United States Regiments & Batteries > Connecticut
The regiment lost 1 officer and 44 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 152 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Fair Haven, Connecticut.
1864
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Organized at Fair Haven | |
March 8 | Mustered in under Colonel William B. Wooster |
March 19 | Left State for Annapolis, Md. on the transport Warrior after being addressed by Governor Buckingham and Frederick Douglass. |
April 8-13 | Moved to Beaufort, S.C. |
April-August | Duty at Beaufort, S.C. Attached to District of Beaufort, Dept. of the South |
August 8-13 | Moved from Beaufort, S.C., to Bermuda Hundred, Va. for siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond assigned to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina |
August 13-20 | Demonstration on North Side of the James |
August 14-18 | Deep Bottom, Strawberry Plains |
August 25- September 24 |
Duty in the trenches before Petersburg |
September 28-29 | New Market Heights and Fort Harrison |
September 29-30 | Chaffin’s Farm |
October 13 | Darbytown Road |
October 27-28 | Battle of Fair Oaks
The regiment suffered 80 casualties acting as the skirmish line for the division. |
November-April | Duty in trenches before Richmond garrisoning the line of forts along Newmarket Road |
December | Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 25th Army Corps |
1865
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January | Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 25th Army Corps |
March | Moved to Fort Harrison |
April 3 | Occupation of Richmond. The first infantry regiment to enter the city, with Companies C and G leading the way as skirmishers. Assigned to District of St. Marys, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington |
April 18 | Moved to City Point then to Point Lookout, Md., and duty there guarding prisoners |
May 28-30 | Moved to City Point |
June 10 | Sailed for Texas |
July 3 | Arrived at Brazos de Santiago and assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 25th Army Corps, Dept. of Texas |
July | March to Brownsville and duty there |
October 24 | Mustered out |
October 27-November 11 | At New Orleans |
November 25 | Honorably discharged at New Haven, Conn.. |