"Youth, pride in such a service, and the novel duties and scenes in which they were soon to act gave the "enchantment of distance" to a life filled with hardship, danger, and death."
Colonel William H. Noble

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Contents

Introduction
Major Allen G. Brady
Sgt. Edwin O. Harrison
Lt. Hanford Hayes
Hubbell's in the 17th
Pvt. Timothy Donovan
Musician Henry Huss
Sgt. Isaac Crissy
Pvt. Francis H. Ferry
Pvt. George S. Ferry
Surgeon Robert Hubbard
Chaplain William K. Hall
 
 
 
 
 

Biographical Sketches of the Seventeenth

 

Chaplain William K. Hall

from "The Standard's History of Bridgeport"

 

Rev. William K. Hall was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 4, 1836, was graduated at Yale College in 1859; pursued his theological studies in New Haven and Berlin, Germany, and was ordained October 17, 1862, chaplain of the Connecticut Volunteers. He was installed pastor of this church, October 24, 1866, and the relation was dissolved at his request in May, 1872. In January, 1873, he accepted a call from the First Presbyterian Church in Newburgh, N.Y. He was chosen moderator of the New York Synod in 1878, and in the following year was appointed by the Secretary of War as one of the Board of Visitors at West Point.