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A plate showing the uniform of a U.S. Army first sergeant, circa 1858, influenced by the French army. The military uniforms of the Union Army in the American Civil War were widely varied and, due to limitations on supply of wool and other materials, based on availability and cost of materials. [1]
As the war continued, three hundred thousand more men were requested, with Connecticut's quota was listed as 7,145 being divided into six regiments. On July 1, 1862, Governor Buckingham announced the need for more men and by August 22 the quota was filled. [3]: 16 It was mustered by Colonel Webb the following day. [3]: 16
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. Hill, Isaac J. A Sketch of the 29th Regiment of Connecticut Colored Troops (Baltimore: Printed by Daughtery, Maguire), 1867. McCain, Diana Ross. Connecticut's African American Soldiers in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (Hartford, CT: Connecticut Historical Commission), 2000.
Renda, Lex. "'A White Man's State in New England': Race, Party, and Suffrage in Civil War Connecticut," in Paul A. Cimbala and Randall Miller, eds., An Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front (Fordham University Press, 2002), pp. 243–279. Talmadge, John E. (1964). "A Peace Movement in Civil War Connecticut". New England ...
The 1st Connecticut Infantry Regiment, officially designated the 1st Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Men were recruited under the calls of President Lincoln on 15 April 1861 and Governor Buckingham the following day [1] [2]
A Volunteer's Adventures: A Union Captain's Record of the Civil War (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press), 1946. [reprinted in 1970] Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. Attribution. This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908).
The 23rd Connecticut Infantry Regiment was organized at Hartford, Connecticut, on November 14, 1862. The regiment was attached the Defenses of New Orleans and District of La Fourche, Department of the Gulf. The 23rd Connecticut Infantry mustered out of service August 31, 1863.
The 8th Connecticut Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Buckingham, Hartford, in September, 1861, It was first commanded by Colonel Edward Harland of Norwich.The regiment drew most of its enlisted men from northern Hartford and Litchfield counties and was composed mostly of merchants and farmers from the Housatonic River and Connecticut River Valleys south to near New Milford and north to ...