew an -accordion. A village character in the company received an allowance of -jaw tackle. A certain apprentice seaman was the recipient of a “hammock -ladder,” which dates back to the berth deck of Father Noah’s Ark. - -March 17, 1908, an order was issued from the adjutant-general’s office -marking the passing of the “battalion.” The official title of the force -was changed to Naval Militia, Connecticut National Guard. Ratings were -officially prescribed, those of the first class in the division being -the following: Master-at-arms, boatswain’s mate, gunner’s mate, -machinist’s mate and water-tender. - -May 21 the Tillie Hadley was taken to Saybrook and exchanged for the -First Division’s steam cutter. Later the Tillie went to the New York -Navy Yard. The departure of the old steam whaleboat marked the passing -of one of the company’s time-honored institutions. The boat’s successor -is variously known as the Hallie Tidley and the Merry Widow. - -The observance of a division memorial day began this year, actives and -veterans assembling at noon, May 30th, for a service, and parading in -the afternoon as part of the escort to the Grand Army of the Republic. - -In midsummer a movement came to reorganize the Veteran Association. A -meeting was held July 24th and the project advanced at a second meeting -held a week later, when the matter of participating in the approaching -dedication of Hartford Bridge was discussed. Former Ensign Fred E. -Bosworth was chief oiler of the machinery. - - ❦ - - - - - COURSE THIRTEEN - ❦ - AND AGAIN THE PRAIRIE - - -Once more it was on the Prairie that the company cruised. It was the -fourth time, once to Bar Harbor, once to Penobscot Bay, and once to -Hampton Roads. So often has the ship been the company’s floating home, -that long-service members are more familiar with her than with any other -ship in the Navy, unless it be the Machias. - -With the company were men from naval militia in New York City and -Brooklyn, congenial companions, with more of naval wardrobe than the -Second Division showed. The cruise was mostly in the Sound. The ship was -engaged in squadron maneuvers. - -A flotilla of six torpedo boats accompanied the squadron, as did also -four submarines. Boats of this kind were in 1908 comparatively new to -many in the company, and when Ensign Hogan found an opportunity to make -a descent in a submarine he embraced it. - -Back in Hartford the men grew busy in preparing for the Bridge -Dedication, the most important festivity which the city has ever -conducted, to which the command voted to invite its old nautical guest, -H Company of Springfield, down. - -The dedication opened October 6 with the firing of a salute, by the -division, of course. In the evening the division paraded in a historical -pageant, the men representing men-o’-wars men of the conflict of 1812. - -The battalion paraded in the giant military procession of October 8 as a -landing party, marching in white hats, and being among the warmest -favorites in the long column. In the afternoon it banqueted in the Y. M. -C. A. with H Company men, for whom the division’s poet laureate had -evolved a lyric, of which the following is a specimen verse: - - “When dinner’s o’er, we then will go, then will go, then will go, - When dinner’s o’er, we then will go, to East Hartford’s sandy shore.” - -While the company was beating up Pearl Street, an automobilist rammed -the hospital apprentice, an incident which developed an aftermath in the -superior court when with a former Philippine soldier, Sergeant Benedict -Holden, as attorney and counselor and proctor in admiralty, McIntyre got -a verdict. In his argument Sergeant Holden commended the division as a -patriotic command in which the city might well take pride. - - - ANOTHER CHRISTMAS TREE - - Jan’y 4, 1909—Fourth Day Out. - - Lat. 41° 49′ N. Long. 71° 36′ W. Bar., rising; Wind, E. S. E.; - Atmos., Smoky. All hands happy. Thus ends this Day.—[Extract from - the Division’s Log.] - -At eight bells in the second dog watch all hands were piped to the -fo’c’sle. On the forecastle-head two screen cloths were rigged on a -sliding gunther brace. Being drawn, these disclosed Master-at-Arms -Perkins in the capacity of Neptune disguised as Santa Claus. By the heel -of the bowsprit were the crosstrees, which had been sent down and rigged -with rope yarns and stores from the canteen. Around the tree and along -both rails packages were stowed facing inboard, made fast with marlin -and manila. Pipes, matches and tobacco were served out and the smoking -lamp was lighted. Then gifts were passed out. Dr. Beach received a box -of pills, Coxswain Burns a masthead light, Master-at-Arms Perkins twin -dolls, one young Benedict a toy baby carriage, and Watertender Lewis a -slice bar. Gifts wise and otherwise were passed till the supply was -exhausted. - -Skylarking such as this varied the serious work of the drill season. -Although the membership of the command from time to time changed to some -extent, the majority of the men had been in the division for years and -were fairly proficient in seamanship as well as in the ordinary armory -routine, and it must not be imagined that their fun interfered with -their nautical work. - -The diversity of the fun is proved when allusion is made to a game -between the division’s new basketball team and the Boston Bloomer -Girls’. It was chronicled that not a member of the girls’ team lost a -backcomb or displaced a “rat,” although their hair was coiled like the -flemished-down end of the Elfrida’s topping lift. - -The indoor meet was the last held in the old armory. It was as -creditable as any in the long and popular series and went as smoothly as -desired. - -June 13 was observed as Memorial Sunday, the first which the division -formally kept. The company reported at the armory to act as escort to -the veteran company in a parade to Spring Grove Cemetery. - - ❦ - - - - - COURSE FOURTEEN - ❦ - THE MACHIAS - - -So near is the history drawing to the present that merely a bare outline -is given here of the next two years. The cruise of the summer of 1909 -was on the Machias and took the division to quaint old Provincetown. The -Pilgrims’ Tower and the swimming linger in the men’s memory. - -[Illustration: - - ENSIGN FRANK H. BURNS -] - -Members of the company enjoyed three days’ duty at the Hudson-Fulton -celebration in New York City. In December the company transferred to the -new state armory and the indoor meet drew nearly three thousand -spectators. - - - - - COURSE FIFTEEN - ❦ - THE LOUISIANA - - -The cruise of 1910 was on the battleship Louisiana and it carried the -division around the Island of Bermuda. April 29 the division’s -crackerjack wall-scaling team won the world’s championship, in the -Twenty-third Regiment Armory in Brooklyn, N. Y., over