26th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

26th Connecticut Infantry Regiment
26th Connecticut Infantry Regiment
Active	November 10, 1862 - August 17, 1863
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	Siege of Port Hudson

Last updated November 01, 2024

The 26th Connecticut Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War for nine months service.

Service

The 26th Connecticut Infantry Regiment was organized at Norwich, Connecticut, on November 10, 1862. The regiment was attached to Sherman's Division, Department of the Gulf, to January 1863. And then to the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XIX Corps, Department of the Gulf, to August 1863. The 26th Connecticut Infantry mustered out of service August 17, 1863.

Located in Norwich's Little Plain Park (between Broadway and Union Street), sits the 26th Regiment Volunteer Infantry Monument, dedicated in 1902 to honor those who served in the Civil War in late 1862 and mid-1863.^[1]

Detailed service

The regiment left Connecticut for eastern New York November 12, then sailed for Ship Island and New Orleans, Louisiana, November 29, arriving there December 16. Subsequently: duty at Camp Parapet until May 1863, moved to Springfield Landing May 20, siege of Port Hudson May 24-July 9, and assaults on Port Hudson May 27 and June 14. Finally, the surrender of Port Hudson on July 9.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 145 men during service; 4 officers and 51 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 89 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

Colonel Thomas G. Kingsley - Wounded May 27, 1863 during the first assault at Port Hudson.^[2]
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Selden - commanded during the siege of Port Hudson

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References

↑ "26th Regiment Volunteer Infantry Monument, Norwich". CTmonuments.net. Retrieved March 25, 2023.
↑ Smith, Stephen (1889). Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion. Hartford: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company. p. 809. Retrieved 20 November 2022.

Alexander, Walter S. Sermon Occasioned by the Death of Edwin Ruthven Keyes, Sergeant in the 26th Conn. Regiment, Who Was Wounded at Port Hudson, May 27th, 1863, and Who Died at Baton Rouge, La., June 12th, 1863 (Danielsonville, CT: Transcript Print.), 1863.
Association of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers. Roster, Muster Roll and Chronological Record of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers and Memoranda of the Association of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers (Norwich, CT: F. Utley), 1888.
Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
Fellows, William C. Dear Mother and Sister: The Civil War Letters of Pvt. William C. Fellows, 26th Regt., Conn. Volunteers, Company K (Old Mystic, CT: The Indian and Colonial Research Center), 2009. ISBN 1-8830-0901-4
Memoranda Twenty-Sixth Regiment, Conn. Vols. (S.l.: s.n.), 1887.
Smith, Stephen. Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion (Hartford, CT: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company), 1889.

Attribution

This article contains text from a text now in the public domain : Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.

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[1] "26th Regiment Volunteer Infantry Monument, Norwich". CTmonuments.net. Retrieved March 25, 2023.

[2] Smith, Stephen (1889). Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion. Hartford: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company. p. 809. Retrieved 20 November 2022.

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