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1st Connecticut Regiment Volunteer Heavy Artillery

Organized in militia service on February 5, 1861. Transferred to Confederate service on March 13, 1861. Companies B, C, D, E, F, H, and K surrendered at the fall of Forts Jackson and St. Philip on April 26, 1862. These seven companies were exchanged in the fall of 1862. Regiment surrendered at Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi on July 4, 1863. Paroled at Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi in July 1863. Declared exchanged in early 1864. Six companies surrrendered by Lieutenant General Richard Taylor, commanding the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, at Citronelle, Alabama on May 4, 1865.

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Pvt James T. Murphy

1839 – 11 Jan 1904

Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a...

New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA

Plot info: Civil War Section

Pvt George M Roff

28 Dec 1812 – 21 Dec 1891

Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA

Plot info: Section I, Lot 55

Robert Ogden Tyler

22 Dec 1831 – 1 Dec 1874

Civil War Union Brigadier General. He graduated...

Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA

Plot info: Section 2, Lot 54

George Abiel Washburn

23 Apr 1827 – 20 May 1891

Civil War Brevet Brigadier General. Commissioned...

Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA

Plot info: Section H / Lot 59

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