The Nutmeg Regiment, 14th Connecticut

From Civil War in the East.

The 14th Connecticut lost 17 officers and 188  enlisted men killed or mortally wounded during the war.  In addition, one officer and 191 men died from disease.

The 14th sustained the largest percentage of loss of any Connecticut regiment.

The regiment is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.  Inscription on that monument reads:  "Lost in killed and died in service 366;  in wounded and disabled many hundreds.  Original muster 1015; recruits 697, final muster of original members, present and absent, 234."

Like I Said, One Heavy-Fighting Regiment.   --Old Secesh