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The 20th Maine Infantry Regiment was a volunteer regiment of the United States Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), most famous for its defense of Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1–3, 1863.
17th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 18th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 19th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 21st Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 22nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 23rd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 24th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 25th Maine Volunteer ...
The future General Joshua L. Chamberlain and the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment played a key role at the Battle of Gettysburg, and the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment lost more men in a single charge during the siege of Petersburg than any Union regiment in the war.
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 ...
0–9. 1st Maine Sharpshooters Battalion; 1st Maine Light Artillery Battery; 1st Maine Cavalry Regiment; 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment; 1st Maine Infantry Regiment
Morrill was raised in Williamsburg, Maine. In 1861 the age of 20, he enlisted as a sergeant in Company A, 6th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment. A year later he was commissioned as an officer in Company B, 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was promoted several times, ultimately to lieutenant colonel. He mustered out on June 4, 1865. [1]
Ellis Spear (October 15, 1834 – April 3, 1917) was an officer in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War.On April 10, 1866, the United States Senate confirmed President Andrew Johnson's February 24 nomination of Spear for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general to rank from April 9, 1865.
20th Maine Infantry, Army of the Potomac Thomas Davee Chamberlain (April 29, 1841 – August 12, 1896) was the Lieutenant Colonel of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War , the brother of Union general Joshua L. Chamberlain , the Colonel of the 20th Maine Infantry.