United States Regiments & Batteries > Maine > 17th Maine Infantry Regiment
The 17th Maine Infantry Regiment lost 12 officers and 195 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 159 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
The regiment is honored by two monuments at Gettysburg.
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1862
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| August 18 | The 17th Maine Infantry Regiment was organized and mustered in at Camp King, Cape Elizabeth. |
| August 21 | Left Maine for Washington, D.C.; Attached to Defenses of Washington |
| August 23- October 7 |
Garrison duty in the Defenses of Washington; Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Corps, Army Potomac |
| October 8-12 | At Upton’s Hill, Virginia |
| October 12-28 | At Edwards Ferry |
| October 28- November 22 |
Advance to Warrenton, thence to Falmouth, Va. |
| December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
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1863
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| January 20-24 |
“Mud March” |
| April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
| May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
| June 13-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
| July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgText from the monuments:The Seventeenth Maine fought here in the Wheatfield 2 1/2 hours, and at this position from 4:10 to 5:45 p.m., July 2, 1863. On July 3, at the time of the enemy’s assault, it reinforced the centre and supported artillery. Loss 132. Killed or mortally wounded 3 officers, 37 men. Wounded, 5 officers, 87 men. 130 killed and wounded July 2, 1863. 357 engaged; Lt. Col. Chas. B. Merrill, commanding. Wheat-field July 2, 1863; Pickett’s Repulse, July 3, 1863. |
| July 5-24 | Pursuit of Lee |
| July 23 | Wapping Heights |
| October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
| October 14 |
Auburn and Bristoe |
| November 7-8 | Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
| November 7 |
Kelly’s Ford |
| November 26- December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
| November 27 | Payne’s Farm |
| November 28-30 |
Mine Run |
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1864
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| February 6-7 | Demonstration on the Rapidan |
| March | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps |
| May 3-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
| May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
| May 8 |
Laurel Hill |
| May 8-21 |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
| May 10 | Po River |
| May 12 |
“Bloody Angle,” Assault on the Salient |
| May 19 |
Harris Farm (Fredericksburg Road) |
| May 23-26 |
North Anna |
| May 26-28 | Line of the Pamunkey |
| May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
| June | Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps |
| June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
| June 16-19 |
First Assault on Petersburg |
| June 16 |
Petersburg Campaign |
| June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
| July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom, north of the James |
| July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
| August 13-20 | Demonstration north of the James |
| August 14-18 | Strawberry Plains |
| August 25 |
Ream’s Station |
| September 29-October 2 | Poplar Springs Church |
| October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run |
| December 7-11 |
Raid on Weldon Railroad |
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1865
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| February 5-7 |
Dabney’s Mills |
| March | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps |
| March 28- April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
| March 29 | South Side Railroad |
| March 30-31 | Boydton Road and White Oak Ridge |
| April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
| April 5 | Jettersville |
| April 6 |
Sailor’s CreekThe regiment was commanded by Major Charlie Mattocks. It charged the 21st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, capturing their battle flag and about 300 prisoners. |
| April 6-7 |
High Bridge |
| April 7 |
Farmville |
| April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army. |
| April 11-May 1 | At Burkesville |
| May 1-15 | March to Washington, D. C. |
| May 23 | Grand Review |
| June 4 | The 17th Maine Infantry Regiment mustered out at Bailey’s Cross Roads; Recruits were transferred to 1st Maine Heavy Artillery |
| June 10 | Discharged at Portland, Me. |