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Read the full story of the formation of Company I, 10th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers from the journal of Daniel Merritt Mead.

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Torn paper with a drawing of a flag and canon, reading "The first man that attempts to haul down the American Flag, shoot him on the spot."

Envelope, Union stationery.
Mead Family papers.

In April 1861 Lincoln issued his first call for troops. In his journal Daniel Merritt Mead noted that "it was acknowledged on all hands that there was almost no military spirit" in Greenwich. Yet by September 26, 1861, he had organized 50 men into a Company that was to become Company I, 10th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. Those who chose to re-enlist in 1863 were referred to as "veterans."