These prints are plates from an 1873 book, 1st edition
Lot of 3 1873 Civil War Heroes of Connecticut book plates page engraving prints
Thick paper 8.5" X 6"
1. Admiral Joseph Lanman
engraved by geo. e. perine , NY
2. Brevet lieutenant-colonel charles m. coit
engraved by geo. e. perine , NY
3. Brevet brigadier general james b. coit
engraved by john sartain, philadelphia
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Joseph Lanman commanded the Atlantic Squadron in the closing days of the Civil War and the post war period. He was appointed Midshipman 1 January 1825 and retired 18 July 1872. He died 13 March 1874. Engraving by George W. Perine, New York.
Birth
18 Jul 1811
Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Death
13 Mar 1874 (aged 62)
Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Burial
Yantic Cemetery
Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, US
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Brevet lieutenant-colonel charles m. coit
Birth
19 Feb 1793
Preston, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Death
26 Oct 1855 (aged 62)
Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Burial
Yantic Cemetery
Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Charles Morgan Coit worked as a banker and lived with his family in
Norwich, Connecticut. On 18 September 1861, at 23 years old, he enlisted
in the Connecticut 8th Volunteer Infantry. During his time in the Union
Army, he was promoted from 1st Lieutenant to Captain, to Major and
finally to Lieutenant Colonel. Charles Morgan Coit's father, Charles
Coit, had also served in the army and had been a Colonel at the time of
his death in 1855. Charles M. Coit's mother, Sarah Perkins Coit; sister,
Ellen Grosvenor Coit; and brother, George Douglass Coit; continued to
live in Norwich and maintain the family's rental properties while
Charles was away. Charles was wounded in the battle at Fair Oaks,
Virginia in 1865. Though the wound was severe, he lived and briefly
returned to service before being mustered out of the army on 27 May
1865. He later married Mary H. Hillard and had two children. He drowned
rescuing his son during a sailing trip in New London harbor on 3 July
1878.
Husband of Lucretia Tyler
correspondance and info to be found at findagrave online and gilderlehrman online.
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***See AOTW online for full article with photo***
Federal (USV)
Lieutenant
James Bolles Coit
(1836 - 1894)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
Educated at the Philips Academy, Andover, MA, admitted to practice law in Ohio, and went to Nebraska in 1858 and was active in the beginnings of the Republican Party there. He was in Norwich, CT in 1861 and raised a company of the 2nd Connecticut Infantry and enlisted as Private. He saw action at Bull Run in June and was appointed Sergeant Major of the regiment. On 20 August 1862 he mustered as First Lieutenant, Company K, 14th Connecticut Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Promoted to Captain on 1 May 1863. Wounded in action 3 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA. Appointed Major on 1 October 1863.
After the War
He was honored by brevet in March 1865 for "gallant and meritorious service" at Antietam (to Lieutenant Colonel), Gettysburg (Colonel) and the Wilderness (Brigadier General). He opened a law practice in Washington DC in 1865, and was active in politics, becoming a Democrat in response to Reconstruction policies. He was head of the Pension Bureau in the Cleveland Administration (1885-89). He returned to make his home in Norwich sometime before his death in 1894.
References & notes
Basic information from Page1. His photograph from a CDV posted online by reenactors of Company G, 14th Connecticut. Biographical details from his New York Times obituary. His widow Annie Willoughby Fanning (m. 1869) was granted a pension in February 1903.
Birth
09/29/1836; Norwich, CT
Death
12/08/1894; Norwich, CT; burial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
see thompsonhistorical online for full article:
Second Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry
The Second Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was one of Connecticut’s 90-day
regiments. Many throughout the country, to include many of its leaders, felt the war would be a
short-term endeavor. Few could imagine at that time the horrors that lay ahead. Many of the 90-
day soldiers re-enlisted into three-year units when discharged.
