1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment
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| 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment | |
|---|---|
| Active | January 2, 1862 – September 25, 1865 |
| Country | United States |
| Allegiance | Appomattox Campaign |
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1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment was an artillery regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment was organized in Washington, D.C., from the 4th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry and mustered on January 2, 1862, under the command of Colonel Robert O. Tyler.
The regiment was attached to the Military District of Washington to April 1862. Siege artillery,
Department of Virginia, to July 1865. 4th Brigade, DeRussy's Division, XXII Corps, Department of Washington
, to August 1865. 3rd Brigade, Department of Washington, to September 1865.
The 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery mustered out of the service September 25, 1865.
Detailed service
Duty at
Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, May 13, 1864. Engaged in fatigue duty and as garrison for batteries and forts on the Bermuda front and lines before Petersburg during siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond, May 1864 to April 1865. Occupy Fort Converse, Redoubt Dutton, Batteries Spofford, Anderson, Pruyn, and Perry on the Bermuda front, and Forts Rice, Morton, Sedgwick, and McGilvrey, and Batteries 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, Burpee, Drake, and Sawyer, on the Petersburg front, and at Dutch Gap, north of the James River. Assaults on Fort Dutton June 2 and 21, 1864 (Battery L). Attacks on the lines May 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 30, 31, June 1, 2, 5, 9, 18, 20 and 23. Battle of the Crater July 30, August 25, November 17, 18 and 28, 1864. Repulse of rebel fleet at Fort Brady on James River January 23–24, 1865. Expedition to Fort Fisher, North Carolina, January 3–15, 1865 (Batteries B, G, and L). Capture of Fort Fisher
January 15 (Batteries B, G, and L). Assaults on and fall of Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865. Duty in the Department of Virginia until July 11. Moved to Washington, D.C., and duty in the defenses of that city until September.
Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 227 men during service; 2 officers and 49 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 4 officers and 172 enlisted men died of disease.
Commanders
- Colonel Robert O. Tyler
- Colonel Henry Larcom Abbot
- Major George Ager – commanded during the Appomattox Campaign
- Major George B. Cook – commanded during the Appomattox Campaign, after April 6
See also
References
- Bennett, E. B. First Connecticut Heavy Artillery: Historical Sketch and Present Addresses of Members (Hartford, CT: Star Printing Co.), 1889.
- Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
- The First Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865 (Hartford, CT: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co.), 1889.
- McNamar, J. B. Official Souvenir and Program of Monument First Connecticut Heavy Artillery and Dedicatory Exercises, Held on State Capitol Grounds, Hartford, Conn., September 25, 1902 (Hartford, CT: R. S. Peck), 1903.
- Report of the Movements and Operations of the 1st Conn. Heavy Artillery for the Year Ending March 31, 1865, as Given in the Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Connecticut, April 1, 1865 (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood and Co.), 1865.
- Taylor, John C. History of the First Connecticut Artillery and of the Siege Trains of the Armies Operating Against Richmond 1862–1865 (Hartford, CT: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co.), 1892.
- Walker, Edward Ashley. Our First Year of Army Life: An Anniversary Address, Delivered to the First Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, at Their Camp Near Gaines' Mills, Va., June, 1862 (New Haven, CT: T. H. Pease), 1862.
- 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.
