Excerpts from the Book 'History Of The Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers':

... young men whom the commonwealth ever sent to uphold its honor in the field. It was organized during the month of August, 1862, under the command ...
... could plainly see the rebel gunners load and fire, some of the shells coming quite near us. At last we were in the great line of battle of the Army ...
... and cutting wood, cooking, feeding, and assisting in a thousand ways. (On the afternoon of the 18th, a heavy shower, lasting an hour, made it very uncomfortable ...
... 7th was a tedious and rough day. Snow fell most of the day, and at least one-third of the regiment were without shoes. We marched to a place called ...
... and the First Sergeants the companies. The regiment moved off by the flank to cut their way through the darkness and encamp somewhere, until ...
... day. The name of this place was Taylor's Ferry. The next day being July 4th, was a legal holiday in times of peace, but was not so for this division. ...
... members of the regiment went to work and built a chapel, which turned out to be a very fine edifice, and together with a temperance organization which ...
... lived in a small house half way between the camp of the 16th and the western or left end of the town, and was blessed (or cursed, I doubt if he knew which ...
... opened with artillery at an early hour, and the firing on the skirmish line was very lively until eleven o'clock. Captain Burke was wounded in the ...
... evidence of the desperate character of the struggle whilst it lasted. They are wounded in almost every imaginable way, and but few of their hurts can ...
... fully ascertained. It is safe, however, to pronounce it one of the most brilliant affairs of the war. Its immediate fruits are important. Those which ...
... guns and field pieces. Just at this time General Hoke opened, with his artillery under Majors Mosely and Reid, a very rapid and tremendous fire, and ...
... At this camp one day, Adjutant Clapp was having his haircut and accidently the barber nicked his ear a little. A lady who was at the time passing ...
... of war and confined at Wilmington. This was news that very much surprised us. It seems that after being exchanged at Charleston, he had been home ...
... allowed a certain number to be paroled each day. Their names were written on a piece of paper, handed to the officer of the day, who instructed the guard ...
... received while there. [4] The first six months of prison life one is called a fresh fish, the next four months a sucker, the next two a dry cod, ...
... their mules and carts. They were intending to take the corn to a mill near by to be ground. The regiment also made several unimportant raids to Columbia, ...
... of general history. There were only a few of the Sixteenth at New Berne at the time, and most of these had been detailed as clerks or nurses to the ...
... of war. No braver regiment ever went out from our city or State. Made up mostly of Hartford men, born and cradled under the very branches of the Charter ...
... and most of them rest in Southern graves, but though they fell thus, they died at their posts. History will keep fresh their memories, and write ...