Federal Regiment

16th Connecticut Infantry

Organized: Hartford County, CT; mustered in 8/24/1862

Commanding Officer on the Antietam Campaign:
Col. Francis Beach

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Ninth Army Corps
  Division - 3rd Division, 9th Corps
  Brigade - 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Corps

Unit history

The 16th Connecticut was formed in Hartford County, Connecticut, and was mustered into service August 24, 1862. Three weeks later the regiment first saw action at the Battle of Antietam, Maryland as part of Burnside's Ninth Army Corps. Having loaded muskets for the first time only the day before the battle, the regiment suffered significant casualties at Antietam.

Statistics

Initial Strength: 779; Killed in Action (KIA): 43; Wounded (WIA): 176; Captured (POW): 21;
Losses, % of Initial Strength: 30.8%

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #8: Rodman's Division Crosses at Snavely's Ford (10 am-1 pm)
Detail Map #12: Burnside's Ninth Corps Climbs Toward Sharpsburg (3-4 pm)
Detail Map #13: AP Hill's Division Hits Burnside's Flank (4-5 pm)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #56: Ninth Army Corps - 15 Sep, 7 AM to 16 Sep, 3 PM
Tablet #122: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 10 AM to 17 Sep, 6 PM
Tablet #70, cont: Ninth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 3 PM to 17 Sep, 5 PM
Tablet #65: Rodman's Division, Ninth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM
Tablet #70: Ninth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 3 PM
Tablet #57: Ninth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM
Tablet #67: Harland's Brigade, Rodman's Division - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM

