CONNECTICUT. 





through the large manufacturing towns of the 

 connty: Hartford county had increased 19,995, 

 of which 15.599 was in the city of Hartford, 

 and most of the remainder in the towns of New 

 Britain and Windsor Locks ; Fairfield connty 

 had increased 17,701, almost entirely in the 

 large towns along the Sound shore ; New Lon- 

 don connty had gained 9,910, of which 

 was in her two cities, New London and Nor- 

 wich ; while the other four counties, which 

 were mainly agricultural, and contained among 

 them but one city, and few considerable towns, 

 had gained but 9.992 in the aggregate, though 

 embracing about 4 of the population of the 



. The State is largely engaged in manu- 

 facturing, its aggregate industrial products 

 being stated in round numbers at $83,000,000. 

 The cash yalue of its farms and farming im- 

 plements was $93.169,486. Connecticut had 

 furnished to November 10, l v I men 



for the volunteer army. They constitute 

 twenty-seven regiments of infantry, one regi- 

 ment of heavy artillery, two batteries of 

 light artillery, and one battalion of cavalry. 



e close of the year, six regiments, one 



battery, and the battalion of cavalry were at 



different points in Virginia, one regiment in 



Maryland, six in North Carolina, two and a 



Hilton Head or its vicinity, three in 



Orleans, and the remainder in camp await- 

 ing orders, or recruiting. The quota required 

 to fill the two calls of July and August, 1862, 

 being short about 2,000 on'the 10th of Septem- 

 ber, Governor Buckingham directed a draft to 

 be made in the towns where there was a de- 

 ficiency on that day. In New Haven. Hart- 

 ford, and some other towns, the deficiency was 

 made up by volunteering before the day closed, 

 bounties of large amounts being offered by pa- 

 triotic citizens to volunteers. In other places 

 the draft was made. Slight opposition was 

 offered in Fairfield and Newtown. but it was 

 soon quelled, without any injury. In all, 1.212 

 persons were drafted, but of these only 

 of whom 143 were substitutes, were mustered 

 into the service of theUni" 81 having 



ed after reporting at camp: 623 were 

 exempted by surgeons and selectmen, 10 had 

 previously volunteered. 34 were not subjects 

 of military duty, and 166 were unaccounted 

 for on the 12th of December, 1862. The 

 number needed was, however, made up by 

 volmr 



At its regular session, in May, 180:2 

 islature passed a militia law, or rather revi-ed 

 and modified that of the previous year, which 

 had proved objectionable in many particulars. 

 This law divided the able-bodied males of the 



between the ages of eighteen and forty- 



usiial State and United > 

 exempts, into two classes, the active and inac- 

 tive militia : the first to consist of all the vol- 



unteer companies then in existence, or who 

 might be organized under the act, and to con- 

 stitute one division of such number of brigades 

 and regiments as the command er-in-ohief (the 

 governor of the State) should direct ; the sec- 

 ond class (inactive militia) to be composed of 

 all other able-bodied persons not exempt, to be 

 enrolled, and (except minors) to pay a commuta- 

 tion tax of one dollar per annum, and not to be 

 liable to serve except in case of rebellion or in- 

 vasion of the State, when they might be draft- 

 ed by the commander-in-chief to fill up the 

 ranks of the active militia. The organized, or 

 active militia, were required to be properly 

 armed and equipped, arms being furnished by 

 the State, and a sum allowed for the rent of an 

 arsenal. They were to be paid two dollars a 

 day and mileage when mustered for drill and 

 camp duty, and if belonging to a cavalry corps 

 were allowed two dollars more for horse hire 

 per day. They were also exempted from the com- 

 mutation tax and jury duty. The officers were 

 obliged to assemble once a year for officers' drill, 

 under a competent drill master, and were com- 

 pensated for the tune thus spent. The law does 

 not seem to have been perfect in its operations, 

 much complaint being made in regard to it. 



The expense of fitting out and providing for 

 so large a number of troops as was called for 

 by the President's proclamations in July and 

 August, 1862, having drained the treasury, and 

 causing a large prospective deficit, Governor 

 Buckingham deemed it necessary to call a spe- 

 cial session of the Legislature, which met in 

 Hartford on the 9th of December, 1862. In 

 his message, addressed to them, the governor 

 stated the inefficiency of the draft, showed the 

 defects of the militia law, and advocated the 

 extension of suffrage to the soldiers in the 

 field. He also recommended that the State 

 bonds be issued for a definite number of years, 

 and that the towns be allowed to issue bonds. 

 The funded debt of the State - \000, 



and the unfunded debt amounted on the ". 

 December, to $1.212,800. Exclusive of this 

 unfunded debt, and of new appropriations, the 

 estimated : of the treasury to tl . 



of March, the close of the financial year, were 

 13. and the estimated receipts only 

 580, leaving a deficiency of $125.753, 

 which, added to the unfunded debt, made the 

 entire indebtedness to be provided for $1.338,- 

 553. Nearly one half of this was for bounties 

 to volunteers. The Legislature passed an act 

 authorizing a loan of $2.000,000, which was 

 taken in February. 1S<?3. at about twelve per 

 cent premium. They also passed a law permit- 

 ting the soldiers in the field to vote for State 

 officers, but this was subsequently pronounced 

 by the judges of the supreme court of the State 

 unconstitutional. They also made some modi- 

 fications in the State militia law. 



