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Muster In: Organized at New Haven September 13, 1861. Mustered in September 17, 1861.1,2
Muster Out: Mustered out July 20, 1865, and discharged at New Haven August 11, 1865.3,4
Commander(s):
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel C. Rodman
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Captain John Thompson
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Lieutenant Colonel Seager S. Atwell
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Captain Henry B. Gill
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First Offensive Order of Battle: Second Brigade | First Division | X Corps | Army of the James | Union Army7,8
- Commander:
- Unit Strength:
- Weapons: Spencer’s Breech-loading Rifles (.52 caliber) (June 30, 1864)9
Second Offensive Order of Battle: Second Brigade | First Division | X Corps | Army of the James | Union Army10,11
- Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Daniel C. Rodman (June 30, 1864)12
- Unit Strength:
- Weapons: Spencer’s Breech-loading Rifles (.52 caliber) (June 30, 1864)13
Third Offensive Order of Battle: Second Brigade | First Division | X Corps | Army of the James | Union Army14,15
- Commander: Captain John Thompson (July 31, 1864)16
- Unit Strength:
- Weapons:
Fourth Offensive Order of Battle: Second Brigade | First Division | X Corps | Army of the James | Union Army17,18
- Commander: Captain Seager S. Atwell (August 31, 1864)19
- Unit Strength:
- Weapons:
Fifth Offensive Order of Battle: Second Brigade | First Division | X Corps | Army of the James | Union Army20,21,22,23
- Commander:
- Unit Strength:
- Weapons: Spencer’s Breech-loading Rifles (.52 caliber) (September 30, 1864)24
Sixth Offensive Order of Battle: Second Brigade | First Division | X Corps | Army of the James | Union Army25,26
- Commander: Captain Seager S. Atwell (October 31, 1864)27
- Unit Strength:
- Weapons:
Seventh Offensive Order of Battle:
Second Brigade | First Division | X Corps | Army of the James | Union Army (November 1-December 3, 1864)28
Second Brigade | First Division | XXIV Corps | Army of the James | Union Army (December 3-31, 1864) 29
- Commander: Captain Henry B. Gill (December 31, 1864)30
- Unit Strength:
- Weapons:
- Note: On December 3, 1864, the X Corps and XVIII Corps of the Army of the James were reorganized into the XXIV Corps and the XXV Corps.
- Note: Detached for duty at New York City during Presidential election of 1864, November 2-17. 31
Eighth Offensive Order of Battle: Second Brigade | First Division | XXIV Corps | Army of the James | Union Army32
- Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Seager S. Atwell (January 31, 1865)33
- Unit Strength:
- Weapons:
- Note: The 7th Connecticut and its brigade (2/1/XXIV/AotJ) were absent on an expedition to Fort Fisher, North Carolina on January 31, 1865. The brigade had been pulled from the trenches near Richmond on January 3, 1865, and would not return to the Siege of Petersburg.34,35
Ninth Offensive Order of Battle:
- No longer at the Siege of Petersburg.36
Dyer’s/Sifakis’ Compendium Info:
Siege of Petersburg Battles37:
- On the Bermuda Hundred lines May 16-August 13.
- Petersburg June 9.
- Bermuda Hundred June 14.
- Port Walthal June 16-17.
- Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to January 3, 1865.
- Demonstration on north side of the James August 13-20.
- Battle of Strawberry Plains Deep Bottom August 14-18.
- In trenches before Petersburg August 25 to September 28.
- Moved to north side of the James September 28.
- Battle of Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30.
- Darbytown and New Market Roads October 7.
- Darbytown Road October 13.
- Battle of Fair Oaks October 27-28.
- Detached for duty at New York City during Presidential election of 1864, November 2-17.
- Duty in trenches before Richmond till January 3, 1865.
Bibliography:
Siege of Petersburg Documents Which Mention This Unit:
- 7th CT: Seventh Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry: January 1864 to August 1865
- LT: June 17, 1864 Benjamin Wright (10th Connecticut)
- NP: September (?) 9, 1864 Windham County Transcript: Twenty-ninth (CT) Regiment
- OR XLII P1 #269: Report of Captain John Thompson, 7th CT, August 13-16, 1864
- OR XLII P1 #270: Reports of Captain Seager S. Atwell, 7th CT, Aug 17-21, Sept 28-Oct 7, Oct 13 and 27-28, 1864
Sources:
- A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3) ↩
- Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of Connecticut, for the Year Ending March 31, 1866 (Hartford, CT: A. N. Clark & Co., State Printers, 1866), p. 227 ↩
- A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3) ↩
- Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of Connecticut, for the Year Ending March 31, 1866 (Hartford, CT: A. N. Clark & Co., State Printers, 1866), p. 227 ↩
- Daniel C. Rodman image. MOLLUS-Mass Civil War Photograph Collection, Volume 97, Page 4985. United States Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, PA. ↩
- Seager S. Atwell image. MOLLUS-Mass Civil War Photograph Collection, Volume 97, Page 4985. United States Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, PA. ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 1 (Serial Number 80), p. 233 ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 2 (Serial Number 81), p. 553 ↩
- Volume 13 (Ordnance Returns for the Second Quarter, April-June, 1864); 7th Connecticut Entry, Page 10; Summary Statements of Quarterly Returns of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores on Hand in Regular and Volunteer Army Organizations, 1862-1867, 1870-1876. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1281, Roll 7); Records of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1797-1969, Record Group 156; National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 1 (Serial Number 80), p. 233 ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 2 (Serial Number 81), p. 553 ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 2 (Serial Number 81), p. 553 ↩
- Volume 13 (Ordnance Returns for the Second Quarter, April-June, 1864); 7th Connecticut Entry, Page 10; Summary Statements of Quarterly Returns of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores on Hand in Regular and Volunteer Army Organizations, 1862-1867, 1870-1876. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1281, Roll 7); Records of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1797-1969, Record Group 156; National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 1 (Serial Number 80), page 263 ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 3 (Serial Number 82), page 738 ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 3 (Serial Number 82), page 738 ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 2 (Serial Number 88), page 619: “Organization of the Army of the Potomac…August 31, 1864” ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 1 (Serial Number 87), page 119: “Return of Casualties in the Union Forces (August 1864)” ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 2 (Serial Number 88), page 619: “Organization of the Army of the Potomac…August 31, 1864” ↩
- Sommers, Richard J. “Grant’s Fifth Offensive at Petersburg: A Study in Strategy, Tactics, and Generalship. The Battle of Poplar Spring Church, the First Battle of the Darbytown Road, the Second Battle of the Squirrel Level Road, the Second Battle of the Darbytown Road (Ulysses S. Grant, Virginia).” Doctoral Thesis. Rice University, 1970. Print. p. 1303. ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 1 (Serial Number 87), page 133: “Return of Casualties in the Union Forces (September-October 1864)” ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 1 (Serial Number 87), page 145: “Return of Casualties in the Union Forces (September-October 1864)” ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 1 (Serial Number 87), page 146: “Return of Casualties in the Union Forces (September-October 1864)” ↩
- Volume 15 (Ordnance Returns for the Third Quarter, July-September, 1864); 7th Connecticut Entry, Page 9; Summary Statements of Quarterly Returns of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores on Hand in Regular and Volunteer Army Organizations, 1862-1867, 1870-1876. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1281, Roll 7); Records of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1797-1969, Record Group 156; National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 3 (Serial Number 89), page 465: “Organization of the Union Forces” (October 31, 1864)” ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 1 (Serial Number 87), page 149: “Return of Casualties in the Union Forces…Fair Oaks and Darbytown Road, Va., October 27-28, 1864” ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 3 (Serial Number 89), page 465: “Organization of the Union Forces” (October 31, 1864)” ↩
- A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3) ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 3 (Serial Number 89), page 1124: “Organization of the Union Forces” (December 31, 1864) ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 3 (Serial Number 89), page 1124: “Organization of the Union Forces” (December 31, 1864) ↩
- A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3) ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLVI, Part 2 (Serial Number 96), page 334: “Organization of the Union Forces” (January 31, 1865) ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLVI, Part 2 (Serial Number 96), page 334: “Organization of the Union Forces” (January 31, 1865) ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLVI, Part 2 (Serial Number 96), page 334: “Organization of the Union Forces” (January 31, 1865) ↩
- A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3) ↩
- A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3) ↩
- A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3) ↩