10th Maine Infantry Regiment and Battalion
The 10th Maine Infantry Regiment lost 8 officers and 74 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 53 enlisted men to disease. Total 136. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
Timeline of the 10th Maine Infantry Regiment
October 4, 1861 |
Organized at Portland and mustered in |
October 6 |
Left State for Baltimore, Md.; Attached to Dix's Division at Baltimore |
November 4 |
Railroad Brigade, Army Potomac; At Relay House |
November 27 |
At Baltimore |
February 27, 1862 |
Guard duty by detachments along Baltimore & Ohio Railroad between Martinsburg and Charleston, W. Va. |
March 28 |
Co. A at Opequan Bridge, Co. B at Martinsburg, Co. C at Van Obeiseville; Cos. D and F at Harper's Ferry; Co. E at Halitown, Cos. G and I at Charleston, Co. H at Duffield's; Co. K at Kearneysville |
April, 1862 |
1st Brigade, Williams' Division, Dept. of the Shenandoah |
May 9 |
Cos. D, E, F, G and I moved to Winchester |
May 24 |
Cos. A, B, C, H and K moved to Winchester |
May 15-June 17 |
Operations in Shenandoah Valley |
May 24 |
Middletown |
May 25 |
Winchester |
May 25-27 |
Retreat to Williamsport |
May 28 |
Reconnaissance toward Martinsburg |
June, 1862 |
1st Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of Virginia |
June 29-30 |
Reconnaissance to Luray C. H. |
August 9 |
Battle of Cedar Mountain |
August 16 -
September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia; Guarding trains during Bull Run Battles |
September |
1st Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam |
October 3 -
December 10 |
Duty at Berlin, Md. |
December 10-14 |
March to Fairfax Station and duty there |
January 19-23 |
March to Stafford C. H. and duty there |
April 27 |
Ordered to rear for muster out |
May 8, 1863 |
Old members mustered out |
Timeline of the 10th Maine Infantry Battalion
April 26 |
Three-year men formed into a Battalion of three Companies and assigned to duty at Headquarters 12th Army Corps |
April 27 - May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
June 13-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg Commanded at Gettysburg by Captain John D. Beardsley, it was assigned to provost guard duty and had no casualties among its 170 men. |
August 1 -
September 24 |
Along the Rapidan |
September 24 - October 2
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Moved to Nashville, Tenn. |
October 5 |
To Murfreesboro, Tenn. then to Shelbyville and Wartrace |
October 26-29 |
Reopening Tennessee River |
November 1, 1863 |
Transferred to 29th Maine Infantry |
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