6th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment

United States Regiments & Batteries * Connecticut

The 6th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 8 officers and 99 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 124 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1861
September 12 The 6th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment was organized at New Haven under the command of Colonel John Lyman Chatfield. Chatfield had been Major of the 1st Connecticut Infantry.
September 17 Left State for Washington, D.C.
October 5 Moved to Annapolis, Md.
October 21-November 7 Sherman’s Expedition to Port Royal, S.C. Attached to Wright’s 3rd Brigade, Sherman’s Expeditionary Corps
November 7 Capture of Forts Walker and Beauregard, Port Royal Harbor
November 8 Reconnaissance on Hilton Head Island
November 10-11 Expedition to Braddock’s Point
November-January Duty at Hilton Head, S.C.
1862
January 20 Expedition to Warsaw Sound
February 27 Duty at Hilton Head
March 20-April 11 Moved to Dafuskie Island and siege operations against Fort Pulaski, Ga. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of the South
April 10-11 Bombardment and capture of Fort Pulaski
June 1-28 Operations on James Island
June 10 Grimball’s Plantation
June 16 Battle of Secessionville
June 28-July 7 Evacuation of James Island and movement to Hilton Head. Attached to District of Beaufort, S.C., Dept. of the South
September Attached to District of Beaufort, S. C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South
October 21-23 Expedition to Pocotaligo, S.C. Colonel Chatfield was wounded by an artillery shell.
October 22 Action at Frampton’s Plantation, Pocotaligo
November-March Duty at Beaufort, S.C.
1863
March At Jacksonville, Fla.
April Moved to Hilton Head, S.C. attached to District Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Corps, then to Folly Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps
June 3-July 10 Occupation of Folly Island, S.C. attached to 2nd Brigade, United States forces, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps
July 10 Attack on Morris Island, S.C. attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps, then to 1st Brigade, Morris Island, S. C., 10th Army Corps
July 18

Assault on Fort Wagner, Morris Island

Colonel Chatfield was mortally wounded. He was returned to Connecticut where he would die of gangrene from his wounds on August 9.
July 25 Moved to Hilton Head, S.C. Attached to District of Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Corps
1864
April 2 Moved to Gloucester Point and attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Va. and N. C.
May 4-28 Butler’s operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond
May 9-10 Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church
May 10 Chester Station
May 12-16 Operations against Fort Darling
May 13 Proctor’s Creek
May 14-16 Battle of Drewry’s Bluff
May-August At Bermuda Hundred. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina
May 20 Ware Bottom Church
June 9 Assault on Petersburg
June 16-17 Port Walthal
June 16 Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond begin
June 20 Ware Bottom Church
August 13-20 Demonstration on north side of the James
August 14-18 Battle of Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom
August 16 Deep Run
August 25-
September 27		 In trenches before Petersburg
September 27-28 Moved to north side of the James
September 28-30
Battle of Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights
October 7 Darbytown and New Market Roads
October 13 Darbytown Road
October 27-28
Battle of Fair Oaks
October 31-November 2 In front of Richmond
November 2-17 Detached for duty at New York City during Presidential election
November 18 Duty in trenches before Richmond
December Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps

1865
January 3 Second expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Terry’s Provisional Corps, Dept. of North Carolina
January 3-15
Assault and capture of Fort Fisher
January 19 Half Moon Battery
February 11 Sugar Loaf Battery
February 18 Fort Anderson
February 22 Capture of Wilmington
February 22 North East Ferry
March Duty at Wilmington, N. C. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. North Carolina
June At Goldsboro attached to Abbott’s Detached Brigade, Dept. North Carolina
August 21 The 6th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment Mustered out