16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The regiment lost 6 officers and 76 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 240 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

It is honored by a monument at Antietam.

monument to the 16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment at Antietam

1862
August 24	Organized at Hartford
August 29-31	Moved to Washington, D.C. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
September-October	Maryland Campaign
September 16-17	Battle of Antietam The regiment was commanded by Colonel Francis Beach. With little training and no experience, they were placed on the flank of Burnside's advance on Sharpsburg in the afternoon and were struck and crushed by A. P. Hill's attack. Out of 779 engaged the regiment lost 43 killed, 161 wounded and 204 captured or missing.
October 27	Duty in Pleasant Valley, Md.
October 27- November 17	Movement to Falmouth, Va.
December 12-15	Battle of Fredericksburg
1863
January 20-24	Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March"
February 6-9	Moved to Newport News
March 13	To Suffolk
April 12-May 4	Siege of Suffolk. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia
April 24	Edenton Road
May 3	Providence Church Road and Nansemond River
May 4	Siege of Suffolk raised
June 9-17	Reconnaissance to the Chickahominy
June 24-July 7	Dix's Peninsula Campaign
July 1-7	Expedition from White House to South Anna River
July	Moved to Portsmouth, Va. Duty there and at Norfolk assigned to 2nd Brigade, Getty's Division, Portsmouth, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina.
1864
January	Assigned to District of Albemarle, N. C., Dept. Virginia and North Carolina
January 20	Skirmish at Harrellsville (Detachment)
January 24-28	Moved to Morehead City, then to New Berne and Plymouth
January 30	Skirmish at Windsor
February 2 - March 20	Duty at Newberne
April	At Plymouth, N. C.
April 17-20	Siege of Plymouth, assigned to Defenses of Newberne, N. C, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina
April 20	Outnumbered 5 to 1 and with no hope of escape or reinforcement, the garrison was surrendered and the regiment captured.
April 1864- June 1865	Those not captured on duty at New Berne and Roanoke Island, N. C. asigned to Dept. North Carolina.
1865
June 24	Mustered out