United States Regiments & Batteries * Connecticut
The 10th Connecticut Infantry Regiment lost 13 officers and 109 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 5 officers and 155 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1861
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| October 22 | The 10th Connecticut Infantry Regiment was organized at Hartford, Connecticut. |
| October 31 | Left Connecticut for Annapolis, Md. and duty there |
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1862
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| January 6 | Attached to Foster’s 1st Brigade, Burnside’s Expeditionary Corps |
| January 7- February 8 |
Burnside’s expedition to Hatteras Inlet and Roanoke Island, N. C. |
| February 8 |
Battle of Roanoke IslandColonel Charles L. Russell, 2 other officers and 16 enlisted men were killed, 6 officers and 31 enlisted men wounded |
| February | At Roanoke Island |
| March 11-13 | Moved to New Berne |
| March 14 |
Battle of New Berne |
| March-October | Duty at New Berne. Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of North Carolina |
| October 30-November 12 | Expedition from Newberne |
| November 2 | Action at Rawle’s Mills |
| December 11-20 |
Foster’s expedition to Goldsboro |
| December 14 |
Battle of KinstonThe regiment lost 11 killed and 39 wounded out of 366 engaged, including Captain H. A. Wells and Lieutenants W. W. Perkins, T. D. Hill, and J. C. Coting |
| December 16 | Whitehall |
| December 17 | Goldsboro |
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1863
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| January 26-29 | Moved from New Berne to Hilton Head, S.C. |
| January 30 | Camp at St. Helena Island, S.C. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of N.C. |
| February | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Corps, Dept. of the South |
| March 27 | At Seabrook Island, S. C, |
| April | Attached to Stevenson’s Brigade, Seabrook Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. South |
| June 18 | Skirmish Edisto Island |
| July 9-16 | Expedition to James Island. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. South |
| July 16 |
Battle of Secessionville |
| July 18 | Assault on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S.C. |
| July 18-September 7 | Siege operations against Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, and against Fort Sumter and Charlestown, S.C. attached to 3rd Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
| September 7 | Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg |
| September-October | Operations against Forts Sumter and Charlestown |
| October 26 | Moved to St. Augustine, Fla. and attached to Dept. Sout |
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1864
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| April 20 | Ordered to Gloucester Point, Va. and attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| May 5-28 |
Butler’s operations on south side of the James and against Petersburg and Richmond, Va. |
| May 5 | Occupation of Bermuda Hundred, Va. |
| May 7 | Port Walthal Junction, Chester Station |
| May 12-16 |
Operations against Fort DarlingAttached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps |
| May 14-16 |
Battle of Drewry’s Bluff |
| May 17-July 21 | On Bermuda Hundred front |
| June 2 | Action Bermuda Hundred |
| June 9 |
Petersburg |
| June 16-17 | Walthal Junction |
| June 16, 1864 – April 2, 1865 |
Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond |
| July 27-29 | Demonstration on north side of the James |
| July 27-28 and August 1 |
Deep BottomThe regiment lost 8 killed, 64 wounded, and 10 missing |
| August 14-18 | Strawberry Plains |
| August 25- September 27 |
Duty in the trenches before Petersburg |
| September 27-28 | Movement to north of the James River |
| September 28-30 | Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights |
| October 7 |
Darbytown and New Market RoadsMajor Henry W. Camp was killed |
| October 13 | Reconnaissance on Darbytown Road |
| October 27-28 |
Battle of Fair Oaks |
| October 29 | Johnston’s Plantation |
| November 2-17 | Detached for duty at New York City during Presidential election of 1864 |
| November 17 | Duty in trenches before Richmond |
| December | Assigned to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps, Army of the James |
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1865
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| March 27-28 | Movement to Hatcher’s Run |
| March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
| April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg, attack on Fort GreggThe regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel E. D. S. Goodyear. Major Dandy and 10 other men were killed and Lieutenant Colonel Goodyear and 78 other men wounded. The regiment’s colors were first on the parapet, and General Gibbon praised the regiment’s gallantry. |
| April 3-9 | Pursuit of Lee |
| April 6 | Rice’s Station |
| April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army. |
| April – August | Duty at Richmond, Va., and in the Dept. of Va. |
| July | Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps, Army of the James |
| August 15 | The 10th Connecticut Infantry Regiment mustered out |