20th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

United States Regiments & Batteries * Connecticut

The 20th Connecticut Infantry Regiment lost 4 officers and 76 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 85 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

1862
September 8 The 20th Connecticut Infantry Regiment was organized at New Haven, Connecticut
September 11 Left State for Washington, D.C. and Duty in the Defenses of Washington; Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
September 29 Moved to Frederick, Md
October 2 To Sandy Hook
December 10 March to Fredericksburg, Va.
December 14 Duty at Fairfax Station, Va.
1863
January 19-23 Moved to Stafford C. H.
April 27
Chancellorsville Campaign
May Transferred to 1st Brigade, 1st Division
May 1-5
Battle of Chancellorsville
June 11

Gettysburg Campaign
July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel William B. Wooster. It brought 434 men to the field and lost 5 killed, 22 wounded and 1 missing.

From the regiment’s monument at Gettysburg

The Brig. formed on this line on the morning of July 2nd. At eve it moved to the support left of army. Returning, it found the position and woods on rear occupied by Johnson’s Division, Ewell’s Corps. During the night it lay in line of battle. At dawn, July 3rd, the 20th Conn. advanced under cover of artillery and fought 5 hrs. driving the enemy and reoccupying the works. Was relieved by the 123rd N.Y. In the afternoon moved to support the 2nd Corps against Longstreet’s assault.

Monument to the 20th Connecticut Infantry at Gettysburg

Monument to the 20th Connecticut Infantry at Gettysburg
September 24 Near Raccoon Ford
September 24 Moved to Brandy Station, then to Bealeton and to Stevenson, Alabama as part of the Army of the Cumberland
October 3 Guard duty along Nashville & Chattanooga R. R.
1864
January 20 Action at Tracy City, Tenn. (Company “B”)
April Assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, then 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps
May

Atlanta Campaign

3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps
May 8-11 Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge
May 8-9 Buzzard’s Roost Gap
May 10 Boyd’s Trail
May 14-15

Battle of Resaca
May 19 Cassville
May 24-June 13 Guard Ordnance Trains
July 8 Provost duty at Ackworth, Ga.
July 16 At Marietta
July 19-20

Peach Tree Creek
July 22 –
August 25

Siege of Atlanta
August 26 – September 2

Operations at Chattahoochee River Bridge
September 2 – November 15 Occupation of Atlanta
November 15 – December 10

March to the sea
December 10 – 21

Siege of Savannah
1865
January 4-16 At Hardee’s Plantation
January

Campaign of the Carolinas
February 2 Lawtonville, S.C.
March 14 Reconnaissance to Silver Run Creek, N. C.
March 16

Averysboro or Taylor’s Hole Creek
March 19-21

Battle of Bentonville
March 24 Occupation of Goldsboro
April 14 Occupation of Raleigh
April 26

Bennett’s House

Surrender of Johnston and his army
April 29 –
May 20		 March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va.
May 24 Grand Review
June 13 Camp near Fort Lincoln
June 13 The 20th Connecticut Infantry Regiment mustered out