Union Rosters of the Civil War: Connecticut, Volume II of II, 15th Infantry - 31st USCT Infantry

At the outbreak of the Civil War, the United States Army consisted of no more than 16,000 soldiers, a number obviously insufficient to handle a conflict, which soon proved to be of a scale unprecedented on the American continent. Thus volunteers and, from 1863 onward, conscripts had to shoulder the brunt of the fighting and droves of men proved more than willing to answer their country's call. In the course of the Civil War, more than 2,000,000 soldiers served in the hundreds of regiments and batteries of the Union Army and more than 360,000 of them lost their lives. The book series "Union Rosters of the Civil War" is a comprehensive, unabridged collection of official records meticulously listing, state by state and unit by unit, the men who made up the Union armies. These rosters offer a glimpse into the inner workings of the individual states' regiments and they are an indispensable tool for anyone interested in the fates of the individuals fighting the bloodiest war in American history.