Connecticut 1st Battery Light Artillery
HISTORICAL NOTES:
The First Connecticut Light Artillery lost 1 officer and 3 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 11 men wounded, 21 enlisted men died of disease, and 4 men discharged disabled during the War.
A history of this Battery is on line.
ASSIGNMENTS:
Attached to Sherman's expeditionary corps to April, 1862.
3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Dept. of the South, to July, 1862.
District of Beaufort, S. C., Dept. of the South, to September, 1862.
District of Beaufort, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South to June, 1863.
United States forces Folly Island, S.C., 10th Corps, Dept. of the South, to April, 1864.
Artillery, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina to August, 1864.
Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Corps to December, 1864.
Artillery Brigade, 25th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia to June, 1865.
SERVICE:
A history of this Battery is on line.
3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Dept. of the South, to July, 1862.
District of Beaufort, S. C., Dept. of the South, to September, 1862.
District of Beaufort, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South to June, 1863.
United States forces Folly Island, S.C., 10th Corps, Dept. of the South, to April, 1864.
Artillery, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina to August, 1864.
Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Corps to December, 1864.
Artillery Brigade, 25th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia to June, 1865.
1861 |
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October 26 |
Organized at West Meriden and mustered in |
1862 |
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January 13 |
Left State for New York on the steamship Elm City |
January 21 |
Captain Alfred P. Bockwell took command of the battery, which embarked late that day on the ship Ellwood Walter |
Janury 27 |
Ellwood Waller leaves New York for Hilton Head, S.C. |
February 4 |
Arrived at Hilton Head |
February 5 |
Proceeded up the Broad River to Beaufort, S.C. |
Februry 6 |
Battery landed at Beaufort. |
February - April |
Duty at Hilton Head, S. C. Attached to Sherman's expeditionary corps |
April |
Assigned to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Dept. of the South |
May 31-June 28 |
Expedition to James Island and operations against Charleston, S.C. |
June 16 |
Battle of Secessionville Although several horses were killed, the battery suffered no casualties. |
May 28-July 7 |
Evacuation of James Island and movement to Hilton Head, S.C. Assigned to District of Beaufort, S. C., Dept. of the South. |
September 30-October 13 |
Expedition to St. John's Bluff, Fla.; Assigned to District of Beaufort, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South |
October 21-23 |
Expedition to Pocotaligo |
October 22 |
Frampton's Plantation, Pocotaligo |
November |
Duty at Hilton Head and at Beaufort, S.C. |
1863 |
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June |
Moved to Folly Island, S.C. and assigned to United States forces Folly Island, S.C., 10th Corps, Dept. of the South |
June |
One section embarked on the steamship Governor Milton with Colonel Higginson's First South Carolina Volunteers (Colored) to destroy the Pompon River railroad bridge. The Governor Milton ran aground on its return from the unsuccessful mission, and the two guns were sunk in the river to prevent capture. |
July 9-16 |
Expedition to James Island |
July 10 |
Williston Bluff, Pon Pon River |
July 16 |
Action on James Island |
July-April |
Siege operations against Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island and against Fort Sumter and Charleston, S.C., from Folly Island |
December |
46 of the men reenlisted as Veterans |
1864 |
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April, 18-23 |
Moved from Folly Island, S.C., to Gloucester Point, Va. on the transports General Meigs and Ella Knight, and assigned to Artillery, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
May 4-June 21 |
Butler's operations on south side of the James and against Petersburg and Richmond |
May 10 |
Chester Station |
May 12-16 |
Operations against Fort Darling |
May 14-16 |
Battle of Drewry's Bluff |
May 14 |
Proctor's Creek The battery lost Lieutenant George Metcalf and Private Wilmot killed and ten men wounded. |
May 17-June 21 |
On the Bermuda front |
June 16-17 |
Port Walthal |
June 16 |
Siege operations begin against Petersburg and Richmond |
June 21 |
Moved to Deep Bottom, Va. |
July 21 and 27-28 |
Actions at Deep Bottom |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom |
August 25 |
Moved to Petersburg front and duty in trenches before that city attached to Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Corps |
September 28 |
Moved to Deep Bottom |
September 29-30 |
Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights |
October-April |
Duty in trenches before Richmond |
November |
The battery exchanged its six pounder James Rifles for twelve pounder Napoleon guns due to the difficulty in obtaining rifled ammunition. |
December |
Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 25th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
April 3 |
Occupation of Richmond |
April-June |
Duty at Richmond and Manchester |
1865 |
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June 11 |
Mustered out at Manchester |
June 14 |
Returned to New Haven |
OFFICERS:
BATTLES:
James Island, S. C., June 3, 4, 15, 16, 1862.
Fort Finnegan, Fla., Oct. 8, 1862.
Willtown, S. C., July 10, 1863.
James Island, S. C., July 16, 1863.
James Island, S. C; Feb. 10, 1864.
Chester Station, Va., May 10, 1864.
Richmond Turnpike, Va., May 12, 1864.
Proctor's Creek, Va., May 15, 1864.
Drewry's Bluff, Va., May 16, 1864.
Bermuda Hundred, Va., May 17 to June 27, 1864.
Grover House, Va., May 27, 1864.
Wire Bottom Church, Va., June 16, 1864.
Strawberry Plains, Va., June 26, 1864.
Four Mile Creek, Va., Aug. 14, 1864.
Deep Bottom, Va., Aug. 27, 1864.
Petersburg, Va., Aug. 25 to Sept. 25, 1864.
Chapin's Bluff, Va., Oct. 7, 1864.
Johnnon's Farm, Va., Oct. 13, 27, 28, 1864.
Richmond, Va., October, 1864, to April, 1865.
ROSTERS:
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
REFERENCES:https://civilwarintheeast.com/USA/CT/1CT.php
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