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Roster of Company E, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers

Roster of Company D, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers

Roster of Company C, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers

Roster of Company B, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers

Roster of Company A, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers.

After six months of no pay, the paymaster finally arrives with pay for the soldiers. However, they’re deep into Louisiana… how do they get the pay back home to help their families? Written by Henry Goodell, he describes his voyage with the money, from the Troops to New Orleans.

By request of Major Thomas McManus I will give a brief account of the country of lower Louisiana and the battle of Irish Bend, as given by him in an address at St. Patrick’s Church, Collinsville, April 23, 1893, and published in the Hartford Post of the date of April 14, 1913.

In this brief sketch of the Twenty-fifth Regiment, of which Colonel Bissell is the author, you will see that he was very proud of the men under his command and if you could have seen him drilling his regiment at that time, you would know that he fairly worshiped them. I am sure the men would have followed him into any fire against overwhelming odds.

After the announcement of the election of Mr. Lincoln was confirmed, the people, the followers of the ultra Democratic faction, became wild with excitement, and the talk of war, war to the knife and knife to the hilt, was persistent in every little group of men that assembled together on the streets or in the public offices.

The Indian Territory occupied an extremely important position in the great war; it was the extreme right flank of the Federal operations from the Potomac to the western boundary of the Indian country, and the turning of that flank by the Confederates would have been a severe blow to Southern Kansas; the Union Indian Brigade was an important factor in holding it intact.