The Civil War in the East

1st Maine Veteran Infantry Regiment

The regiment lost 6 officers and 40 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 40 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1864

August 21

Organized at Charleston, Va., by consolidation of the Veterans of the 5th, 6th and 7th Regiments of Maine Volunteer Infantry. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Shenandoah

August 21-22

Skirmishes near Charleston, Va.

September 13

Demonstration on Gilbert's Ford, Opequart,

September 19

Battle of Opequan, Winchester

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

March 25-27

Fort Fisher, Petersburg

April 2

Assault on and fall of Petersburg

April 6

Sailor's Creek

April 9

Appomattox C, H. Surrender 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

Mustered out