We have 306 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Agan, Thomas	WIA 09/16
A	Corp	Barrett, Richard Cecil	WIA/POW 09/17
A	Corp	Blakeslee, Bernard Franklin	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Borchard, Moses	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Burke, Thomas F.
A	Pvt	Case, Orville Jerome	Died (d) 10/12
A	Pvt	Clancy, James Batholomew
A	Sgt	Clark, Charles Le Roy	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	De Mars, Theodore Edward	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Dunn, Michael	AWOL 09/17
A	Pvt	Foster, Gilbert B.	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	French, Ethelbert	WIA 09/17
A	Corp	Gemmill, John
A	Pvt	Griswold, Moses Goodman	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Hagar, Edward Augustus	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Hale, Nathan	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Hatch, Albert S.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Hill, Albert M.	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Hooker, William Griswold	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Hope, Norman Lambert
A	Pvt	Kearney, James	AWOL 09/17
A	Pvt	Kellogg, Robert Hale	WIA 09/17
A	Lt	Lockwood, William Henry
A	Pvt	Maxwell, William	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Miller, Jeffrey Dwight
A	Pvt	Parsons, Edwin L.	Died (d) 11/07
A	Capt	Pasco, Henry L.
A	Pvt	Pease, Charles W.	KIA 09/17
A	Corp	Rhodes, Henry W.	AWOL 09/17
A	Pvt	Robinson, David	AWOL 09/17
A	Pvt	Skinner, Lewis B.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Smith, Lester R.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Speirs, Robert	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Sternberg, William Frederick	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Talcott, Arthur DeNeufville	MWIA 09/17
A	Lt	Tennant, Charles A.
A	Pvt	Thayer, Merwin	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Tucker, Fellows Dixon	AWOL 09/17
A	Pvt	Turner, William B.	POW 09/17
A	Corp	Whalen, James B.
A	Pvt	White, John J.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Whitney, George Quimby	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Wildman, Cornelius	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Willey, Newton	WIA 09/17
B	Lt	Barnum, Joseph Hall
B	Pvt	Brown, Francis A.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Callender, Elisha Warren	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Chalmers, James	AWOL 09/17
B	Pvt	Duff, William	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Foster, Philip Henry	KIA 09/17
B	Lt	Goodell, Henry O.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Grosvenor, Joseph A.	KIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Grosvenor, Samuel E.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Hamilton, Hancey	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Hunn, Horace	Died (d) 10/12
B	Sgt	James, John M.
B	Pvt	Johnson, Charles L.	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Johnson, Henry
B	Pvt	Jones, Jr., Joseph J.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Kitchen, James A.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Loper, Thomas H.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Pinney, Delos Rensselaer	Died (d) 10/12
B	Pvt	Prior, Seth Franklin	KIA 09/17
B	Corp	Safford, William P.	MWIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Tefft, Adelbert F.	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	Thomas, Frederick H.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Tudor, Samuel	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Braman, John P.	KIA 09/17
C	Corp	Collins, Charles T.	WIA 09/17
C	Corp	Cook, William H.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Fuller, James Bradley	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Gilmore, John	WIA 09/17
C	Lt	Gouge, George S.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Howe, George S.	WIA 09/17
C	Corp	LeVaughn, Roland
C	Pvt	Lillie, Erwin B.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Loveland, John	MWIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Payne, Silas A.	POW 09/17
C	Capt	Rankin, Edward Everett
C	Pvt	Söckel, Carl Johann Frederick Helmuth	POW 09/17
C	Pvt	Stedman, Simeon	WIA 09/17
C	Corp	Sweet, James F.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Tracy, Henry Fitch
C	Lt	Waters, John M.	WIA 09/17
C	Mus	White, John	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Allen, George W.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Anthony, Henry	POW 09/17
D	Pvt	Ball, John B.	POW 09/17
D	Pvt	Barnett, Henry	KIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Bostick, Randall O.	AWOL 09/17
D	Pvt	Bosworth, Francis H.	POW 09/17
D	Pvt	Bottum, Erastus	POW 09/17
D	Capt	Brown, Samuel	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Burke, Michael	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Carrier, David B.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Fienemann, Gottfried	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Foale, William R. P.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Fries, Adolph	AWOL 09/17
D	Pvt	Fries, Frederick	AWOL 09/17
D	Pvt	Garrett, James D.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Getman, William H.	AWOL 09/17
D	Corp	Grace, Michael	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Hickton, James	WIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Hintz, Henry
D	Pvt	Hitchcock, Lyman Allen	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Jobes, Ashbury	POW 09/17
D	Corp	Jobes, Richard	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Lacey, Jr., Henry James	WIA 09/17
D	Corp	Leavy, Patrick	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Lester, Charles H.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Letcher, John B.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Margerum, Claudius C.	WIA 09/17
D	Corp	Mayher, Timothy	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	McDonald, Patrick	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Mitchell, William G.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Noll, Henry W.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Persse, John	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Pierce, Dwight	WIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Pratt, Collins	AWOL 11/02
D	Pvt	Relyea, William H.
D	Pvt	Rhaum, Norman S.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Riley, John	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Ryan, Nicholas	AWOL 09/17
D	Pvt	Siggins, William	WIA/POW 09/17
D	Pvt	Smith, George B.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Snow, Nelson E.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Tate, John	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Wardwell, Royal Emerson	MWIA 09/17
D	Corp	Warner, Horace	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Waters, Nathaniel A.	AWOL 09/17
D	Pvt	Webster, William	AWOL 09/17
D	Pvt	Wessels, Helmuth	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Wessels, Louis	WIA 09/17
E	Capt	Babcock, Charles	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Barnes, Ham Allen	WIA 09/17
E	Corp	Barnes, Jesse O.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Bunnell, Solomon T.	WIA 09/17
E	Sgt	Case, Alonzo Grove
E	Sgt	Case, Ariel Job
E	Pvt	Case, John Elam	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Champlin, Charles H.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Cowan, William	MWIA 09/17
E	Lt	Emmons, James Curtis
E	Pvt	Grey, Robert	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Holcomb, Gavette Burt
E	Pvt	Holcomb, Jr., Lewis Monroe
E	Sgt	Lee, Richard Henry
E	Pvt	McGrath, James	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Morgan, Robert P.	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Shepard, Miles D.	Died (d) 11/13
E	Pvt	Stevens, Charles G.	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Viets, Charles W.	AWOL 09/17
