Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR. TENTH CONNECTICUT INFANTRY. PLAISTED'S BRIGADE — TERRY'S DIVISION — TENTH CORPS. (1) COL. CHARLES L. RUSSELL (Killed). (2) COL. ALBERT W. DRAKE (Died). (3) COL. IRA W. PETTIBONE. (4) COL. JOHN L. OTIS; BVT. BRIO. GEN. (5) COL. EDWIN S. GREELEY; BVT. BRIG. GEN. Total of killed and wounded, 433 ; died in Confederate prisons, n. BATTLES. K. &M.W. Roanoke Island, N. C 12 New Berne, N. C 9 Kinston, N. C 34 St. Augustine, Fla i Drewry's Bluff, Va 10 Deep Bottom, Va 17 BATTLES. K.&M.W. Petersburg, Va 3 New Market Road, Va., Oct. 7, 1864 4 Darbytown Road, Va., Oct. 13, 1864 9 Hatcher's Run, Va 2 Fort Gregg, Va >. 21 Present, also, at Whitehall; Seabrook Island ; Siege of Charleston; Walthall Junction ; Bermuda Hundred ; Strawberry Plains • Laurel Hill Church ; Johnson's Plantation ; Appomattox. NOTES. — Recruited in various counties. It left the State November i, 1861, and proceeded to Annapolis, where it embarked with the Burnside expedition to North Carolina. It was placed in Foster's (ist) Brigade, and was engaged at Roanoke Island, its casualties in that action amounting to 6 killed and 49 wounded. Colonel Russell fell there, the first one of the Connecticut colonels killed in the war. At the battle of Kinston, N. C.,— December 14, 1862—the heaviest loss fell on the Tenth Connecticut, it having been entrusted with the most prominent part. It lost there 11 killed, and 39 wounded, out of 366 engaged ; five line officers were killed or mortally wounded. The remarkable gallantry of the regiment in this action was publicly acknowledged at its close by General Foster, in words of extreme praise. At that battle it was in Stevenson's (2d) Brigade, Foster's (ist) Division. In April, 1864, the Tenth joined the Army of the James, and participated in all its battles. It was engaged at Deep Bottom with a loss of 8 killed, 64 wounded, and 10 missing. Major Henry W. Camp, the " Knightly Soldier," was killed at Darbytown Road. The regiment was transferred in December, to Foster's (ist) Division, Twenty-fourth Corps, in which command it took the lead in the victorious but desperate assault on Fort Gregg, its losses there amounting to 11 killed and 79 wounded. Its flag was the first on the parapet, and the gallantry displayed there by the regiment was signally acknowledged by General Gibbon, the corps commander. _05172
