1st Connecticut Voluntary Infantry

1st Connecticut Voluntary Infantry (1898-1898) - Organized and mustered into the service of the United States at Niantic, Meriden, and Danbury, Conn., May 17 to July 14, with 42 officers and 798 enlisted men.


 * Assignments:
 * Assigned to Second Brigade, Third Division, Second Army Corps, August 2


 * Movements:
 * Companies distributed at Plum Island, New York; Fort Preble, Me.; Great Gull Island, New York; Fort Constitution, N.H.; and Fort Knox, Me.
 * Arrived at Camp Alger, Va., July 19
 * Left Camp Alger September 7; arrived Niantic September 8

Mustered out of the service of the United States at Hartford and New Britain, Conn., October 31, 1898, with 45 officers and 1,230 enlisted men. Casualties while in service: Officers-none. Enlisted men- died of disease, etc., 18; deserted, 3.

See Also:
 * Spanish American War
 * Spanish American War Regiments
 * Spanish American War Camps