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The 1st Maine Infantry Battalion was organized in Augusta and Portland, Maine February through March 1865 from the 21st, 24th, 25th, and 26th companies of unassigned infantry. [ 1 ] The battalion was ordered to Summit Point, Virginia and attached to 2nd Brigade, Dwight's Division, Army of the Shenandoah to May 1865. 2nd Brigade, Dwight's ...
The 8th Maine Infantry was organized in Augusta, Maine and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on September 7, 1861. The regiment was attached to Viele's 1st Brigade, General Thomas West Sherman's South Carolina Expeditionary Corps, October 1861 to April 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Department of the South, to November 1862.
A Distant War Comes Home: Maine in the Civil War Era (1991) Excerpts; short popular essays; Miller, Richard F. ed. States at War, Volume 1: A Reference Guide for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the Civil War (2013) excerpt
Abraham Lincoln's first call for volunteers in April, 1861 required Maine to raise one regiment of infantry for three months of Federal service.This was done by reorganizing ten existing companies of the state militia, completed at Portland, Maine on 28 April 1861 and mustered into service on 3 May 1861, a total of 779 soldiers.
19th Maine was organized at Bath, Maine and mustered into Federal service for a three-year enlistment on August 25, 1862. The total loss of the 19th Maine in the two days of fighting [at Gettysburg] were 12 officers and 220 men, almost 53% of the 19th. The regiment took into battle on the second day of July 440 officers and men." [1]
The 15th Maine Infantry was organized in Augusta, Maine December 6–31, 1861 and mustered in January 23, 1862, for a three-year enlistment.. The regiment was attached to Butler's New Orleans Expeditionary Corps January to March 1862. 3rd Brigade, Department of the Gulf, to September 1862, District of West Florida, Department of the Gulf, to June 1863. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XIX Corps ...
The 2nd Maine Infantry Regiment (also known as the Second Maine Regiment, Second Maine Infantry, or The Bangor Regiment) was a Union Army unit during the American Civil War. It was mustered in Bangor, Maine , for two years' service on May 28, 1861, and mustered out in the same place on June 9, 1863.
Union private Daniel A. Bean of Brownfield, Maine, 11th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment by John Wilson (sculptor) Left Maine for Washington, D.C., November 13. Duty in the defenses of Washington, D. C., until March 1862. Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10–15. Moved to Newport News March 28. Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4.