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The 1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry Regiment mustered into federal service at Augusta on November 5, 1861, as a three-year volunteer cavalry regiment. [12] It was commanded by COL John Goddard from Cape Elizabeth. A Regular Army cavalry officer, LTC Thomas Hight, was the second-in-command.
During the Civil War, Smith was a member of the 1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. [3] He was commissioned a captain in November 1861 and took command of Company D. He served well and was promoted to major on February 16, 1863. Promoted again March 26 to lieutenant colonel, he participated in the Stoneman 1863 raid.
The result was the 1887 publication of History of the First Maine Cavalry 1861-1865. [14] [15] 1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry's monument, Gettysburg National Battlefield, 1898. In 1889, he wrote a poem and history sketch about the 1st Maine Cavalry to celebrate the placement of a monument to his former Civil War regiment on at the Gettysburg ...
Goddard, who died in 1927 at the age of 83 and served in the 1st Regiment of the Maine Cavalry, was buried in Portland's Evergreen Cemetery along with members of his prominent Maine family. But ...
Estes was born in Old Town, Maine on December 27, 1843. He joined the 1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry Regiment [3] as a first sergeant in October 1861, and was commissioned as first lieutenant in March 1862. [4] In May 1863 while serving on the staff of Maj. Gen. H. J. Kilpatrick, he was captured carrying a message to General Joseph Hooker.
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Aug. 18—LEWISTON — A free-ranging talk about Mainers in the Civil War at the Androscoggin Historical Society on Thursday touched on everything from a Confederate soldier's grave in Gray to the ...