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Military Units from Connecticut

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The Connecticut Militia In 1739 the town militia in Connecticut were grouped into numbered regiments and brigades to make it easier to coordinate their response to threats to the state.. Immediately after the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord in 1775 April eight State Regiments were drawn from the Connecticut militia as this state's contribution to the Continental army that besieged the British garrison in Boston. The chart below gives the numbers for the organization for each town at the end of 1774 based on a more extensive discussion by Todd L. Gerlander (Connecticut Society SAR). Reorganization of 1774: In Dec 1775 these State Regiments were reorganized into eight State Regiments of Foot. These helped force the British to abandon Boston in 1776 March. They then marched west to participate in the defense of the New York city area. This defense failed, but the British were finally contained south of White Plains NY. Continental Regiments fromed in 1777: In 1777 the Continental Congress adopted these eight regiments as Continental Regiments (full-time soldiers paid by the Continental Congress) and called the Connecticut Line. Principal Reference: The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service during the War of the Revolution (Adjutant-General, Hartford, 1889). The organization of towns into regiments and brigades is described on page 380. Page images are available to subscribers of Ancestry.com For a bibliography of CT in the Revolution see U.S. Amy. Historical Resources Branch.

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