A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut's Civil War - Hardcoverby Lesley J. Gordon (Author) A Broken Regiment recounts the tragic history of one of the Civil War's most ill fated Union military units. Organized in the late summer of 1862, the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was unprepared for battle a month later, when it entered the fight at Antietam. The results were catastrophic: nearly a quarter of the men were killed or wounded, and Connecticut's 16th panicked and fled the field. In the years that