13th Connecticut Infantry Regiment The 13th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 13th Connecticut Infantry was organized at New Haven , Connecticut beginning November 25 , 1861 and mustered in for a three - year enlistment on January 7 , 1862 under the command of Colonel Henry Warner Birge . The regiment was attached to 1st Brigade , Department of the Gulf , to September 1862 . Weitzel ' s Reserve Brigade , Department Gulf , to December 1862 . Grover ' s Division , Department of the Gulf , to January 1863 . 3rd Brigade , 3rd Division , XIX Corps , Department of the Gulf , January 1863 . 2nd Brigade , 4th Division , XIX Corps , to March 1863 . 3rd Brigade , 4th Division , XIX Corps , to August 1863 . 1st Brigade , 4th Division , XIX Corps , to February 1864 . 2nd Brigade , 2nd Division , XIX Corps , Department of the Gulf , to July 1864 , and Army of the Shenandoah , Middle Military Division , to January 1865 . District of Savannah , Georgia , Department of the South , to March 1865 . 1st Brigade , 1st Division , X Corps , Department of North Carolina , to April 1865 . District of Georgia , Department of the South , to April 1866 . The 13th Connecticut Infantry mustered out of service April 25 , 1866 at Fort Pulaski , Georgia . Detailed service . Left Connecticut for Ship Island , Miss . , March 17 , 1862 , arriving there April 13 . Operations against Forts St . Phillip and Jackson , Mississippi River , April 15 – 28 , 1862 . Occupation of New Orleans , La . , May 1 . Duty at Camp Parapet and Carrollton until October . Expedition to Pass Manchac and Ponchatoula September 13 – 15 ( detachment ) . Ponchatoula September 14 – 15 . Operations in District of La Fourche October 24 - November 6 . Occupation of Donaldsonville October 25 . Action at Georgia Landing , near Labadieville , October 27 . Thibodeauxville October 28 . Duty at Thibodeauxville until December 27 . Moved to Baton Rouge December 27 , and duty there until March 1863 . Operations against Port Hudson March 7 – 27 . Moved to Donaldsonville March 28 . Operations in western Louisiana April 9 - May 14 . Bayou Teche Campaign April 11 – 20 . Porter ' s and McWilliams ' Plantations at Indian Bend , April 13 . Irish Bend April 14 . Bayou Vermillion April 17 . Expedition to Alexandria and Simsport May 5 – 18 . Expedition from Barre ' s Landing toward Brashear City May 21 – 26 . Siege of Port Hudson May 26 - July 9 . Assaults on Port Hudson May 27 and June 14 . Brashear City June 21 ( detachment ) . Surrender of Port Hudson July 9 . Moved to Donaldsonville July 11 , thence to Thibodeauxville and duty there until March 1864 . Red River Campaign March 25 - May 22 . Monett ' s Bluff , Cane River Crossing April 28 . Construction of dam at Alexandria April 30 - May 10 . Retreat to Morganza May 13 – 20 . Mansura May 16 . Duty at Morganza until July 3 . Veterans on furlough July and August . Sheridan ' s Shenandoah Valley Campaign August to December . Battle of Opequan , Winchester , September 19 . Fisher ' s Hill September 22 . Battle of Cedar Creek October 19 . Duty at Kernstown and Winchester until January 1865 . Moved to Savannah , Ga . , January 5 – 22 , and duty there until March 8 . At Morehead City and New Bern , N . C . , until May . Duty at Savannah , Augusta , Athens , Gainesville , and District of Allatoona , Ga . , until April 1866 . Casualties . The regiment lost a total of 204 men during service ; 2 officers and 42 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 3 officers and 157 enlisted men died of disease .