Union Monuments - Connecticut

14th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The monument to the Fourteenth Connecticut Infantry Regiment (top and top center) is south of Gettysburg on Hancock Avenue just north of The Angle. It was erected in 1884 by the Survivors of the 14th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry.

Location: 39.81384 N, 77.23543 W; see map

Two markers are also at the site of the Bliss farm.

The regiment was commanded in the Battle of Gettysburg by Major Theodore G. Ellis. It brought 200 men to to the field, of whom 10 were killed, 52 wounded, and 4 were missing. It was part of 2nd Corps, 3rd Division, 2nd Brigade.

From around the bottom of the monument:

14, Conn.
2, Brig.
3, Div.,
2, A.C
Left Centre of Regt.

From the front tablet:

The 14th C.V. reached the
vicinity of Gettysburg at
evening July 1st, 1863, and held
this position July 2nd, 3rd and
4th. The regt. took part in the
repulse of Longstreet's grand
charge on the 3rd, capturing
in their immediate front more
than 200 prisoners and five
battle-flags. They also, on the
3rd, captured from the enemy's
sharp-shooters the Bliss build-
ings in their far front, and
held them until ordered to
burn them. Men in action 160,
killed and wounded 62."

From the back tablet:

The 14th Conn.Vol. Inf. left
Connecticut August 25, 1862;
was assigned to the
Army of the Potomac, Sept. 7, 1862
and mustered out May 31, 1865.
The Regiment was engaged in
34 great battles and severe skirmishes,
including
Antietam, Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg,
Wilderness, Spottsylvania,
Cold Harbor, Petersburg
and Appomattox."
Lost in killed and died in the service, 366;
in wounded and disabled many hundreds.
Original muster 1015; recruits 697,
final muster of original members,
resent and absent, 234, pro patria.
This monument
erected by the survivors,
July 3, 1884.

From the Bliss House marker:

Centre of
site of the
Bliss House,
captured and
burned by the
14 C.V. July 3
1863.

From the marker at the Bliss barn:

The 14. Regt. Connecticut Vols.
A.M. July 3, 1863
captured here from Confederate Sharp-
shooters the large barn of Wm. Bliss
and his dwelling house near and upon
retiring burned both buildings by order
of the Div. Commander.
Center of barn site.

The 14th Connecticut is also honored by a monument on the Antietam battlefield .

See more about the 14th Connecticut Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.