6th Connecticut Regiment The 6th Connecticut Regiment was raised on May 1 , 1775 , at New Haven , Connecticut , as a provincial regiment for the Continental Army . It then became a regiment of the Continental Line on January 1 , 1776 , designated the 10th Continental Regiment , and a regiment of the Connecticut Line on January 1 , 1777 , again designated the 6th Connecticut . The regiment saw action at the siege of Boston , the Battle of Long Island , the New York Campaign , and its colonel and company of light infantry served in the Corps of Light Infantry at the Battle of Stony Point . The regiment was merged into the 1st Connecticut Regiment on January 1 , 1783 at West Point , New York and disbanded on November 16 , 1783 . History . The 6th Connecticut Regiment , a provincial regiment , was raised on May 1 , 1775 , under the command of Col . Samuel Holden Parsons . In June , under the " 1st establishment " of the Continental Army , it joined Gen . George Washington at the Siege of Boston . In August , to promote cohesion among the various colonial units , regiments were given precedence by Washington and the 6th Connecticut was also designated the " 13th Regiment of Foot . " In September , in the " 2nd establishment " , Congress re - authorized the Continental Army for the year 1776 , with Connecticut aloocated to supply five regiments , to be numbered in the " Continental Line " as of January 1 , 1776 , and to serve until December 31 , 1776 . The 6th Connecticut became the 10th Continental Regiment on January 1 , with Parsons as its colonel . On August 9 , 1776 , Parsons became a brigadier general in the Continental Army and John Tyler , who had been appointed lieutenant colonel of the 10th Continentals on January 1 , became its colonel . During this period another regiment known as the " Connecticut State Regiment " was authorized by Connecticut on June 20 , 1776 , for home defense with William Douglas , then a captain of the 1st Connecticut Regiment , appointed as its colonel . The state regiment was raised at New Haven by Douglas and in Middletown by Return Jonathan Meigs , a major of the 2nd Connecticut Regiment then on parole after being captured during Arnold ' s Invasion of Canada . The Continental Army was authorized under the " 3rd establishment " on January 1 , 1777 , with enlistments to last for the duration of the war . Connecticut was now allocated to supply eight regiments of infantry . The 10th Continental Regiment became the 6th Regiment of the Connecticut Line on January 1 , with Douglas appointed as it new colonel . Meigs , then lieutenant colonel of Sherburne ' s Additional Continental Regiment , returned to take command of the 6th Connecticut on May 12 , 1777 , when Douglas became ill . Douglas died on May 28 and Meigs was commissioned as colonel of the 6th Connecticut on September 10 , with his date of rank retroactive to May 12 . On May 23 , 1777 , three weeks after the Battle of Ridgefield , Col . Meigs and 170 men from New Haven left Guilford , Connecticut in 13 whale boats and 2 armed sloops , bringing with them an extra sloop in which to bring back prisoners . This raid was planned as a reprisal for the British Brig . Gen . William Tryon ' s raid on Danbury , Connecticut whose action had cost the life of General David Wooster of New Haven . Landing on Long Island they marched across to Sag Harbor , surprised the garrison , burned a dozen vessels , destroyed a large quantity of military stores , killed several of the enemy and took 90 prisoners , without losing a man . For this action , Col . Meigs was voted a Sword by Congress , which now hangs in the National Museum of American History in Washington , D . C . After the Sag Harbor raid , the 6th Connecticut went to Peekskill , New York to join the other regiments of the Connecticut Line . The Connecticut Line wintered at West Point during the winter of 1777 - 1778 . While there , they constructed the " Meigs Redoubt " and other fortifications in the area . In the summer of 1778 , the Connecticut Line was encamped with the Main Army under General Washington at White Plains , New York , near the site of the 1776 battle . It was here that the Connecticut Line was divided into two brigades , which stood until January 1 , 1781 . The 6th Connecticut was placed in the 1st Brigade under Parsons . From White Plains , they took up winter quarters at Redding , Connecticut . The troops built huts and settled in . Maj . Gen . Israel Putnam took command of all forces at Redding . In the early part of 1779 , the 6th Connecticut was encamped on the Highlands across from West Point . When Tryon raided Connecticut in July , the Connecticut Line was sent to defend its own state , but arrived after Tryon and his men had left . The Connecticut Line was then called on to provide a number of Light Infantry Companies to join with Brig . Gen . " Mad " Anthony Wayne . Being a light infantry regiment , the 6th Connecticut filled the role perfectly and was sent , under Col . Meigs , to join with General Wayne . On July 15 , 1779 this force successfully stormed the British fort at Stony Point on the Hudson River . From Stony Point , the 6th Connecticut was stationed with the Connecticut Line around West Point where it worked again on fortifications in the area . Maj . Gen . Baron Von Steuben praised the Connecticut Line for their proficiency on performing his manual of arms exercises . The Morristown huts in New Jersey were the site of winter quarters for the two Connecticut Brigades in the winter of 1779 - 80 . While the troops were in Morristown , the Connecticut troops protested their conditions and mutinied . Col . Meigs quelled this mutiny with reason and affection and with no loss of life . A letter from General Washington commended him for this action . The Connecticut Line spent the summer of 1780 along the Hudson and while in Orangetown , New Jersey , heard of the treason of Connecticut ' s own Brig . Gen . Benedict Arnold and his flight to the British on September 25 . The Connecticut 6th Regiment was ordered to West Point to defend any attack the enemy might have planned . There was no attack and Connecticut Line went into winter quarters near West Point . In 1781 , the 6th Connecticut was consolidated with part of the 4th as the Continental forces wound down their forces pending the outcome of peace talks in Paris . Peace came two years later in September 1783 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris .