• 5:30 am ROLL CALL• 6:00 am BREAKFAST• 7:00 am TENTS ARE STRUCK•10:00 am MARCH TO RAILROAD STATION

12:00 Train leaves Bridgeport

(28 cars drawn by 2 locomotives)

4:20 pm Arrival in New York City

March through city to 23rd Street

where steamer, Kill von Krull

awaits.

SEPTEMBER 3, 1862

RIDING THE RAILS• TROOPS WERE

MARCHED TO THE STATION ESCORTED BY GOV. BUCKINGHAM AND CITY AUTHORITIES

• AT EACH STATION CROWDS SAW THEM OFF WITH ARTILLERY SALUTES AND CHEERS

• IN SOUTH NORWALK, A BULLET WENT ASTRAY IN THE ARTILLERY SALUTE

• THE ARM OF VOLUNTEER JOSEPH HAWKIN WAS SHATTERED AND HE LATER DIED OF HIS WOUND

THE MEN BOARDED THE CAMDEN &AMBOY STEAMER, KILL VON KRULL, BOUND FOR

ELIZABETHPORT, NEW JERSEY

FROM ELIZABETHPORT, THE MEN BOARDED YET ANOTHER TRAIN BOUND FOR BALTIMORE, ARRIVING IN THAT CITY AT 11:00 PM.

THE SOLDIERS’ “GEAR”

CAMP ROUTINE: FORT MARSHALL

5:00 AM ROLL CALL5:30 DRILL7:00 BREAKFAST8:30-10:30 DRILL12:00 DINNER2:00-5:00 DRILL5:30 DRESS PARADE6:00 SUPPER9:00 ROLL CALL9:30 “TAPS” (LIGHTS OUT)

DRAWING OF FORT MARSHALL (BALTIMORE) BY HENRY HUSS OF THE 17TH CT

FORT MARSHALL (BALTIMORE) FROM OFFICIAL POST CARD

LAYING CORDUROY

ROADS

BUILDING EARTHWORKS

BY SEPT. 2ND, 150 SOLDIERS OF THE 17TH

WERE ON THE SICK LIST

CHARLIE SMALL, AGE 26, OF COMPANY C WAS THE FIRST TO DIE. HE WAS SENT TO THE HOSPITAL WITH “BALTIMORE FEVER” (TYPHOID + OTHER DISEASES) AND DIED SIX DAYS LATER ON OCT 2ND.

THE 5TH NY HEAVY ARTILLERY IS ALREADY AT THE GARRISON. THEY WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH US. THEY THINK WE ARE A BUNCH OF LAZY, SPOILED, WHINING BABIES.

AND WE ARE!

COMPLAININGPOUTING SULKING

GROANINGWHINING

WHOOSY-ING

GENERAL WOOL TO COLONEL NOBLE:

GET THE 17GET THE 17THTH CONNECTICUT OUT OF CONNECTICUT OUT OF

MY TOWN BY NOON MY TOWN BY NOON TOMORROW…TOMORROW…

OR ELSE!OR ELSE!

WE ARE ESCORTED TO THE STATION BY THE DRUM CORPS OF THE 5TH NEW YORK, HEADED TO

WASHINGTON.