'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 followed, the regiment participated in minor skirmishes before surrendering en masse in North Carolina in 1864. Most of its members spent months in southern prison camps, including.

Camp Williams : "The best class of volunteers" -- Antietam : "soldiering with a vengeance" -- Fredericksburg and winter camp : "Sick of the war" -- Newport News and Suffolk : "Regeneration" -- Portsmouth : "A perfect village" -- Plymouth : "The rebs' took us all" -- Andersonville, Florence, and Charleston : "Oh horrors of horrors!" -- Roanoke, Camp Parole, and New Bern : "Another day gone and one day nearer home" -- Postwar : "They were heroes" -- Conclusion : "Only remembered by what I have done."