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Sixteenth Maine Infantry.
Paul's Brigade —
Robinson's Division--First 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 | 2 | | | | 13 |
| Company | A | 1 | 16 | 17 | 1 | 16 | 17 | 183 |
| | B | 2 | 12 | 14 | | 20 | 20 | 180 |
| | C | | 28 | 28 | | 31 | 31 | 202 |
| | D | 2 | 17 | 19 | 1 | 25 | 26 | 177 |
| | E | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 29 | 29 | 205 |
| | F | | 12 | 12 | | 25 | 25 | 169 |
| | G | | 25 | 25 | | 27 | 27 | 211 |
| | H | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 29 | 29 | 194 |
| | I | | 12 | 12 | | 35 | 35 | 188 |
| | K | 1 | 20 | 21 | | 20 | 20 | 185 |
| Totals | 9 | 172 | 181 | 2 | 257 | 259 | 1,907 |
Total of killed and wounded, 759; Died of disease in Confederate prisons, 76.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 176 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 14 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 27 | Weldon Railroad, Va. | 10 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 3 | Hatcher's Run, Va. | 11 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 25 | Gravelly Run, Va. | 2 |
| North Anna, Va. | 2 | Five Forks, Va. | 2 |
| Bethesda Church, Va. | 3 | Skirmish Line, Va., June 21, 1864 | 1 |
| Cold Harbor, Va. | 3 | Skirmish Line, Va., Oct. 8, 1864 | 1 |
| Picket, Va., June 6, 1864 | 1 | | |
Present, also, at
Chancellorsville;
Mine Run;
Totopotomoy;
Appomattox.
notes.--Organized August 14, 1862, with
Captain C. W. Tilden, of the Second Maine, as its
Colonel, who commanded it during its entire service.
Arriving at
Washington on August 21, 1862, it was ordered immediately on active duty in
Maryland.
The fatigue and exposure of a campaign without the customary preparatory service cost the regiment many lives, and sent large numbers to the hospital.
It was assigned to
Root's (1st) Brigade,
Gibbon's (2d) Division, First Corps, and marched to
Fredericksburg with that command.
This was its first battle; but its ranks had become so reduced by the sickness, common among raw troops in active service, that only 427 were present in that action, of which it lost 27 killed, 170 wounded, and 34 missing; of the latter none returned.
Another severe loss was sustained at
Gettysburg.
Of the 248 officers and men engaged in that battle, the casualties amounted to 9 killed, 59 wounded, and 164 captured. At the close of the fight, 2 officers and 15 men alone remained;
Colonel Tilden was taken prisoner with his men. Many of the wounded died and nearly all the amputations proved fatal.
In March, 1864, the division was transferred to the Fifth Corps; in June the regiment was transferred to
Crawford's (3d) Division, and to
Baxter's (2d) Brigade of the same corps.
It fought in all the battles of the Fifth Corps in 1864-5, its hardest fighting occurring at
Spotsylvania, where
Major Leavitt fell, mortally wounded.
Another severe fight took place at
Hatcher's Run (Dabney's Mills) February 6, 1865, in which the regiment lost 3 killed, 60 wounded, and 11 missing.
