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- Title
"The Most Unfortunate Regiment": The 16th Connecticut and the Siege of Plymouth, NC.
- Authors
GORDON, LESLEY J.
- Abstract
The article discusses the U.S. Civil War regiment the 16th Regiment Infantry Volunteers of Connecticut, focusing on their participation in the Siege of Plymouth, North Carolina in 1864. It comments on several members of the regiment, including George Robbins, Brigadier General Henry W. Wessell, and Sergeant Major Robert H. Kellogg. The author also considers the Confederate assault on the regiment and examines soldiers' treatment as prisoners of war at Andersonville prison in Andersonville, Georgia.
- Subjects
PLYMOUTH (N.C.); NORTH Carolina; CONNECTICUT; UNITED States; REGIMENTAL histories of the American Civil War, 1861-1865; CONNECTICUT state history; NORTH Carolina state history; AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners &; prisons; ANDERSONVILLE Prison; WESSELL, Henry W.; KELLOGG, Robert H.; ROBBINS, George; AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865
- Publication
Connecticut History, 2011, Vol 50, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
0884-7177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/44370067