Hidden History of Connecticut Union Soldiers by Banks John

Author:Banks, John [Banks, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2015-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

A newspaper clipping below his image describes George Marsh’s fate at Antietam. Connecticut State Library .

Before and during the war, George Marsh financially supported his sickly father, Guy (pictured). Author’s collection .

In rich detail, George also wrote home about his war experiences, telling his parents of skirmishing against Rebels, frustrations and boredom with army life and about prisoners of war. “Today I have tattoo’d about 2 dozen men with India ink just to keep myself busy,” he wrote in one letter. 175 In another, he wrote about a former Union POW, who had a bayonet put through his thigh by a Rebel for putting his head over a line to vomit. The culprit, Marsh wrote, was a “boy not over 14 years old.”

After the Battle of New Bern, on March 14, 1862, Marsh described a scene that “beggars description.” In a rifle pit, he counted thirteen Rebel caps, each with a bullet hole through the front. The shot-up trees on the battlefield, he wrote, looked like “old apple tree stubs after a woodpecker has been at work on it.” As he gave a wounded Rebel water, another wounded Confederate loaded his rifle, fired and missed Marsh, who wasn’t aware of the incident until he was told by several comrades.

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