16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment
| 16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment | |
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| Founded | August 24, 1862 |
| Disbanded | June 24, 1865 |
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| Connecticut U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865 | ||||
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The 16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment was organized at Hartford, Connecticut, on August 24, 1862.
The regiment was attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division,
The 16th Connecticut Infantry mustered out of service June 24, 1865.
Detailed service
Left Connecticut for Washington, D.C., August 29–31. Maryland Campaign September–October 1862. Battle of Antietam, September 16–17. Duty in Pleasant Valley, Maryland, October 27. Movement to Falmouth, Virginia, October 27 – November 17. Battle of Fredericksburg December 12–15. Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March," January 20–24, 1863. Moved to Newport News February 6–9, then to Suffolk March 13. Siege of Suffolk April 12 – May 4. Edenton Road April 24. Providence Church Road and Nansemond River May 3. Siege of Suffolk raised May 4. Reconnaissance to the Chickahominy June 9–17. Dix's Peninsula Campaign June 24 – July 7. Expedition from White House to South Anna River July 1–7. Moved to Portsmouth, Virginia. Duty there and at Norfolk, January 1864. Skirmish at Harrellsville, January 20 (detachment). Moved to Morehead City, then to New Bern and Plymouth January 24–28. Skirmish at Windsor January 30. Duty at New Bern February 2 to March 20, and at Plymouth, North Carolina, April. Siege of Plymouth April 17–20. Captured April 20, and prisoners of war March 1865. Those not captured on duty at New Bern and Roanoke Island, North Carolina, June 1865.
Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 325 men during service; 6 officers and 76 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 240 enlisted men died of disease, including 154 who died as prisoners of war in Confederate hands.[1]
Commanders
See also
References
- ^ Fox, William F., Lt.-Col., 'Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865', Albany, N.Y., 1889, p. 473.
Further reading
- Blakeslee, B. F. History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers (Hartford, CT: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Printers), 1875.
- Burkhardt, A. W. Forty Hours on the Battlefield of Antietam; or, The Foeman Friend (S.l.: s.n.), n.d.
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
- ISBN 0-8746-2338-3
- Kellogg, Robert H. Life and Death in Rebel Prisons (Hartford, CT: L. Stebbins), 1865.
- Relyea, William H. 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry (Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press), 2002. ISBN 1-5724-9290-2
- Report of the Twenty-Third Annual Reunion at Antietam Battlefield Sept. 17, 1889 (Hartford, CT: Case), 1890.
- Schildt, John W. Connecticut at Antietam (Hagerstown, MD: Tri-State Printing), 1988. OCLC 17778439
- Sixteenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers Excursion and Reunion at Antietam Battlefield, September 17, 1889 (Hartford, CT: Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co.), 1889.
- Yates, Walter J. Souvenir of Excursion to Antietam and Dedication of Monuments of the 8th, 11th, 14th and 16th Regiments of Connecticut Volunteers (S.l.: s.n.), 1894.
- Attribution
This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.
