United States Regiments & Batteries > Maine > 11th Maine Infantry Regiment
The 11th Maine 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 | The 11th Maine Infantry Regiment mustered in for three years service at Augusta. |
| November 13 | Left Maine 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, Virginia. |
| March 28 | Moved to Newport News and attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th 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, North Carolina. Attached to Naglee’s Brigade, Department of North Carolina |
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1863 |
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| January 28-31 | To Port Royal, South Carolina. 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, Florida, 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 | The regiment moved to Morris Island and siege operations against Charleston. Attached to 1st Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps, Dept. South |
| 1864 | |
| April | Ordered to Gloucester Point, Virginia. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 10th 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 Corps, Army of the James |
| 1865 | |
| March 25 | Colonel Plaisted was promoted to brigadier general. |
| 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 | The 11th Maine Infantry Regiment mustered out at City Point, Virginia under the command of Colonel Hill |