United States Regiments & Batteries > Connecticut
The 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment lost 12 officers and 242 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 171 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument on the Cold Harbor battlefield.
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1863
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| November 23 | Organized at Washington, D.C. from the 19th Connecticut Infantry Regiment |
| December | Garrison duty at Forts Worth, Williams and Ellsworth, defenses of Washington, D.C. South of the Potomac, attached to 2nd Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington |
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1864
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| February | Attached to 4th Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Army Corps |
| May 17-19 | Ordered to join Army of the Potomac in the field. Moved to Spotsylvania C. H. and attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps |
| May 19-21 |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
| May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
| May 26-28 | On line of the Pamunkey |
| May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
| May 29 |
Hanover Court House |
| May 31-June 12 |
Battle of Cold HarborFrom the monument at Cold Harbor: Late on the afternoon of June 1, 1864, Col. Elisha Strong Kellogg and his 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery attacked Confederate entenchments to the west along with other Federal troops from the Sixth and Eighteenth Corps. Kellogg advanced his 1500 men across this ground in three battalions with weapons at port arms. The combined Union attacks resulted in the capture of approximately 300 prisoners. Maj. Gen. Robert F. Hoke’s Confederate division halted their further progress with a withering fire delivered from the left flank. Kellogg was killed at the head of the first battalion in front of the abatis and breastworks held by Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Clingman’s brigade. The remaining men of the 2nd Connecticut regrouped under Col. Emory Upton, and assisted in the capture of the Confederate line at sunset. However, more than 330 of its men fell killed and wounded in these attacks. May this unit that began the say raw and inexperienced nevermore be known as a “band box” regiment… The monument lists the names of the men kiled and wounded at Cold Harbor. |
| June 18-July 10 |
Siege of Petersburg |
| June 22-23 | Jerusalem Plank Road |
| July 10-12 | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
| July 12 |
Repulse of Early’s attack on Washington |
| August – December |
Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Assigned to Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
| September 19 |
Third Battle of Winchester (Opequan) |
| September 22 |
Fisher’s Hill |
| September 23-24 | New Market |
| September 25 | Woodstock |
| October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
| October-November | Duty at Winchester and in the valley |
| December 1-5 | Moved to Petersburg, Va. and Siege of Petersburg |
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1865
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| Feb. 5-7 |
Dabney’s Mills, Hatcher’s Run |
| March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
| April 2 | Fall of Petersburg |
| April 3-9 | Pursuit of Lee |
| April 6 |
Sailor’s Creek |
| April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army. |
| April 10-23 | At Farmville and Burkesville |
| April 23-27 | March to Danville |
| May 24-June 3 | March to Richmond, then to Washington, D.C. |
| June 8 | Corps review |
| June-August | Duty at Washington attached to 2nd Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington |
| August 18 | Mustered out |