GDG- Winter Stomp

[Chuck Teague]

> >> I will add that none of the accounts from the Fourteenth Connecticut
> Infantry
> of Smyth's brigade even hint at an assault on their position along
> Cemetery
> Ridge on the 2nd, let along being overrun.  And I have read a good many 14
> CVI
> accounts, including those written for publication and some for private
> consumption only. Bruce


The 14th Connecticut was in support of Woodruff's Battery until moved to the
left to support Arnold's Battery, at the position where its monument now
stands. Major Ellis in his OR indicates that this occurred sometime between
noon and night, but is not explicit when. Curiously, Ellis told Bachelder it
was *"the next day we were moved a little further to the left... being to
the right of and supporting Arnold's Rhode Island Battery."* Chaplain
Stevens of the 14th Connecticut indicated that when the Confederate attack
of July 2 was made *"the regiment was still lying in support of Woodruff's
battery." *
**
I'd be interested in the specifics of any accounts that clarify when the
14th Connecticut assumed the position in support of Arnold.