Irish Bend

Connecticut State Library Record Group 13
Report of the 13th CT Battle of Irish Bend LA Apr 14 1863
Return of Casualties 13th CT Apr 14 1863
Report of the 25th CT Battle of Irish Bend LA Apr 14 1863
Return of Casualties 25th CT Apr 14 1863

Newspaper Articles
1863 4 27 Hartford Evening Press The Success in Louisiana
1863 4 27 Hartford Times The Connecticut Wounded in the Battles in Louisiana
1863 4 28 Hartford Evening Press The Banks Expedition (William Simonds)
1863 4 29 Hartford Evening Press The Battles in Louisiana 
1863 5 1 Hartford Evening Press The Battles in Louisiana
1863 5 5 Hartford Evening Press From Banks’ Expedition
1888 4 14 Hartford Courant Battle of Irish Bend (Twenty Fifth Anniversary)

13th Connecticut
Sprague, Homer History of the Thirteenth Infantry (1867)
– on Google Books; Battle of Irish Bend pp. 109-121

George Clary, Connecticut Historical Society MS 90729
1863 5 10 George Clary to sister Eliza  (transcription)
1863 5 19 George Clary to sister Eliza Simmesport LA (transcription)
1863 5 20 George Clary to brother Timothy near Simmesport LA (transcription)

John Coddington Kinney
LSU Mss. 2273 inventory

25th Connecticut
The Twenty-Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion
(1913: Press of the Rockville Journal) (note: large file 18 MB)

Memorial of Lt. Daniel Perkins Dewey (1864)

Thomas McManus
The Battle of Irish Bend (1891)
Through the campaign grounds of Louisiana (1907)

William Winship fragment of diary Apr 1863 Battle of Irish Bend (transcription)
Connecticut Historical Society MS 65847

Winship, William L fragment of diary Irish Bend Apr 1863

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lt Dewey’s gravesite

Grave monument Lt. Dewey, Zion Hill Cemetery, Hartford

Grave monument Lt. Dewey, Zion Hill Cemetery, Hartford

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lt. Oliver’s gravesite

Lt. Wm. Oliver grave site, Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford

Lt. Wm. Oliver grave site, Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
As a token of Respect and to perpetuate the Memory of a Brave and Good Man.
This monument erected by his comrades of the 25th Reg. C. V. and by Pioneer Hose Co.

 

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