16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment August 24, 1862 June 24, 1865 United States Union Infantry Maryland Campaign Battle of Antietam Battle of Fredericksburg Siege of Suffolk Battle of Plymouth Capture of Fort Branch Connecticut U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865 15th Connecticut Infantry Regiment 17th Connecticut Infantry Regiment 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, IX Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, VII Corps, Department of Virginia, to July 1863. 2nd Brigade, Getty's Division, Portsmouth, Virginia, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, to January 1864. District of Albemarle, North Carolina, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, to April 1864. Defenses of New Bern, North Carolina, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, to January 1865. Roanoke Island, North Carolina, Department of North Carolina, to June 1865. 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.Fox 1898 473 Commanders Colonel Francis Beach Captain Charles L. Upham - commanded at the Battle of Fredericksburg See also American Civil War Connecticut Connecticut in the American Civil War List of Connecticut Civil War units References Citations 30em Sources 40em Dyer Frederick Henry Frederick H. Dyer A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Dyer Pub. Co. Des Moines, IA 1908 8697590 09005239 B01BUFJ76Q https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015026937642?urlappend=%3Bseq=1509%3Bownerid=13510798899657173-1078 en PDF 1048 2027/mdp.39015026937642?urlappend=%3Bseq=1508%3Bownerid=13510798899657173-1078 registration October 20, 2024 Federal Publishing Company Military Affairs and Regimental Histories of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, And Delaware https://archive.org/details/unionarmyhistory01madi/page/290/mode/2up Federal Publishing Company The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861–65 – Records of the Regiments in the Union army – Cyclopedia of battles – Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers I 1908 Madison, WI 6940181 0801753700 PDF 290-291 Fox William F. William F. Fox Regimental losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 A treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington https://archive.org/details/cu31924081185278 Albany Publishing Company Albany, NY 1898 259090723 1st en pdf 473 August 13, 2026 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. Gordon, Lesley J. "I never was a coward": Questions of Bravery in a Civil War Regiment (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press), 2005. 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. 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. 89195270, 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 External links 16th Connecticut Infantry monument at Antietam National Battlefield Category:Military units and formations established in 1862 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865 16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment Category:Military in Connecticut Category:1862 establishments in Connecticut