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25th Connecticut Regiment Infantry.

Organized at Hartford and mustered in November 11, 1862.

Left State for East New York November 14, 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.

3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. Gulf, to August, 1863.

Service.

Duty at Baton Rouge till March, 1863.

Operations against Port Hudson March 7-27.

Moved to Donaldsonville March 28.

Operations in Western Louisiana April 9-May 14.

Teche Campaign April 11-20.

Porter's and McWilliams' Plantation at Indian Bend April 13.

Irish Bend April 14.

Bayou Vermillion April 17.

Expedition to Alexandria and Simsport May 5-18.

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.

Moved to Donaldsonville July 11.

Duty in Plaquemine District till August.

Mustered out August 26, 1863.

Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 26 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 61 Enlisted men by disease. Total 94.

1908.

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