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George P. (George Perkins) Bissell
1820–1891
A Union colonel, Hartford banker, and later historian of his regiment, he turned firsthand Civil War service into a vivid record of the 25th Connecticut Volunteers. His surviving work offers both military detail and the perspective of someone who helped lead the men he wrote about.
1 Audiobook
The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion : history, reminiscences, description of battle of Irish Bend, carrying of pay roll, roster
by George P. (George Perkins) Bissell, Samuel K. (Samuel Kimball) Ellis, Henry Hill Goodell, Thomas McManus
About the author
Born in 1820 and remembered as George P. Bissell, he is most closely associated with Connecticut and with the Union Army during the Civil War. He served as colonel of the 25th Connecticut Infantry, a nine-month regiment organized at Hartford in November 1862, and later became known for preserving its story in print.
Bissell's best-known book is The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, a regimental history credited to him along with fellow veterans Samuel K. Ellis, Thomas McManus, and Henry Hill Goodell. The book combines campaign history, reminiscences, battle accounts, and roster material, making it useful not just as a memoir but as a record of a specific Connecticut unit and its service in Louisiana.
Other surviving references describe him as a banker in Hartford as well as a Civil War officer. Taken together, the record that remains suggests a practical public man who moved between military service, business life, and historical remembrance, leaving behind a book that helps keep the experience of his regiment accessible to later readers.