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The 12th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 3 officers and 49 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 237 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1861
November 16 Organized at Portland and mustered in
November 24 Left State for Lowell, Mass.
December 30 To Boston
1862
January 2 Embarked on Steamer Constitution for Ship Island, Miss.
February 12 Arrived Ship Island. Attached to Butler’s Expeditionary Corps.
March Attached to 3rd Brigade, Dept. of the Gulf
May 4 Moved to New Orleans and duty at U.S. Mint
June 16-20 Expedition to Pass Manchac
June 17 Pass Manchac
September 13-18 Expedition to Ponchatoula (Companies C, D & F)
September 15 Pouchatoula
October 21 Moved to Camp Parapet
November 19 Moved to Baton Rouge, La. Attached to Grover’s Division, Baton Rouge, La., Dept. Gulf
1863
January Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. Gulf
February Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Corps, Dept. Gulf
March 7-27 Operations against Port Hudson
April 9-May 14 Moved to Donaldsonville. Operations in Western Louisiana
April 11-20 Teche Campaign
April 13 Porter’s and McWilliams’ Plantation at Indian Head
April 14 Irish Bend
April 18 Destruction of salt works at New Iberia
April 20-May 20 Advance to the Red River
May 21-24 Advance on Port Hudson
May 24-July 8 Siege of Port Hudson
May 27 Assault on Port Hudson
June 14 Second Assault on Port Hudson
June 20 Thibodeaux (Detachment)
July 9 Surrender of Port Hudson
July 13 Donaldsville
August 12 Moved to New Orleans, then to Ship island, Miss.
October At Camp Parapet
1864
January 3-7 Expedition to Madisonville (Companies B, F, , K)
January 7 Capture of Madisonville
March 11 Ordered to New Orleans
April to June 16 Veterans on furlough, Non-Veterans at Camp Parapet
May 27 Veterans returned from Portland to New Orleans
June 16 Regiment moved to Morganza, La.
July 3 Moved to Algiers
July 13-20 To Fort Monroe, Va.
July 21 To Bermuda Hundred, Va.
July 21-25 Duty in trenches.
July 27-29 Demonstration on north side of James River
July 27-28 Deep Bottom
July 31 Moved to Washington, D.C.
August 2 To Tennallytown, Md.
August 7-November 28 Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Attached to Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division, 19th corps, 2nd Division, 1st Brigade
September 3-4 Berryville
September 19
Third Battle of Winchester (Opequan)
September 22
Fisher’s Hill
October 19
Battle of Cedar Creek
Orcober 20 Duty at Cedar Creek
November 9 At Opequan
November 19 Non-Veterans left front. Veterans consolidated to a Battalion of four Companies.
December 7 Non-Veterans mustered out
1865
January Ordered to Savannah, Ga.and attached to District of Savannah, Ga., Dept. of the South
February – March Six new Companies organized for one year service and assigned as E, F, G, H, I, K.
March Attached to 1st Brigade. 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Army Ohio
1866
February – March Companies E, F, G, H, I & K mustered out
April 18 Regiment mustered out