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Seventh Connecticut Infantry.
Hawley's Brigade —
Terry's Division--Tenth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | | | | 3 | | 3 | 17 |
| Company | A | | 32 | 32 | | 23 | 23 | 174 |
| | B | 2 | 15 | 17 | | 31 | 31 | 161 |
| | C | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 26 | 26 | 155 |
| | D | 2 | 19 | 21 | | 23 | 23 | 168 |
| | E | 2 | 14 | 16 | 1 | 16 | 17 | 139 |
| | F | 1 | 15 | 16 | | 10 | 10 | 192 |
| | G | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 11 | 11 | 166 |
| | H | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 18 | 18 | 150 |
| | I | 1 | 15 | 16 | | 17 | 17 | 181 |
| | K | | 15 | 15 | | 17 | 17 | 154 |
| Totals | 11 | 157 | 168 | 4 | 192 | 196 | 1,657 |
168 killed == 10.1 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 598; died of disease in Confederate prisons (previously included), 68.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| James Island, S. C. | 19 | Deep Bottom, Va. | 15 |
| Pocotaligo, S. C. | 6 | Near Richmond, Va., Oct. 1, 1864 | 3 |
| Morris Island, S. C. | 4 | New Market Road, Va., Oct. 7, 1864 | 2 |
| Fort Wagner, S. C. | 28 | Darbytown Road, Va., Oct. 13, 1864 | 5 |
| Olustee, Fla. | 10 | Charles City Road, Va., Oct. 27, 1864 | 2 |
| Drewry's Bluff, Va. | 45 | Fort Fisher, N. C. | 5 |
| Bermuda Hundred, Va. | 24 | | |
Present, also, at
Fort Pulaski;
Chester Station;
Wilmington.
notes.--Recruited in various counties of the
State.
Colonel Terry had already served as
Colonel of the Second, a three months regiment which fought at
First Bull Run.
It left the
State September 18, 1861, and in the following month sailed from
Annapolis for
Port Royal, with
General Sherman's (T. W.) expedition.
It displayed a praiseworthy efficiency and steadiness in its first battle —
James Island — where, when ordered to retire, it halted, dressed its alignment under fire, and retired by battalion front as if on parade; casualties, 9 killed, 69 wounded, and 4 missing. In January, 1863, it went to
Fernandina, Fla., but in May, four companies — A, B, I, and K, returned to
Hilton Head, S. C. These four companies were in
Strong's Brigade, and were engaged in the first assault on
Fort Wagner, July 11, 1863, where they displayed unusual gallantry.
Out of 191 officers and men carried to that assault, 103 were killed, wounded or missing.
At
Drewry's Bluff, the Seventh sustained its greatest loss; 30 killed, 104 wounded, and 69 missing or prisoners.
In the affair at
Bermuda Hundred, June 2d, 1864, it also lost 78 captured, in addition to 25 killed or wounded.
The regiment sailed with
General Terry's expedition to
Fort Fisher--then in
Abbott's Brigade,
Ames's Division,--and took part in the successful storming of that stronghold.
After the capture of
Fort Fisher, the Tenth Corps, and with it the Seventh Connecticut, remained in
North Carolina until after the close of the war.
