History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers

A former junior officer compiles an outline history of his regiment from personal diaries and recollections, tracing recruitment and organization in Connecticut, early camp life and drilling, movements between camps and theaters, and engagement in marches and battles. Chapters mix campaign narrative with descriptions of hardships, logistics, and concise anecdotes that memorialize comrades who died or were captured. The account emphasizes daily soldiering, officers' duties, the regiment's recovery after losses, and provides a compact reference and memorial for surviving members and descendants.