Of all the regiments in the army the First Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment sustained the greatest loss in battle. 23 officers and 400 enlisted men were killed and mortally wounded; 260 died to disease during the Civil War, a total of 683.
1862 |
August 21 |
Organized at Bangor as 18th Infantry and mustered in |
August 24 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. |
August 26 |
Duty in the Defences of Washington, building and garrisoning batteries and forts. Eight Companies at Fort Alexandria, Company E at Batteries Vermont and Mattox, Company K at Batteries Cameron and Parrott. |
1863 |
January 6 |
Designation changed to 1st Heavy Artillery |
February |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, Haskins' Division, 22nd Army Corps. Defences North of the Potomac |
1864 |
January |
Company L organized |
February |
Company M organized |
May 15 |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac and Moved to Belle Plains, Va. as a part of Tyler's Heavy Artillery Division. |
May 18 |
Rapidan Campaign |
May 24 |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps |
May 19 |
Harris' Farm, Fredericksburg Road
Lost 82 killed, 394 wounded, 5 missing; total 481 |
May 20-23 |
On line of North Anna |
May 23-26 |
North Anna |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey River |
May 23-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-5 |
Cold Harbor |
June 5-12 |
Barker's Mills |
June 16-19 |
Before Petersburg |
June 18 |
Hare's House, Assault on Petersburg
Sustained greatest loss of any one Regiment in any one action of the war: 635 killed and wounded out of 900 engaged. |
June 16 |
Siege of Petersburg |
June 22-23 |
Weldon Railroad |
June 24 - July 23 |
Picket duty at Deserted House |
July |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration on north side of James River |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom |
July 29 - August 12 |
Duty at Hare's House |
August 13-20 |
Demonstration on north side of James River |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains |
August 19 |
Near Fort Sedgwick |
September 30 -
October 2 |
Poplar Springs Church |
October 1 |
Yellow House |
October 2 |
Squirrel Level Road |
October 6-24 |
At Fort Sedgwick |
October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run |
December 7-12 |
Warren's Hicksford Raid |
1865 |
February 5-7 |
Hatcher's Run |
March 25 |
Armstrong House |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 29 |
South Side Railroad |
March 29-31 |
Boydton Road and White Oak Ridge |
April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
April 5 |
Jettersvtlle |
April 6 |
Amelia Springs and Sailor's Creek |
April 7 |
Farmville |
April 9 |
Appomattox C. H. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
May 9-16 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, Hardin's Division, 22nd Corps |
June 27 |
Garrison Forts in the Defences of Washington from Fort Washington to Fort Mahone |
September 11 |
Mustered out and ordered to Bangor, Me. |
September 20 |
Discharged |
