16th Regiment, Connecticut Infantry

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16th Regiment, Connecticut Infantry

Brief History - "The Plymouth Pilgrims"

The 16th Regiment, Connecticut Infantry was organized at Hartford, Connecticut and mustered in on the 24th of August, 1862. This regiment was mustered out of service June 24, 1865.

For more information about the 16th Regiment Infantry and its history, see:

• 16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment at Wikipedia
• 16th Regiment Infantry at The Civil War Archive

Companies in this Regiment

Men often enlisted in a company recruited in the counties where they lived, though not always. After many battles, companies might be combined because so many men were killed or wounded. This regiment was composed of men from all parts of Connecticut, but the majority of men in each unit resided in the following counties:

Company A

Company B

Company C

Company D was largely formed by men from Hartford County.

Company E

Company F was largely formed by men from Hartford County.

Company G

Company H

Company I

Company K was largely formed by men from Hartford County.

Regimental History and Roster

• History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers, by B. F. Blakeslee. Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1991. FS Library US/CAN film 1685391, FS Library US/CAN film 6082941(*). Online at: Internet Archive.
• Connecticut. Adjutant General's Office, Catalogue of Connecticut volunteer organizations, with additional enlistments and casualties to July 1, 1864, (Hartford, Connecticut : Case, Lockwood, 1864), page 551. FS Library film 1550802. Online at: Internet Archive.
• Adjutant General's Office, Catalogue of Connecticut volunteer organizations : (infantry, cavalry, and artillery,) in the service of the United States, 1861-1865, with additional enlistments, casualties, &c., &c., and brief summaries, showing the operations and service of the several regiments and batteries. Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1991, page 641. Includes index. FS Library film 6082887(*), FS Library film 1033670, item 1. Online at: Internet Archive.
• The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors database lists 1,556 men on its roster for this unit.

Other Sources

• Beginning United States Civil War Research gives steps for finding information about a Civil War soldier. It covers the major records that should be used. Additional records are described in ‘Connecticut in the Civil War’ and ‘United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865’ (see below).
  

• National Park Service, The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, is searchable by soldier's name and state. It contains basic facts about soldiers on both sides of the Civil War, a list of regiments, descriptions of significant battles, sources of the information, and suggestions for where to find additional information.
  

• Connecticut in the Civil War describes many Confederate and Union sources, specifically for Connecticut, and how to find them.. These include compiled service records, pension records, rosters, cemetery records, Internet databases, published books, etc.
  

• United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865 describes and explains United States and Confederate States records, rather than state records, and how to find them. These include veterans’ censuses, compiled service records, pension records, rosters, cemetery records, Internet databases, published books, etc.

• Timeline of the 16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment at The Civil War in the East

• Graves of the 16th Connecticut Regiment. Roster by name and by company.

• Relyea, William H. and Priest, John M.,16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, (Shippensburg, Pa. : Bird Street Press, 2002). This book can be found at worldcat.org.

• United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 8th, 11th, 14th and 16th, (1861-1865), Souvenir of excursion to Antietam and dedication of monuments of the 8th, 11th, 14th and 16th regiments of Conn. volunteers, (Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1991). Pref. written by Walter J. Yates. Available at the FamilySearch Library, FS Library US/CAN Fiche 6082922.

• United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 16th (1862-1865), Sixteenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers excursion and reunion at Antietam Battlefield, September 17, 1889, (Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1991). includes a description of activities of the 16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment in the following battles or localities: Antietam, Md.; Fredericksburg, Va.; Suffolk, Va.; Plymouth, N.C.- Available at the FamilySearch Library, FS Library US/CAN Fiche 6082940.

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