Jumat, 09 Desember 2016

Bad Luck Regiment: The 16th Connecticut Infantry

For one contingent of Connecticut’s loyal sons, the war seemed to bring one disaster after another. The 16th Connecticut Infantry, raised in the late summer of 1862, was one of the Union Army’s particularly ill-fated units. The regiment fought at the Battle of Antietam when it was wholly unprepared for combat, with predictably catastrophic results. …

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