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Cold Harbor • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies

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The monument to the 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery Regiment is at the last pulloff on the Cold Harbor Battlefield Auto Tour. It is next to the ‘A Bloody Baptism of Fire‘ wayside marker, which tells more of the regiment’s story.

The front of the monument tells the story of the regiment’s attack on June 1 inscribed around the raised Greek cross that is the symbol of the Sixth Corps. The rear of the monument has the crossed cannon symbol of the artillery.

Text from the front of the monument:

2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery

Late on the afternoon of June 1, 1864, Col. Elisha Strong Kellogg and his 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery attacked Confederate entenchments to the west along with other Federal troops from the Sixth and Eighteenth Corps. Kellogg advanced his 1500 men across this ground in three battalions with weapons at port arms.

The combined Union attacks resulted in the capture of approximately 300 prisoners. Maj. Gen. Robert F. Hoke’s Confederate division halted their further progress with a withering fire delivered from the left flank. Kellogg was killed at the head of the first battalion in front of the abatis and breastworks held by Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Clingman’s brigade.

The remaining men of the 2nd Connecticut regrouped under Col. Emory Upton, and assisted in the capture of the Confederate line at sunset. However, more than 330 of its men fell killed and wounded in these attacks.

May this unit that began the say raw and inexperienced nevermore be known as a “band box” regiment…

Connecticut remembers her fallen sons

Text from the rear of the monument:

2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery
Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright – Sixth Corps
Brig. Gen. David A. Russell – First Division
Col. Emory Upton – Second Brigade

The top of the monument has a bronze tablet listing the names of every member of the regiment who was killed or mortally wounded in the battle:

2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery

Killed or Mortally Wounded at Cold Harbor, Va., June 1-12, 1864
Col. Elisha S. Kellogg, Commanding

Company A
Cpt. Lumans Wadhams 1st Sgt. Joseph E. Parks Cpls. Charles Adams Jr. Alber A. Jones Benjamin Meeker Apollos C. Morse George W. Potter Pvts. William Barton John Benedict	Pvts. Almon B. Bradley James Bradley Frederick W. Brashing Andrew J. Brooker George Everett Stephen Fallen Oliver Hitchcock John Iffland Truman Mallery	Pvts. Willard Parmalee Patrick Ryan George Savage Robert Scull Lyman J. Smith, Jr. Amos H. Stillson Homer F. Tilford Robert Watt Ransom E. Wood
Company B
Sgt. John McGraugh Cpls. William Dunn Walter Sparks Myron A. Sterry Henry Voelker Monroe Whiteman Pvts. Samuel Benedict Robert Bragg Francis Burger	Pvts. James Caul John W. Coons John Handle Chester A. Johnson David Lacy Ezra B. Morris Adam Ostrander Elias P. Scot	Pvts. Wilson Scoville Charles H. Segur George A. Skiff Franklin B. Stevens John B. Stohl Henry Tanner Henry W. Wiesing Amos Wooden
Company C
Sgt. David J. Thorpe Cpl. Erastus Cleaveland Pvt. Christian Bjornsen	Pvts. Ezra B. Bouton Lucius B. Palmer	Pvts/ George Pierce John H. Ure
Company D
Cpl. Edgar Castle Pvts. George L. Beach Pomeroy Becraft	Pvts. Philo Fenn Thomas Mann Hiram Mattoo	Pvts. Henry W. Miller John Murphy, Jr. Walter Stone
Company E
2nd Lt. Calvin B. Hatch QM Sgt. James A. Green Cpls. James R. Baldwin Frederick W. Daniels Willare Hart	Cpls. Alonzo J. Hull Ruel H. Perkins Henry A. Rexford Pvts. Sherman A. Apley Sylvester Barrett	Martin Blake Bernard Carbery Alfred Comins Lewis Downs Jared P. Evarts
Company E (cont.)
Pvts. Myron Ferris Birdsey Gibbs Stephen S. Green Patrick Kaine William Kelly Henry C. Kent	Pvts. Bowden D. Knapp Elizur Maltbie Walter Martin James Mooney John Scully	Pvts. James Simpson Charles H. Stanley George A. Tatro John M. Teeter John J. Toole
Drummer Frederick D. Painter
Company F
Sgt. Samuel E. Gibbs	Pvt. George A. Andrus	Pvt. John E. Hall
Company G
QM Sgt. Joseph Payne	Pvt. Timothy Leonard	Pvt. Horace C. Stickmund
Company H
Pvts. Theodore A. Barnes Charles W. Jackson	Pvts. Jerome Johnson Patrick Lynch	Pvt. Henry C. Straight
Company I
Pvts. Isaac Briggs Almod P. Galpin	Pvt. Friend F. Kane	Pvt. Curtiss Wheeler
Company K
QM Sgt. Charles H. Russell Sgt. George H. McBurney Cpl. David D. Lake Pvts. Franklin Andrus Isaac Baldwin Henry Bristol Joseph E. Camp Henry Colby	Pvts. Owen Cromney Peter Gallagher Edward Griffin Edmund Hickey Andrew Jackson Patrick Kennedy William Leach	Pvts. John Munson Asahel N. Perkins Charles Reed Robert Southergill John Warner Jacob Wentworth George Wood
Company L
Pvt. John Martin	Pvt. Frederick Slade
Company M Pvt. Samuel S. Osborn

Location of the monument

The monument is at the last pulloff on the Cold Harbor Battlefield Auto Tour. It is on the west side of Anderson-Wright Drive (which is one way southbound at this point) 1.1 miles from the Visitor Center and about 600 feet north of Cold Harbor Road (Virginia Route 156).