1st Maine Heavy Artillery

Muster In: August 21, 1862 (18th Maine Regiment)
Reorganized December, 1862 as First Maine Heavy Artillery
Muster Out: September 11, 1865
Length of Service: Three Years - Army of the Potomac

Engagements

Defense of Washington - Sept. 1862 to May 1864
Fredericksburg Pike, VA - May 19, 1864
Milford Station - May 20, 1864
North Anna, VA - May 23, 1864
Totopotomy, VA - May 26, 1864
Cold Harbor, VA - May 31, 1864
Jerusalem Plank Road, VA - June 22 - 23, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
Deep Bottom, VA - August 18, 1864
Boydton Plank Road, VA - October 27, 1864
Weldon Railroad, VA - December 7, 1864
Hatchers Run, VA - February 5, 1865
Sailors Creek, VA - April 6, 1865
Farmville, VA - April 7, 1865
Appomattox, VA - April 8, 1865

Casualties
19.2 percent casualties
2,202 Enrollment
23 Officers killed or died of wounds
860 wounded
260 died of disease
21 in Confederate Prisons
(Before Petersburg, VA:
950 engages in battle
115 killed
489 wounded - 95 mortally
28 missing
66.5 percent casualties)

Civil War Records Common To All Regiments

Civil War Correspondence
Civil War Index for Soldiers and Sailors
Civil War Muster Rolls
Civil War Obituaries
Civil War Photos (Mostly Officers)
Cemetery Index
General Law Pension
Graves Registration Cards

Civil War Records Unique to the First Maine Heavy Artillery

Recruits, 1st Heavy 1863-64 (Box 60)

Muster In and Descriptive Rolls (Box 174)

Clothing Lists - 1863 (Box 174)

List of men in the 1st Maine Heavy musterd out on a single muster roll
Post War Address Book
Clothing Books - 8 volumes - 1862-1865
Returns of the Regiments including 1st Maine Heavy Artillery - 1863

Returns of the Regiments including 1st Maine Heavy Artillery - 1864

Returns of the Regiments including 1st Maine Heavy Artillery - 1865

Typescript and manuscript history of Company G and service of Lt. Emery S. Wardwell, 21 pages

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