United States Regiments & Batteries > Maine > 1st Maine Veteran Infantry
The 1st Maine Veteran Infantry Regiment lost 6 officers and 40 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 40 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1864
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August 21 | Organized at Charleston, Virginia, by consolidation of the Veterans of the 5th, 6th and 7th Regiments of Maine Infantry Regiment. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Shenandoah |
August 21-22 | Skirmishes near Charleston, Virginia. |
September 13 | Demonstration on Gilbert’s Ford, Opequart, |
September 19 |
Third Battle of Winchester (Opequan) |
September 22 |
Fisher’s Hill |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
October – December | Duty at Kernstown and vicinity |
December 9 | March to Washington, D.C. then to Petersburg, Va. |
December 12 |
Siege of Petersburg |
1865
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March 25-27 |
Fort Fisher, Petersburg |
April 2 |
Assault on and fall of Petersburg |
April 6 |
Sailor’s Creek |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army. |
April | March to Danville, Va. and provost duty there |
June | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
June 9 | Corps Review |
June 28 | The 1st Maine Veteran Infantry mustered out |