File:History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time (1901) (14576077928).jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file ‎(2,832 × 2,076 pixels, file size: 893 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: Beaufort Arsenal

Identifier: historyoffirstli01beec (find matches)
Title: History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beecher, Herbert W De Morgan, John, ed
Subjects: United States. Army. Connecticut Artillery Battery, 1st (1861-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: New York, A. T. De La Mare Ptg. and Pub. Co., Ltd
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
WARREN H. BISSELL,of Hebron.Enlisted Oct. 3, 1861; musteredin Oct. 26, 1861 ; elected Corpo-ral ; discharged Oct. 25, 1864,time expired.
Text Appearing After Image:
Beaufort Arsenal
CJ FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1861—1865 89 The guns, caissons and limbers were taken off first, the horses beingleft till these were on land. On the following morning the horses were to be landed. It was likelyto be a slow process, for to hoist a hundred and fifty or more horses fromthe hold and lower them to a flatboat where they would have to be securedwould be a work of time. The ready wit of Lieut. Porter came to the rescue. Hoist them to the upper deck and throw them overboard, washis order. Men were stationed along the shore to look out for the horses andcapture them as they landed, and then the work commenced. All day theexhausted horses were being hoisted up one by one and thrown into Beau-fort River. The water was warm, the animals feverish and many a poorhorse swam about enjoying the pleasant bath for a long time before hewould seek land. It was a novel method of landing them, but proved anexcellent one. There were about a hundred and forty horses belonging to the Batteryand thi

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Date
Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14576077928/

Author Internet Archive Book Images
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Other versions
Volume
InfoField
1
Flickr tags
InfoField
  • bookid:historyoffirstli01beec
  • bookyear:1901
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Beecher__Herbert_W
  • bookauthor:De_Morgan__John__ed
  • booksubject:United_States__Army__Connecticut_Artillery_Battery__1st__1861_1865_
  • booksubject:United_States____History_Civil_War__1861_1865_Regimental_histories
  • bookpublisher:New_York__A__T__De_La_Mare_Ptg__and_Pub__Co___Ltd
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
  • booksponsor:Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:113
  • bookcollection:library_of_congress
  • bookcollection:civilwardocuments
  • bookcollection:americana
Flickr posted date
InfoField
28 July 2014


Licensing

This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.

Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images at https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14576077928. It was reviewed on 30 September 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.

30 September 2015

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

media type

image/jpeg

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current20:16, 30 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 20:16, 30 September 20152,832 × 2,076 (893 KB)SteinsplitterBotBot: Image rotated by 90°
19:53, 30 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 19:53, 30 September 20152,076 × 2,846 (903 KB)Fæ== {{int:filedesc}} == {{information |description={{en|1=<br> '''Identifier''': historyoffirstli01beec ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2Fhistoryoffirstli01beec%2F fin...
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:History_of_the_First_Light_Battery_Connecticut_Volunteers,_1861-1865._Personal_records_and_reminiscences._The_story_of_the_battery_from_its_organization_to_the_present_time_(1901)_(14576077928).jpg"