United States Regiments & Batteries > Maine
The 11th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 7 officers and 115 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 233 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1861
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| September-October | Organized at Augusta under Colonel John C. Caldwell |
| November 12 | Mustered in |
| November 13 | Left State for Washington, D.C. |
| November | Duty in the defenses of Washington, D. C. attached to Davis’ Provisional Brigade, Army of the Potomac |
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1862
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| January | Attached to 1st Brigade, Casey’s Division, Army Potomac |
| March 10-15 | Advance on Manassas, Va. |
| March 28 | Moved to Newport News and attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
| April 5-May 4 | Siege of Yorktown |
| April 28 | Colonel Caldwell was promoted to brigadier general |
| May 12 | Harris M. Plaisted was promoted to colonel |
| May 5 | Battle of Williamsburg |
| May 20-23 | Operations about Bottom’s Bridge |
| May 31-June 1 | Battle of Fair Oaks, Seven Pines |
| June | Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Corps |
| June 13-26 | Guard Bottom’s Bridge |
| June 25-July 1 | Seven days before Richmond |
| June 27 | Destruction of railroad bridge over Chickahominy |
| June 28-29 | Bottom’s Bridge |
| June 30 | White Oak Swamp |
| July 1 | Malvern Hill |
| July-August | At Harrison’s Landing |
| August 16-22 | Moved to Yorktown |
| December 11-15 | Expedition to Matthews County |
| December 26 | Began movement to Morehead City, N. C. Attached to Naglee’s Brigade, Dept. North Carolina |
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1863 |
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| January 28-31 | To Port Royal, S.C. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Corps |
| February 10 | To St. Helena Island. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Corps, Port Royal, S.C., Dept. South |
| April 4-12 | Expedition against Charleston |
| April | At Beaufort, S.C. and attached to District of Beaufort, S.C., 10th Corps, Dept. South |
| June 4-6 | Moved to Fernandina, Fla. and attached to Fernandina, Fla., Dept. of the South |
| July to October | A detachment acted as Artillery on Morris Island, S.C., during siege of Fort Wagner, and operations against Charleston |
| October 6 | Regimen moved to Morris Island and siege operations against Charleston. Attached to 1st Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps, Dept. South |
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1864 |
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| April | Ordered to Gloucester Point, Va. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina |
| May 4-June 15 | Butler’s operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Corps |
| May 5 | Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred |
| May 6-7 | Port Walthal |
| May 9 | Ware Bottom Church |
| May 9-10 | Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church |
| May 12-16 | Operations against Fort Darling |
| May 14-16 | Drury’s Bluff |
| May 17-June 20 | Bermuda Hundred |
| June 2 and 14 | Action at Bermuda Hundred |
| June 16-17 | Port Walthal, Bermuda Front |
| June 16 | Siege operations begin against Petersburg and Richmond |
| June 20 and 25 | Deep Bottom |
| July 21 | Grover House, Deep Bottom |
| July 27-28 | New Market Heights, Deep Bottom |
| August 14-18 | Strawberry Plains |
| August 27- September 26 |
In trenches before Petersburg |
| September 28-29 | New Market Heights |
| September 29-30 | Chaffin’s Farm |
| October 7 | Darbytown and New Market Roads |
| October 13 | Darbytown Road |
| October 27-28 | Fair Oaks |
| October 29 | Chaffin’s and Johnson’s Farms |
| November 7 | Non-Veterans left front for muster out |
| November | Duty on north side of James River before Richmond |
| November 5-17 | Detached for duty at New York City during election |
| December | Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps, Army of the James |
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1865 |
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| March 25 | Colonel Plaisted was discharged |
| March 27-29 | Moved to Hatcher’s Run |
| March 28- April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
| April 2 | Assault and capture of Forts Gregg and Baldwin and fall of Petersburg |
| April 3-9 | Pursuit of Lee to Appomattox |
| April 5 | Jonathan A. Hill was promoted to colonel |
| April 6 | Rice’s Station |
| April 7 | High Bridge |
| April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army. |
| April 24 | Duty at Richmond, Va. |
| July | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Corps, Arny of the James |
| August | Attached to Dept. of Virginia |
| November 24 | At Fredericksburg |
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1866
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| January 19 | To City Point |
| February | Mustered out at City Point, Va. under Colonel Hill |