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:

1861
October 26	Organized at West Meriden and mustered in
1862
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
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
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
June 11	Mustered out at Manchester
June 14	Returned to New Haven

OFFICERS: BATTLES:

Pocotaligo, S. C., May 28, 1862.
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:
The roster of this regiment contains 388 names.
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REFERENCES:
Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion
http://civilwarintheeast.com/USA/CT/1CT.php