United States Regiments & Batteries > Maine
The 9th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 10 officers and 172 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 236 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861
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Organized at Augusta | |
September 22 | Mustered in |
September 24 | Left State for Washington, D.C. |
September 26- October 8 |
Camp at Bladensburg, Defenses of Washington |
October 8 | Moved to Annapolis, Md. Attached to Wright’s 3rd Brigade, Sherman’s South Carolina Expeditionary Corps |
October 21- November 7 |
Expedition to Port Royal, S.C. |
November 7 | Capture of Forts Walker and Beauregard, Port Royal Harbor |
November 8 | Hilton Head |
1862
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January | Duty at Hilton Head |
January 29- March 1 |
Expedition to Warsaw Sound |
February 25-March 5 | Expedition to Florida, assigned to Fernandina, Fla., Dept. of the South |
March 5 | Occupation of Fernandina, Fla. |
April 10 | Near Fernandina (Company I) |
1863 |
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January | Moved to Hilton Head, S.C. assiagned to District of Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Corps, Dept. South |
June | At St. Helena Island, S.C. |
July 4 | Moved to Folly Island, S.C. and assigned to 2nd Brigade, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
July 10 | Attack on Morris Island. Assigned to 2nd Brigade. Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
July 11 and 18 | Assaults on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, under the command of Colonel Emery |
July 11- September 7 |
Siege operations against Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, and Fort Sumter and Charleston assigned to 1st Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps
The regiment lost 189 casualties during the siege. |
September 7 | Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg |
September – January |
Occupation of Black Island |
1864
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February and March | 416 Veterans on furlough. Non-Veterans duty on Morris Island |
April | Non-Veterans moved to Gloucester Point, Va. Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
April 28 | Veterans rejoin |
May 4-27 | Butler’s operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond assigned to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Corps |
May 5 | Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred, Va. |
May 6-7 | Port Walthal Junction. Chester Station |
May 9 | Arrowfield Church |
May 12-16 | Operations against Fort Darling |
May 14-16 | Drury’s Bluff |
May 16-27 |
Bermuda HundredThe regiment lost 9 killed, 39 wounded and 4 missing in the fighting on May 20th |
May 27-June 1 | Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor |
June 1-12 |
Cold HarborThe regiment lost 12 killed, 55 wounded and 5 missing. |
June 15-19 | Before Petersburg |
June 16 | Siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps |
June 30 |
Affair on the Petersburg picket lineThe regiment lost 7 killed, 34 wounded and 5 missing out of 102 engaged. |
July 30 | Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
August 13-26 | Demonstration north of James River |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains, Deep BottomThe regiment lost 5 killed, 21 wounded and 29 missing |
August 24-25 | Bermuda Hundred |
September | In trenches before Petersburg |
September 21 | Non-Veterans left front |
September 27 | Non-Veterans mustered out |
September 28-29 | New Market Heights |
September 29-30 |
Chaffin’s FarmLieutenant Colonel Grey was killed leading the 201 men of the regiment. |
October 1 | Charles City Cross Roads |
October 27-28 | Fair Oaks |
November – February | Duty on north side of James |
December | Assigned to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 24th Army Corps |
1865
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February | Rejoined Brigade at Fort Fisher, N. C. |
February 11-12 | Cape Fear Entrenchments |
February 18-20 | Fort Anderson |
February 22 | Capture of Wilmington |
March 6-21 | Advance on Goldsboro. Assigned to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps |
March 21 | Occupation of Goldsboro |
April 10-13 | Advance on Raleigh |
April 14 | Occupation of Raleigh |
April 26 |
Bennett’s HouseSurrender of Johnson and his army. |
May – July | Duty in North Carolina |
July 13 | Mustered out. |