2nd Regiment, Connecticut Heavy Artillery

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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:

• Regimental History - The 2d Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, (accessed 9 Mar 2011).  Connecticut Military Department

• Vaill, Theodore F., The History of the Second Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Connecticut Volunteers, (Winsted, Conn. : Winsted Printing Co., 1868).  Online at Internet Library, (accessed 9 Mar 2011).  Also available at the Family History Library, FHL US/CAN Fiche 6082910.

• Vaill, Dudley Landon, The county regiment; a sketch of the Second regiment of Connecticut volunteer heavy artillery, originally the Nineteenth volunteer infantry, in the civil war, (Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1991).  Online at Internet Library, (accessed 9 Mar 2011).  Also available at the Family History Library, FHL US/CAN Fiche 6082909. or Computer US/CAN Desktop CD-ROM no. 2630 v. 2.

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

Company Rosters

• 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 283.  Available Online at Internet Archive, (accessed 8 Mar 2011).  Also available at the Family History Library, FHL US/CAN Book 974.6 M2a, or FHL US/CAN Film 1550802.

• 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 322. Includes index.  Online at Internet Archive, (accessed 8 Mar 2011).  Also available at the Family History Library, FHL US/CAN Fiche 6082887. or FHL US/CAN Film 1033670 Item 1.

Source Material

• The Civil War in the East, (accessed 9 Mar 2011).  Timeline of the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment

• Stamford Roster, (accessed 9 Mar 2011). 

• 2d Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment Descendants Association, (accessed 9 Mar 2011). 

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