three competing -teams. - - - THE FOURTH DIVISION - NAVAL MILITIA CONNECTICUT NATIONAL GUARD - -Soon after the forming of the First Division an engineer force was -outlined and then established and this in time became known as an -engineer division. The organizing of the Second Division had its -influence on the so-called engineer division. In time the branch as a -separate organization seemed to lapse, although its importance was -increasing. - -In January, 1908, an artificer division was called for, in an order from -the adjutant-general’s office, to have a maximum enlisted strength of -forty, and Chief Engineer William G. Hinckley was placed in command. -Commander Cornwell directed Mr. Hinckley and Assistant Engineer Osborne -A. Day to enlist and organize the division. Warrant Machinists Noble, -Rathgeber and Larkin of the staff were to report to Mr. Hinckley for -duty. Mr. Noble was a Second Division alumnus. February 4 Mr. Hinckley -submitted the rates. Corinth L. LaRock of Hartford was early appointed a -chief machinist’s mate. - -[Illustration: - - LIEUTENANT WILLIAM G. HINCKLEY -] - -A. J. German and Walter B. Gordon of Hartford have also served in the -artificer or engineer division, the former becoming a warrant machinist -and the latter a chief machinist’s mate. - - ❦ - - - - - APPENDIX A - ❦ - NECROLOGY - - - Lieutenant FELTON PARKER - - Charter member. First commander. - Spanish War Veteran. Annapolis, - 1882. Member first Greeley relief - expedition on the “Yantic.” - - Died December 22, 1900, of fall - from his horse. Buried in South - Lancaster, Mass. - - Quartermaster (Second Class) THOMAS S. CHENEY - - Charter member. - - Died February 8, 1898, of - appendicitis. Buried in South - Manchester, Conn. - - Coxswain PHILIP D. BURNHAM - - Charter member. - - Died May 19, 1903, of tuberculosis. - Buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, - Hartford, Conn. - - Seaman GEORGE BISCHOFF - - Athlete. - - Died 1904. Buried in Woodlawn - Cemetery, New York City. - - Seaman GEORGE F. COLBY - - Spanish War Veteran. - - Died May 17, 1903, of pneumonia. - Buried in Mt. Pocono, Pa. - - Seaman EDWARD J. DORAN - - Spanish War Veteran. - - Died July 3, 1910, of appendicitis. - Buried in New Britain, Conn. - - Seaman WILLIAM A. GEER - - Spanish War Veteran. - - Died 1910. Buried in - Middlefield, Conn. - - Seaman JAMES HAWLEY - - Spanish War Veteran. Assistant - sculptor of Corning fountain. - - Died December 11, 1899. Buried in - New York. - - Seaman WILLIAM M. HURD - - Spanish War Veteran. - - Died 1909 of tropical fever. Buried - in Middle Haddam, Conn. - - Seaman ROMIE B. KUEHNS - - Died April 7, 1911, of pneumonia. - Buried in New York. - - Seaman ALFRED H. SAUNDERS - - Buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, - Hartford, Conn. - - Seaman LOUIE P. STRONG - - Died May 30, 1911, of tuberculosis. - Buried in Old North Cemetery, - Hartford, Conn. - - ❦ - - - - - APPENDIX B - ❦ - LIST OF MEMBERS SINCE ORGANIZATION - - -The following is a list of members since the organization of the -division, compiled from rosters and roll books and various records, and -is believed to be substantially accurate: - - - A - - Alden, H. W. 1896 - Allen, C. D. 1900 - Alexander, L. P. 1900 - Appley, 1900 - Abbe, R. L. 1901 - Adams, L. W. 1902 - Arnold, F. W. 1903 - Alling, M. D. 1904 - Amos, W. H. 1905 - Ashwell, H. B. 1906 - Andrews, D. H. 1907 - Austin, H. E. 1911 - - - B - - Bosworth, F. E. 1896 - Burnett, A. E. 1896 - Bissell, H. G. 1896 - Burnham, P. D. 1896 - Bailey, C. L. 1896 - Baxter, G. S. 1896 - Beal, G. W. 1896 - Bevins, V. L. 1896 - Bigelow, H. W. 1896 - Berry, H. 1898 - Baldwin, H. S. 1898 - Beamish, J. F. 1898 - Brewer, A. L. 1897 - Brewer, A. R. 1897 - Brewer, E. J. 1897 - Bletcher, F. O. 1897 - Brinley, G. 1897 - Brinley, J. G. W. 1897 - Blakeslee, F. G. 1897 - Buck, H. R. 1897 - Beers, R. C. 1897 - Burke, J. F. 1897 - Barber, A. W. 1898 - Buck, J. S. 1899 - Burnett, H. E. 1899 - Brooks, H. D. 1899 - Bragg, F. L. 1899 - Bidwell, D. D. 1899 - Bonner, J. A. 1900 - Brooks, C. M. 1900 - Burke, C. E. 1900 - Bannon, J. E. 1900 - Barlow, F. J. 1900 - Bland, A. L. 1900 - Bush, J. S. 1900 - Beach, Carroll C. 1901 - Barnes, C. S., Jr. 1902 - Bischoff, G. 1903 - Blair, G. E. 1902 - Barnes, H. E. 1902 - Bassett, E. E. 1902 - Beckley, H. C. 1904 - Bryant, H. C. 1904 - Beach, O. L. 1905 - Bourn, K. C. 1905 - Bloomer, H. J. 1905 - Burns, F. H. 1905 - Burns, W. F., Jr. 1906 - Burr, H. R. 1906 - Brown, H. E. 1907 - Banning, B. J. 1908 - Barnes, E. L. 1910 - Brennan, A. J. 1910 - Burke, T. F. 1910 - - - C - - Cochran, L. B. 1896 - Crowell, E. H. 1896 - Cheney, T. S. 1896 - Caswell, L. S. 1896 - Chapman, J. W. 1896 - Case, A. L. 1896 - Cuntz, H. F. 1896 - Chapin, R. D. 1897 - Caswell, C. H. 1897 - Case, H. B. 1898 - Cutting, A. S. 1898 - Coggeshall, M. H. 1898 - Colby, G. F. 1898 - Case, H. A. 1899 - Chaffee, D. G. 1899 - Clinch, E. E. 1899 - Cadman, G. B. 1900 - Carney, J. B. 1900 - Coe, C. S. 1900 - Crowley, A. J. 1900 - Camp, H. P. 1900 - Cotter, W. J. 1900 - Currier, H. D. 1900 - Cunningham, J. W. M. 1901 - Cooney, F. J. 1901 - Connors, J. J. A. 1902 - Carroll, L. J. 1902 - Caverly, H. T. 1902 - Cooley, J. W. 1902 - Cadman, R. M. 1904 - Calder, W. P. 1904 - Chappell, F. N. 1904 - Casey, E. J. 1904 - Cotter, W. B. 1905 - Carter, J. S. 1906 - Case, R. W. 1906 - Comstock, J. C. 1906 - Case, H. E. 1907 - Case, R. U. 1907 - Coburn, F. A. 1908 - Craig, J. 1908 - Covel, R. F. 1910 - - - D - - Duff, R. R. 1896 - Doran, E. J. 1896 - Dimock, S. K. 1897 - Drury, H. W. 1898 - Dimock, I. 1898 - Dix, L. R. 1899 - De Lucco, J. 1900 - Dickenson, L. R. 1900 - Driver, J. F. 1900 - Devine, W. W. 1901 - Doebler, T. J. 1901 - Downes, W. G. 1901 - Dermont, W. 1902 - Dungan, L. E. 1902 - Dickerman, C. W. 1902 - Dalton, H. A. 1903 - Day, H. A. 1903 - Diamond, J. E. 1903 - Diehl, G. 1904 - Duffy, F. L. 1904 - Dunn, L. G. 1904 - Devine, L. H. 1905 - Duane, W. J. 1906 - Duffin, J. B. 1908 - Devine, A. H. 1910 - Dagle, H., Jr. 1911 - - - E - - Evans, H. M. 1901 - Entress, W. W. 1904 - Evans, J. A. 1904 - Eichelman, W. 1907 - Elsdon, P. 1909 - - - F - - Field, E. B. 1896 - Field, F. E. 1896 - Filley, W. J. 1896 - Franke, P. 1898 - Freeman, S. G. 1898 - Forest, G. C. - Foster, G. 1898 - Ferguson, H. D. 1899 - Foley, T. W. 1901 - Flanigan, G. W. 1902 - Ferris, M. A. 1903 - Flanigan, W. H. 1903 - Flynn, R. J. 1904 - Fletcher, A. R. 1905 - Flynn, H. T. 1905 - Flynn, W. J. 1906 - Fagan, J. M. 1907 - Fournier, O. J. 1907 - Fagan, F. C. 1909 - Flynn, G. T. 1911 - - - G - - Gaines, D. A. 1896 - Gilbert, E. R. 1896 - Goodrich, R. M. 1896 - Gabrielle, B. L. 1897 - Gallup, C. M. 1898 - Geer, W. A. 1898 - Grundshaw, E. J. 1896 - Goodridge, T. W. 1897 - Gordon, F. G. 1897 - Gillette, F. 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