F	Corp	Baker, Samuel	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Barmby, George H.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Curley, James	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Jenner, Lorenzo D.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Leech, James	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Martin, James B.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Nichols, William W.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Perry, John Howard	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Phelps, George Benedict	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Powers, Richard	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Randall, Van Buren	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Ray, Benjamin C.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Russell, Benjamin R.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Verden, Thomas	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Waterman, Charles H.	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Waterman, William G.	POW 09/17
F	Pvt	Welch, Michael H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Adams, Henry H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Adams, Henry Martin	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Allen, John Willey	MWIA 09/17
G	Corp	Allen, Solomon Hill	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Alling, Edwin	POW 09/17
G	Pvt	Andrus, Wallace Roswell
G	Lt	Beach, Henry Ledlie	WIA 09/17
G	Corp	Bowers, Charles Clapp	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Brainard, Edwin	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Burr, Bela Lewellyn	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Burr, Francis W.	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Chamberlain, George F.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Clancy, Terrence	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Cleary, John	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Creighton, George	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Fleming, Elliot	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Gladding, Timothy	KIA 09/17
G	Capt	Hayden, Nathaniel	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Herlitschek, Leopold	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Hindenlang, Leopold	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Kent, John S.	KIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Kimball, George Robinson	WIA 09/17
G	Sgt	King, Charles Curtis	MWIA 09/17
G	Corp	Lewis, Charles H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Merritt, George Sumner
G	Pvt	Moore, Edward	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Morrill, Leonard Green	POW 09/17
G	Corp	Munsell, Elijah	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	North, William A.	KIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Parmele, Edward A.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Parsons, Arthur H.	POW 09/17
G	Pvt	Penfield, Charles North	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Pfeifer, John	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Porter, Henry Lyman	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Savage, Henry Elliot
G	Pvt	Smith, Michael	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Smith, Walter Elliott	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Stratton, Henry M.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Strunz, Adolph	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Wagner, Edward	AWOL 09/17
G	Sgt	Washburn, Wadsworth Asahel	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Wilson, Orville Merritt	MWIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Wolcott, Washington De Forest	WIA/POW 09/17
G	Pvt	Wright, Joseph Henry	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Annis, Henry B.	WIA 09/17
H	Capt	Barber, Frederick Martiner	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Bingham, John Fuller	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Bingham, Wells A.
H	Pvt	Bowen, Charles F.	WIA 09/17
H	Sgt	Brown, Edwin Horace	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Cullumns, William N.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Gates, Waldo James	POW 09/17
H	Pvt	Hollister, Bridgeman J.	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Johnson, Rufus	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Keeney, Maranthon Hiram	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Keith, Jr., Bela M.	POW 09/17
H	Pvt	Massey, William	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	McKee, Charles Henry	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	McNall, George	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Porter, William Wallace	MWIA 09/17
H	Corp	Rich, George Francis	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Risley, Elisha	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Stoughton, Sanford	Died (d) 10/28
H	Lt	Thompson, Samuel Hopkins
H	Pvt	Tullar, Austin Milleon	AWOL 09/19
H	Pvt	Wetmore, Samuel	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Wilsey, Julius C.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Alford, Franklin Mills	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Amadon, William Perry
I	Pvt	Bartlett, Andrew M.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Benson, Luna W.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Brooks, James Willard	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Bugbee, Henry Egbert	WIA/POW 09/17
I	Pvt	Bulgick, Lewis	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Burgess, Ezra Thomas
I	Sgt	Campbell, Wareham Paulina Orville	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Case, Lucien Fernando	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Chadwick, Samuel Morris	WIA 09/17
I	Sgt	Chamberlin, Rufus	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Chamberlin, Rufus Monroe
I	Pvt	Cooney, John	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Cunneen, Thomas	POW 09/17
I	Capt	Drake, John Louis	KIA 09/17
I	Corp	Evans, Henry D.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Evans, Newton J.	WIA 09/17
I	Lt	Fisk, John Monroe
I	Pvt	Grugan, James	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Guiney, Patrick	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Harris, Jasper Stanford	POW 09/17
I	Pvt	Hawley, Robert Augustus	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Himes, James	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Himes, Stephen	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Holley, Lewis	WIA 09/17
I	Lt	Horton, William	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Jewett, Marcius Dania	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Kimball, Marvin D.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Lay, Horace	MWIA 09/17
I	Corp	Lucas, Elijah	WIA 09/17
I	Sgt	Macarty, Thomas	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	McGrath, Martin	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Parker, Charles W.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Parkess, Albert	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Pierce, Edward W.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Read, Moses S.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Smith, Henry L.	POW 09/17
I	Pvt	Towne, Hiram	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Truesdell, Augustus	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Twiss, Jason Ebenezer	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Wakefield, William
I	Pvt	Webster, Samuel Porter	AWOL 09/17
I	Pvt	Whitney, George F.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Whiton, Nelson	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Woelffer, A. Julius	AWOL 09/17
I	Pvt	Woodford, Wallace C.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Young, Nelson D.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Aldrich, Henry	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Barnes, Gideon S.	MWIA 09/17
K	Sgt	Bristol, Henry
K	Sgt	Bruns, Harmy
K	Pvt	Bunnell, Wales Theodore	AWOL 09/17
K	Pvt	Funck, Augustus H.	WIA 09/17
K	Corp	Gray, John W.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Hooker, Charles Noadiah	AWOL 09/17
K	Corp	Lee, Mortimer F.	WIA 09/17
K	Capt	Manross, Newton Spaulding	MWIA 09/17
K	Lt	Robinson, Timothy Boardman
K	Pvt	Sharp, Theodore W.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Smith, Edward
K	Pvt	Stone, Levi	WIA 10/17
K	Sgt	Taylor, Charles Lyman
F&S	Col	Beach, Francis
F&S	Lt	Burnham, John Henry
F&S	LCol	Cheney, Frank Woodbridge	WIA 09/17
F&S	Sgt	Dickerson, Alfred A
F&S	ASrg	Nickerson, Jr., Nehemiah
F&S	Surg	Warner, Abner Spicer
F&S	Maj	Washburn, George Abiel	WIA 09/17

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