The 8th Connecticut Infantry Regiment lost 8 officers and 112 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 officers and 141 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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September 21 |
Organized at Hartford |
October 17 |
Left State for Annapolis, Md. |
November |
Duty at Annapolis, Md. attached to Parke's Third Brigade, Burnside's Expeditionary Corps |
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January 7-
February 8 |
Burnside's expedition to Hatteras Inlet and Roanoke Island, N. C. |
February 8 |
Battle of Roanoke Island |
February 9 - March 11 |
At Roanoke Island |
March 11-13 |
Moved to New Berne, N. C. |
March 14 |
Battle of New Berne |
March 23-April 26 |
Operations against Fort Macon. Assigned to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Dept. of North Carolina |
April 12 |
Skirmish at Fort Macon |
April 26 |
Capture of Fort Macon. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, Department of Virginia |
May - July |
Duty at New Berne |
July 2 |
Moved to Morehead City and assigned to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
July 3-5 |
To Newport News, Va. |
August 1-5 |
Moved to Fredericksburg, Va. |
August 31-
September 3 |
Moved to Brooks' Station, thence to Washington, D.C. |
September-October |
Maryland Campaign |
September 12 |
Frederick, Md. |
September 14 |
Turner's Gap, South Mountain |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam |
September 18 |
Duty in Pleasant Valley |
October 27-
November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
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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 |
April 19 |
Fort Huger |
April 24 |
Edenton Road |
May 3 |
Nansemond River |
May 4 |
Siege of Suffolk raised |
June 24-July 7 |
Dix's Peninsula Campaign. Assigned to 2nd Brigade, Getty's Division, United States forces, Portsmouth, Va., Dept. Virginia and North Carolina |
July 1-7 |
Expedition from White House to South Anna River |
July |
Moved to Portsmouth, Va., and duty there |
October 12-14 |
Expedition to South Mills |
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January |
Assigned to Sub-District Albemarle, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
March 13 to April 18 |
Outpost duty at Deep Creek |
April 18-21 |
Moved to Yorktown and assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
May 4-28 |
Butler's operations on south side of the James and against Petersburg and Richmond |
May 5 |
Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred |
May 7 |
Port Walthal Junction, Chester Station |
May 9-10 |
Swift Creek, or Arrow field Church |
May 12-16 |
Operations against Fort Darling |
May 14-16 |
Battle of Drewry's Bluff |
May 17-27 |
On Bermuda Hundred front |
May 27-June 1 |
Moved to White House Landing, thence to Cold Harbor |
June 1-12 |
Battles about Cold Harbor |
June 15-18 |
Assaults on Petersburg |
June 16, 1864 -
April 2, 1865 |
Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond |
July 30 |
Mine explosion Petersburg (Reserve) |
August 25-
September 27 |
On Bermuda Hundred front. Assigned to Provost Guard, 18th Army Corps |
September 28-29 |
Fort Harrison, New Market Heights |
September 29-30 |
Chaffin's Farm |
October |
Duty in trenches before Richmond |
October 27-28 |
Battle of Fair Oaks |
December |
Assigned to Provost Guard, 24th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
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February |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps |
April 3 |
Occupation of Richmond and duty there and at Lynchburg, Va. |
July |
Attached to 2nd Provisional Brigade, 24th Army Corps |
August |
Assigned to Dept. of Virginia |
December |
Mustered out |
