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First Maine Heavy Artiliery.
Mott's Brigade,
Birney's Division, Second Corps.
companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
Field and Staff | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 22 |
Company | A | | 20 | 20 | | 29 | 29 | 195 |
| B | 3 | 46 | 49 | | 19 | 19 | 198 |
| C | 2 | 39 | 41 | | 30 | 30 | 189 |
| D | 1 | 31 | 32 | | 19 | 19 | 185 |
| E | 2 | 39 | 41 | | 20 | 20 | 176 |
| F | 1 | 36 | 37 | | 18 | 18 | 183 |
| G | 3 | 31 | 34 | | 23 | 23 | 185 |
| H | 2 | 28 | 30 | | 33 | 33 | 202 |
| I | 2 | 39 | 41 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 172 |
| K | 2 | 28 | 30 | | 16 | 16 | 172 |
| L | 4 | 40 | 44 | | 20 | 20 | 161 |
| M | | 23 | 23 | | 17 | 17 | 162 |
Totals | 23 | 400 | 423 | 2 | 258 | 260 | 2,202 |
423 killed == 19.2 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 1,283.
Died of disease in Confederate prisons (previously included), 21.
battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
Fredericksburg Pike, Va. | 147 | Deep Bottom, Va. | 5 |
North Anna, Va. | 3 | Weldon Railroad | 5 |
Totopotomoy, Va. | 3 | Boydton Road, Va. | 10 |
Petersburg Assault, June 16th, 17th | 12 | Hatcher's Run, March 25, 1865 | 6 |
Petersburg Assault, June 18th | 210 | Sailor's Creek, Va. | 5 |
Jerusalem Road, Va. | 5 | Picket Line | 2 |
Siege of Petersburg | 7 | Place Unknown | 3 |
Present, also, at Cold Harbor; Vaughn Road;
Farmville;
Appomattox.
notes.--Of the 2,047 regiments in the
Union Army, the First Maine Heavy Artillery sustained the greatest loss in battle.
Not only was the number killed the largest, but the percentage of killed was exceeded in only one instance.
Again, its loss at
Petersburg, June 18th, was the greatest of any one regiment in any one action, during the war. It made the charge that day with about 900 muskets, losing 632
1 in killed and wounded.
Only a month previous, the regiment had suffered a terrible loss in its gallant fight on the
Fredericksburg Pike, near
Spotsylvania, May 19, 1864, where it lost 82 killed and 394 wounded; total, 476.
Among the killed were six officers, and in the battle of June 18th, just referred to, thirteen officers were killed or mortally wounded, besides twelve others who were hit. This regiment was raised, principally, in the
Penobscot Valley, and was organized August 21, 1862, as the Eighteenth Maine Infantry.
Major Daniel Chaplin, of the Second Maine, was appointed
Colonel.
He fell, mortally wounded, August 18, 1864, at Strawberry Plains, Va. (
Deep Bottom). The regiment left the
State on August 24, 1862, and was changed to heavy artillery in December.
It remained in the defences of
Washington until May, 1864, when it joined
Grant's Army at
Spotsylvania.
All its losses occurred within a period of ten months. During the spring campaign of 1865, it was in
De Trobriand's Brigade of
Mott's Division, Second Corps.