Excerpt from Message of His Excellency Phineas C. Lounsbury, Governor of Connecticut, to the General Assembly Session of 1887 The last General Assembly authorized the compiling of a new catalogue of Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, and the procuring from the General Government of the records of service of Connecticut soldiers in the previ ous wars of the Nation. Satisfactory progress has been made in this work, and rec ords of great value, as evidence or reference, are becoming the property of the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.