2nd Regiment, Connecticut Heavy Artillery

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2nd Regiment, Connecticut Heavy Artillery

Brief History

The 2nd Regiment Heavy Artillery was originally recruited as the 19th Regiment Connecticut Infantry. On the 23rd of November 1863 the regiment was changed from an infantry to an artillery organization. The regiment was finally mustered out of service on August 18, 1865, at Washington, D.C.

For more information about the 2nd Regiment, Connecticut Heavy Artillery and its history, see:

• 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment at Wikipedia
• 2nd Regiment Heavy Artillery 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 Litchfield County, Connecticut, but the companies were credited to towns in Litchfield County as follows:

Company A - Litchfield

Company B - Salisbury

Company C - Goshen

Company D - Plymouth

Company E - Winsted

Company F - New Hartford

Company G - Cornwall

Company H - New Milford

Company I - Woodbury

Company K - Made up from recruits from 25 different towns

Regimental History and Roster

• The History of the Second Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Connecticut Volunteers, by Theodore F. Vaill. Winsted, Conn. : Winsted Printing Co., 1868. FS Catalog film 6082910(*); Online at: Internet Library.
• The county regiment; a sketch of the Second regiment of Connecticut volunteer heavy artillery, originally the Nineteenth volunteer infantry, in the civil war, by Dudley Landon Vaill. Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1991. FS Catalog 6082909(*), Computer US/CAN Desktop CD-ROM no. 2630 v. 2.; Online at: Internet Library.
• Catalogue of Connecticut volunteer organizations, with additional enlistments and casualties to July 1, 1864. Connecticut. Adjutant General's Office. Hartford, Connecticut : Case, Lockwood, 1864; page 175. FS Catalog film 1550802. Online at: Internet Archive.
• 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. Adjutant General's Office. Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1991; page 197. Includes index. FS Catalog film 6082887(*), FS Catalog film 1033670, item 1. Online at: Internet Archive.
• The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors database lists 4,174 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 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment at The Civil War in the East

• Connecticut Artillery 2nd Regiment, Stamford Roster at the Stamford Historical Society

• United States. War Department. Record and Pension Office. Connecticut 1st Cavalry 1st Heavy Artillery 2nd Heavy Artillery 1st-3rd Independent Battery, Light Artillery 1st Infantry, 3 months, 1861-3rd Infantry 5th Infantry 6th Infantry. (Washington, District of Columbia : The National Archives, 1964), FS Catalog film 1488457.

• Vaill, Theodore Frelinghuysen. History of the Second Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, originally the nineteenth Connecticut vols. (Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1991), FS Catalog film 6082910(*).