24th Connecticut Infantry

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Middletown and mustered in November 18, 1862. Left State for East New York November 18, thence sailed for New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La., November 29, arriving there December 17. Attached to Grover's Division, Dept. of the Gulf, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, to July, 1863. Defenses of New Orleans to August, 1863.

SERVICE.--Duty at Baton Rouge until March, 1863. Operations against Port Hudson March 7-27. Moved to Donaldsonville March 28. Operations in Western Louisiana April 9-May 14.

• April 11-20, 1863 - The (I) Bayou Teche Campaign

Irish Bend April 14. Bayou Vermillion April 17. Expedition to Alexandria and Simsport May 5-18.

• April 18, 1863 - Affair at New Iberia, Louisiana

Moved to Bayou Sara, thence to Port Hudson, May 22-25. Siege of Port Hudson May 25-July 9. Assaults on Port Hudson May 27 and June 14. Surrender of Port Hudson July 9. Ordered to Plaquemine District July 11, and duty there until September. Mustered out September 30, 1863.

Regiment lost during service 16 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 57 Enlisted men by disease. Total, 75.

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Page 745, 746, 1015)