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The Thirty-Ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865

Chapter 56: SERGT. MAJOR C. K. CONN
By Alfred S. Roe
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The narrative follows a volunteer regiment from its organization through training, marches, combat, and duty, documenting engagements in the eastern theater and episodes of capture and imprisonment. Company-level sketches, officers' reports, and veterans' recollections reconstruct daily camp life, battle actions, maneuvers, and periods of garrison and picket duty. The volume intersperses firsthand diaries and letters with a campaign chronology and includes appendices containing rosters, officers' lists, casualty returns, and veterans' association records, offering both readable accounts of soldiering and a reference resource for descendants and historians.

SERGT. MAJOR C. K. CONN

Sergt. Major Chas. K. Conn, originally of Company K, was wounded May 8, '64, captured and carried to Richmond. After recovering from his wounds he was retained as a clerk, one of his duties being to make out the lists of those who were to be paroled. Having a happy thought one day while preparing a roll of names, he wrote his own among those of men about to start for God's country, and when the party in charge called for those thus enumerated, Conn stepped forth with the invalids to whom parole privileges were confined in 1864. One of the Confederate officers, noticing him among the sick men, asked him what he was doing there. To the query the quick witted Yankee replied, "I heard my name called and so responded." The facts in the case were not discovered till after Conn had gone too far to be called back, though he felt extremely shaky until he was safely aboard the Union vessel.