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 (IX) Army Corps
  Division - 3rd Division, IX Corps
  Brigade - 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, IX 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): 161;
Losses, % of Initial Strength: 26.2%

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #10: Rodman's Division Crosses at Snavely's Ford
Detail Map #11: Burnside Climbs Toward Sharpsburg
Detail Map #12: AP Hill Hits Burnside's Flank

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 182 individuals who were on the Maryland Campaign in the AotW database for this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Agan, Thomas	WIA 09/16
A	Pvt	Barrett, R. Cecil	WIA 09/17
A	Corp	Blakeslee, Bernard Franklin	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Borchard, Moses	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Case, Orville J.	Died (d) 10/12
A	Sgt	Clark, Charles L.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	De Mars, Theodore E.	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Dunn, Michael	AWOL 09/17
A	Pvt	Foster, Gilbert B.	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Hagar, Edward	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Hale, Nathan	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Hill, Albert M.	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Kearney, James	AWOL 09/17
A	Pvt	Parsons, Edwin L.
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	Talcott, Arthur D. N.	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Tucker, Fellows Dixon	AWOL 09/17
A	Pvt	Wildman, Cornelius	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Callender, Elisha	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	Pvt	Grosvenor, Joseph	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	Pvt	Johnson, Charles L.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Johnson, Wilmer H.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Jones, 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
C	Pvt	Braman, John P.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Burns, Patrick	WIA 09/17
C	Corp	Collins, Charles T.	WIA 09/17
C	Corp	Cook, William H.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Fuller, James B.	WIA 09/17
C	Lt	Gonge, George S.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Lillie, Edwin B.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Loveland, John	MWIA 09/17
C	Capt	Rankin, Edward R.
C	Pvt	Stedman, Simeon	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	White, John	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Allen, George W.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Barnett, Henry	KIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Bostwick, Randall	AWOL 09/09
D	Capt	Brown, Samuel	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Carrier, David B.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Finemann, Gottfield	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Fries, Adolph	AWOL 09/09
D	Pvt	Fries, Frederick	AWOL 09/09
D	Pvt	Getman, William H.	AWOL 09/17
D	Corp	Grace, Michael	KIA 09/17
D	Corp	Jobes, Richard	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Lacy, Henry	WIA 09/17
D	Corp	Leary, 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	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	Sgt	Pratt, Collins	AWOL 11/02
D	Pvt	Smith, George B.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Snow, Nelso	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 A.	WIA 09/17
E	Corp	Barnes, Jesse O.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Bunnell, Solomon J.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Case, John E.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Chaplin, Charles H.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Cowan, William	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Grey, Robert	AWOL 10/15
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	Pvt	Baker, Samuel	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Barmby, George H.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Nichols, William W.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Waterman, William G.	AWOL 09/17
G	Pvt	Adams, Henry H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Adams, Henry Martin	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Allen, John W.	MWIA 09/17
G	Corp	Allen, Solomon Hill	KIA 09/17
G	Corp	Bowers, Charles C.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Brainard, Edwin	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Burr, Bela L.	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	Fleming, Elliott	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Gladding, Timothy	KIA 09/17
G	Capt	Hayden, Nathaniel	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Hindenlang, Leopold	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Kent, John S.	KIA 09/17
G	Sgt	King, Charles C.	MWIA 09/17
G	Corp	Lewis, Charles H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Moore, Edward	WIA 09/17
G	Corp	Munsell, Elijah	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	North, William A.	KIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Parmale, Edward A.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Penfield, Charles N.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Pfiefer, John	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Porter, Henry L.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Smith, Michael	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Smith, Walter E.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Wagner, Edward	AWOL 09/17
G	Sgt	Washburn, Wadsworth A.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Wilson, Orvil M.	MWIA 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 H.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Burke, Michael	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Cullumns, William N.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Hollister, Bridgeman J.	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Johnson, Rufus	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Keeney, Maranthon H.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Keith, Bela M.	MIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Massey, William	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Porter, William Wallace	MWIA 09/17
H	Corp	Rich, George F.	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Stoughton, Sanford	Died (d) 10/28
H	Pvt	Wetmore, Samuel	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Wilsey, Julius C.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Alford, Franklin M.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Bartlett, Andrew M.	WIA 09/17
I	Capt	Beach, Henry L.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Benson, Luna W.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Brooks, James W.	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Bugbee, Henry E.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Bulgich, Lewis	WIA 09/17
I	Sgt	Campbell, Orville	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Chadwick, Morris S.	WIA 09/17
I	Sgt	Chamberlain, Rufus	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Cooney, John	AWOL 09/17
I	Capt	Drake, John Lewis	KIA 09/17
I	Corp	Evans, Henry D.	KIA 09/17
I	Lt	Fisk, John Monroe
I	Pvt	Gengan, James	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Greegin, James	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Hawley, Robert A.	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Hines, James	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Hines, Stephen	KIA 09/17
I	Lt	Horton, William	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Lay, Horace	MWIA 09/17
I	Sgt	Macarty, Thomas	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Pierce, Edward W.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Truesdell, Augustus	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Twiss, Jason Ebenezer	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Webster, Samuel P.	AWOL 09/17
I	Pvt	Woelffer, A. Julius	AWOL 09/06
K	Pvt	Aldrich, Henry	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Barnes, Gideon S.	MWIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Bunnell, Wales T.	AWOL 09/17
K	Pvt	Funck, Augustus H.	WIA 09/17
K	Corp	Gray, John W.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Hooker, N. Charles	AWOL 09/17
K	Capt	Manross, Newton Spaulding	MWIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Smith, Edward
K	Pvt	Stone, Levi	AWOL 10/20
F&S	Col	Beach, Francis
F&S	LCol	Cheney, Frank Woodbridge	WIA 09/17
F&S	Maj	Washburn, George Abiel	WIA 09/17

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