Over fifty thousand Connecticut soldiers served in the Union army
during the Civil War, yet their stories are nearly forgotten today.
Among the regiments that served, at least forty sets of brothers
perished from battlefield wounds or disease. Little known is the 16th
Connecticut chaplain who, as prisoner of war, boldly disregarded a Rebel
commander's order forbidding him to pray aloud for President Lincoln.
Then there is the story of the 7th Connecticut private who murdered a
fellow soldier in the heat of battle and believed the man's ghost
returned to torment him. Seven soldiers from Connecticut tragically
drowned two weeks after the war officially ended when their ship
collided with another vessel on the Potomac. Join author John Banks as
he shines a light on many of these forgotten Connecticut Yankees.