United States Regiments & Batteries > Connecticut
The 13th Connecticut lost 2 officers and 42 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 157 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. The regiment is honored by a monument in the National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia.
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1861
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| November 25 – January 7 | Organized at New Haven |
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1862
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| March 17 | Left State for Ship Island, Miss. |
| April 13 | Arrived Ship Island, Miss. Attached to 1st Brigade, Department of the Gulf |
| April 15-28 | Operations against Forts St. Phillip and Jackson, Mississippi River, |
| May 1 | Occupation of New Orleans, La. |
| May | Duty at Camp Parapet and Carrollton |
| September 13-15 | Expedition to Pass Manchac and Ponchatoula (Detachment) |
| September | Assigned to Weitzel’s Reserve Brigade, Dept. Gulf |
| September 14-15 | Ponchatoula |
| October 24-November 6 | Operations in District of La Fourche |
| October 25 | Occupation of Donaldsonville |
| October 27 | Action at Georgia Landing, near Labadieville |
| October 28 | Thibodeauxville |
| November-December | Duty at Thibodeauxville |
| December 27 | Moved to Baton Rouge. Attached to Grover’s Division, Dept. of the Gulf |
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1863
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| January | Assigned to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, then 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 19th Corps |
| March 7-27 | Operations against Port Hudson. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 19th Corps |
| March 28 | Moved to Donaldsonville |
| April 9-May 14 | Operations in Western Louisiana |
| April 11-20 | Teche Campaign |
| April 13 | Porter’s and McWilliams’ Plantations at Indian Bend |
| April 14 | Irish Bend |
| April 17 | Bayou Vermillion |
| May 5-18 | Expedition to Alexandria and Simsport |
| May 21-26 | Expedition from Barre’s Landing toward Brashear City |
| May 26-July 9 | Siege of Port Hudson |
| May 27 | Assault on Port Hudson |
| June 14 | Second Assault on Port Hudson |
| June 21 | Brashear City (Detachment) |
| July 9 | Surrender of Port Hudson |
| July 11 | Moved to Donaldsonville, then to Thibodeauxville |
| August | Attached to 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 19th Corps |
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1864
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| February | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Corps, Dept. Gulf |
| March 25-May 22 | Red River Campaign |
| April 28 | Monett’s Bluff, Cane River Crossing |
| April 30-May 10 | Construction of dam at Alexandria |
| May 13-20 | Retreat to Morganza |
| May 16 | Mansura |
| May-June | Duty at Morganza |
| July and August | Veterans on furlough |
| August to December | Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Attached to Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
| September 19 |
Third Battle of Winchester (Opequon)Commanded by Colonel Charles D. Blinn |
| September 22 |
Battle of Fisher’s Hill |
| October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
| October-December | Duty at Kernstown and Winchester |
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1865
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| January 5-22 | Moved to Savannah, Ga. Attached to District of Savannah, Ga., Dept. of the South |
| March 8 | At Morehead City and New Berne, N. C. |
| March-May | Duty at Savannah, Augusta, Athens, Gainesville and District of Allatoona, Ga. attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
| April | Attached to District of Georgia, Dept. of the South |
| April 25 | Mustered out at Fort Pulaski, Ga. |