31st Maine Infantry Regiment

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The 31st Maine Infantry Regiment lost 18 officers and 161 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 176 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1864
March and April Organized at Augusta, Maine.
April 18 The regiment left Maine for Washington, D.C.
May 3-June 15

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac
May 5-7

Battle of the Wilderness

The regiment suffered heavy losses.
May 8-21

Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

The regiment lost 12 men killed, 75 wounded and 108 missing.
May 23-26

North Anna River
May 26-28 On line of the Pamunkey
May 28-31
Totopotomoy Creek
June 1-12

Cold Harbor
June 1-3 Bethesda Church
June 16-19

First Assault on Petersburg
June 16, 1864

Siege of Petersburg
July 30

Battle of the Crater

The regiment was the first into the crater and lost heavily in the disasterous attack. Colonel Daniel White was captured. He would remain a prisoner until shortly before the end of the War.
August 18-21
Weldon R. R.
September 29-
October 2

Poplar Springs Church
October The 4th and 6th Companies of Maine Unassigned Infantry were added to the regiment as Companies L and M.
October 27 Assigned as the garrison of Fort Fisher.
Late November Assigned as garrison of Fort Davis.
December 12 The regiment consolidated with the 32nd Maine Infantry Regiment, adding 15 officers and 470 enlisted men.
1865
March 25,

Battle of Fort Steadman
April 1

Fort Davis
April 2

Assault on Fort Mahone, Fall of Petersburg

The regiment provided three companies for the storming party for the initial attack on the Confederate fort. The regiment lost heavily in the assault.
April 3-20 Occupation of Petersburg
April 20-29 Marched to City Point and the moved by water to Alexandria.
May 23 Grand Review
July 15 The 31st Maine Infantry Regiment mustered out.