22nd Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The 22nd Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War for nine months.

Service

The 22nd Connecticut Infantry was organized at Hartford, Connecticut on September 20, 1862 under the command of Colonel George S. Burnham.

The regiment was attached to 2nd Brigade, Abercrombie's Division, Military District of Washington, and XXII Corps, Department of Washington, to April 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, VII Corps, Department of Virginia, to May 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps, Department of Virginia, to July 1863.

The 22nd Connecticut Infantry mustered out of service July 7, 1863.

Detailed service

The regiment left Connecticut for Washington, D.C., October 2, 1862. It then performed Picket duty at Langley's, Virginia, on Washington and Leesburg Turnpike, Defenses of Washington, D.C., until October 22, 1862. At Miner's Hill until February 12, 1863. Expedition to intercept J. E. B. Stuart's Cavalry December 29-30, 1862. Fatigue duty, building Fort Craig, Fort McDowell, and Fort McClellan, Defenses of Washington, until April 14, 1863. Moved to Suffolk, Va., April 14-16. Siege of Suffolk April 16-May 4. Siege of Suffolk raised May 4. Moved to West Point, York River, Va., May 5, and duty there until June 9. Reconnaissance to the Chickahominy June 9-10. Left Yorktown for Connecticut June 26.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 20 enlisted men during service, all due to disease.

Commanders

• Colonel George S. Burnham

See also

• Connecticut in the American Civil War
• List of Connecticut Civil War units

References

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
• History of the Twenty-Second Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, 1862-3 (Hartford, CT: Hartford Print. Co.), 1896.
• Reunion and 25th Anniversary of the Muster In of the 22d Regiment Conn. Vol. at Windsor, Conn., September 20, 1887 (Hartford, CT: Clark & Smith), 1888.
• Waters, Elizur W. An Allegory on the Members of Company E, 22nd Regiment, C.V. (Hartford, CT: Press of Case, Lockwood), 1863.
• Waters, Elizur W. A Journal of Incidents Connected with the Travels of the Twenty-Second Regiment Conn. Volunteers, for Nine Months, in Verse (Hartford, CT: Williams, Wiley and Waterman), 1863.

Attribution

• This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.