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 (JONNKCTKT T Ri:<;lMK.NTS. LIST OF REGIMENTS IN THE UNION ARMIES, ETC.— CONTINUED. *Three-montlis'service. -(-Nine-months' service. iReonlisied. (Peninsular Cur]** (1»*>3). Connecticut. — The ist Heavy Artillery is noteworthy as having served in the field through the war, and in the arm of service to which it belonged. Very few of the other heavy artillery regiments in the army saw any service aside from garrison-duty, except while acting as infantry. The ist Connecticut Heavy Artillery was or ganized as the 4th Infantry, but was changed in January, 1862, to heavy artillery. It served as heavy artillery at the Siege of Yorktown, in 1862, and was prominently engaged during the Siege of Petersburg, the most of its losses in action occurring at the latter place. The ist, 2(1, and 3d Infantry were three-months' regiments which went out in April, 1861, in response to the first call for troops, and were in action at First Bull Run. The 4th and igth In fantry became, respectively, the island 2d Heavy Artillery, thereby leaving those regimental numbers vacant. In the 8th Infantry, five men were executed for desertion, an unusually large number for one regiment. The deaths in the 16th Regiment include 154 deaths in Confederate prisons, over 400 of this regiment having been captured at Plymouth, N. C. The great mortality in the gth was largely due to its sen'ice in the district of the Lower Missis sippi, 153 of the deaths — or half of the number present for duty — occurring in the summer and fall of 1862 while stationed in the vicinity of Baton Rouge, Vicksburg, and New Orleans. _14783