General James B. Coit, originally a private in Company B, Second Regiment Connecticut
Volunteer Infantry, provided a history of the unit. His work can be found at the Connecticut
Military Department website: It reads:
The Second Regiment of Connecticut three months Infantry
Volunteers, Col. Alfred H. Terry, was raised under President Lincoln’s first
call for troops, and its numerical strength was 798 men.
Company A, “Buckingham Rifles,” Captain Chester, was intended for
assignment to the First Regiment, having been recruited at the Governor’s
home by Private James B. Coit, the first volunteer in Norwich, on the
receipt of the telegram announcing the assault on Fort Sumter.
The “Mansfield Guards” of Middletown, Captain Dickinson, the
New Haven “Grays,” Captain Osborn, and the National Guard of
Birmingham, Captain Russell, were old, well drilled, and popular militia
organizations; the other companies were wholly enlisted under the
President’s call. The Second Regiment was fortunate in its officers, most of
them being trained soldiers of the State Militia, Colonel Terry having
served as colonel, Lieut.-Colonel Young as brigadier-general, Major
Colburn as major, Adjutant Russell as adjutant, and many of its captains
and lieutenants as line officers.
Eight companies were armed with Sharp’s rifles and two with
Springfield muskets. The regiment was mustered into the United States
service at Brewster’s Park, New Haven, May 7, 1861.
It embarked May 10th on the steamer Cahawba for Washington,
D.C., reaching its destination May 14th, and camping at Meridian Hill,
where it remained and made the most of its school for war until ordered
into Virginia.
On the night of the 16th of June it crossed “Long Bridge,” aiming to
camp at Roach’s Mills, about nine miles from Washington, but after
reaching its destination, on the 17th, it was ordered to the support of
Colonel McCook’s Ohio regiment (Schenck’s Brigade), which had that day
been attacked at Vienna Station. The enemy having retreated before its
arrival, the Second regiment continued its march to Taylor’s Tavern on Oak
Hill, near Falls Church, some five miles from Roach’s Mills, forming here,
with the other Connecticut three months’ men, a camp of instruction, where,
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adding picket and other outpost duty to its former routine work, it remained
till the advance on Bull Run.
At this camp it was brigaded with the First and Third Connecticut,
the Eighth New York, the Second Maine, all infantry; and with Tompkin’s
New York Cavalry, and Berrian’s New York Battery, Brig.-Gen. Daniel
Tyler commanding.
Subsequently, General Tyler was assigned to a division of troops,
and with Gen. E. D. Keyes in command of the brigade the Second
Connecticut took part in the battle of Bull Run, July 21st, acquitting itself
with great credit, maintaining its regimental formations throughout the
action, and demonstrating by its coolness under fire the excellence of its
material and the thoroughness of its discipline. Its losses were one killed
and fifteen taken prisoners and missing.
In the latter part of the afternoon, under instructions, it fell back in
good order on Centreville Heights, and later continued its march to the
camp at Oak Hill, where it arrived on the following morning. For parts of
two days the regiment was here employed in striking its tents and the tents
of several brigades of troops left standing and deserted by former
occupants. Large quantities of arms, ammunition, camp equipage, and a
miscellaneous variety of stores and other property, to the value of many
thousands of dollars, here awaited the favorable response of the
Quartermaster-General’s Department for transportation and the action of
the Connecticut troops for safety. Telegrams to headquarters brought the
necessary trains, and the men of the Connecticut regiments loaded,
guarded, and escorted them over the Potomac.
At the expiration of its term of service the Second regiment returned
to New Haven, where, on the 7th day of August, 1861, its men were mustered
out, some to close their military career, but most of them to make use of
their experience, training, and discipline in the three years’ regiments of the
State, wherein a large number became valuable officers, not a few won
spurs, and others stars for gallant and meritorious service.1
Second Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry - Rifle Company B
Name Rank No. Date Enlisted Remarks
Benson, Albert Private 1 May 7, 1861 Honorably discharged August 7, 1861
Miller, William, E. Private 2 May 7, 1861 Honorably discharged August 7, 1861
Spencer, Ezra Private 3 May 7, 1861 Honorably discharged August 7, 1861