New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1928, Page 2

| NEGRO EX-WARRIOR RECALLS DAYS OF ‘61 J. W. Halsted May Be Lone * Survivor of Mass. Regiment ville, May ored troops woul fore the war was o that we were * chuckles Jar 5 when he with oth ion of t em o troops had to tehword th ol Hulsted, s War with a negro lLieves that he is rvivor of he | b days when ziving their lives nion Born a free man November 28 voung H in 41h Massach ntry y 23, while working in Springfield. He was 17 years o o tme. His vegin ailed fro Boston and, a t-day voy- arrived off Hi « he troubles of the re t be- immediately, for the authorities vould not allow land and thr e into the sea if t The iment transported sev: ny colored troops 1o ate drive i re o 11 miles up 1 at Be Ft. Wagi i - ot and dis ‘The Charge on cupyi ter 0 ieral o plan by : taking sent s to ile from Fort ment saw its finally about half Here ajor action in the gallant but s charge upon Ft. Wagner on July 17, when S50 of Halst ompanions hur cmselves at the alive at Halsted fighting re left day. ort and only 150 we end of a bloody Limself was wounded in ti its colonel, lost while the regiment tobert Shaw, who was killed after niounting the rampart of the fort. Bitterly enraged by the presence of negroes in the opposing forees, the Confederate defenders did not content themsely with repelling ihe assault but were determined fo Will as many northerners as possible. “hiey armed themselves with poles : ten feet long and bearing hooks and knives on the outer end. Wi they hooked the colored troops as they topped the rampart, pulled them down within the fort, and there ran the knives througl them, The colonel was killed in this manner. “Thie Union troops were undiscour- They dug entrenchments and tled down to a siege which cul- rainated in the surrender of the tort on September 7. Here they remain- d about a year, remodelling the fort and the nearby Battery Gregg and ounting their own guns as the sor L the NLW siege of C under In t |to Florida, but they were got in battie | returned to iy n ITA LN DALY HERALD, ' Citation for Service Under Napoleon were still on the vord that the rey ansferred to = n sent Negroes Chan and ki wicz of 83 perial Or r of the Legion of Honor 1\;_‘m~ orees | caor strest 1s the rtifies that Sebire, Jean, Jacque on Morris islanc bt Armand, soldier of the 46th division I making expeditions from there, | Of & citation given to of combatan ing scrved during iment had to take its n | grandiath Jean period o 2 to 18 has re- aving in camp. On one occusion | sebire ived the Ste. Helene Medal.” when it was the 34th's turn to re- | exten, to 1813 Mrs. Natunewicz, who is a elerk main behir artillery comi- | army of Napoleon, it the Boston Store, received the mander 1 S| the citation was a document from her father. Despite | rrom the He it it is in a state of good pres- his artille The citatior 1 above, bears ation, The owner Lelieves some ent b for! the following inscription historical socicty might be interested d e heirf . Grand Council of the Im- ' in having it mp. s considered a honorable de- — — — EATEN il, and their selection showed the |, . favor which the negroes had gained | =y d was married on Aug- with their former critics. Che | b e e hite regiments treated us Jijx T £ He s one dat Nie @ soon as we got acquainted,” Mr. = ¢ Halsted added, while telling these | \V/1Am ONell o gx el l]N F[]UR [;HAR[iES expericl | William and George Halsted, who | Freed Men Misused Liberty are pupils at the local High school regiments composed of freed | [y, Halsted is one of only two mien did not earn such enviable re- surviving Civil War ve siding in Plainville terans now re those former of north- | 0 uegroes, Mr. Halsted says, and the latter often suffered by con- | fusion between the two. The Union | TTiNity Commencement putations 4 overnment organized bodies of | Speakers Are Named tre J e he 1wer slaves c i ERNEA T, A0 SR "l‘;”‘ ! Hartford, May 24 (P—Speakers at srated when southern te W > mmencene cek occupied, and these blacks misused R4 Canmentamian, SEL Wl college will be President George D. Olds of Amherst g nator Frederick C. Walcott of Norfolk, and Kev. Her- bert Parrish, rector of Christ Epi their unaccustomed freedom. When | L the 54th was ordered to Darien, Gi in 1864, it was preceded Py two regi- ments of freed men. These burned | the town and the antagonism which | oo Foy ol TUNCG Brunswick, N. was arousdd in the north was mis- | . s directed against all colored |J: Commencement this year at " Trinity w se June 18. “Our regiment didn't apply | TTiRLY Will be June 1 to anything” Mr. Halsted | President Fmeritus Olds will De asserts positively, and s that the |the speaker at the comme ment ises in Alumni hall and Senator leott will speak on the campus June Dr. Par xe A il town ater of war 0 far bso- burning of from the th a lutely inexcusable.” on S\‘n«l-l,\i He relates a humorous incident | Will preach the haccalaurea r- in the burning of Darien. The pris-|mon in Christ church cathedr: oners in the town jail were just sit- { Sunday night. £ down to a fine dinner w flames broke out, and their en t suards Famous Football Star ed. They then had the chofce of ~pe s . making a dash for freedom or par- | Is Slightly Injured | taking of their meal, and they de-| Philadelphia, May 34 (Up)— cided upon the former. The army |Harry (Pud) Connaughton, 1428 all- authorities recognized the difference | American football guard, wus burn- between the two varieties of colored | slightly toeday while fighting a vegiments, the old veteran says, and | fire in his home, His vounger Poastfully states t at the freed men | brother and sister, Joseph and Mary, “didn’'t rank with us” |also were injured slightly. The Atfter the war Mr, Halsted return- | house was damaged by smoke and €4 to Farmington, where hc spent | water, about 40 years. Tor 13 y he! Connaughton was voted the most was employed Miss Porter's | valuable player in football when he school, and all his work has been|was graduated from Georgetown |cut-of-doors. Coming to Plainville | University in 1927. He played pro- he was caretaker at the West come- | feastonal football with the Frankford tery for this up a years bt had to give | Yellowjackets and was football ! ort while ago when his | coach for the St. Joseph's eleven. thor con liqu responsibility 1 costs car with improper ma costs suspended, and Officer J. W. Politis testified vestigated | curred in front of ¢ | shor lian niglh ove the 3 ‘Syracuse, N. Y., Man Respon- sible for West End Crash ou ¥ rt or; n rtly 1t Madory, Newell str fined by Judg tod costs and They IZmil Mixa of 1 law four cc of use. v H follow suspeng after an suspended, Hell erg that an accident, after 10 found a car for d guilty of violuting t! tor vehicl: Junts, 118 X ¥ P. 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