William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington

Nineteenth Maine Infantry.

192 killed == 13.3 per cent.

Total loss in killed and wounded, 693; Died of disease in Confederate prisons (previously included), 47.

Present, also, at Charlestown, W. Va.; First Fredericksburg; Second Fredericksburg; Po River; Strawberry Plains ; Sailor's Creek; Farmville; Appomattox.

notes.--Recruited in the counties of Knox, Waldo, Kennebec, and Sagadahoc. The field officers had already served with honorable distinction in other Maine regiments. It arrived at Washington August 29, 1862, having been recruited, organized, and equipped within four weeks, a characteristic common to most of the regiments raised under the second call for troops. It was assigned to Gvorman's (1st) Brigade, Howard's (2d) Division, Second Corps, with which command it was under fire for the first time, in a reconnoissance at Charlestown, W. Va., October 16, 1862; and, again, in the battle of Fredericksburg, where several of the men were wounded. Under command of Colonel Heath, the regiment was conspicuously engaged at Gettysburg, where it faced a feu d'enfer that cost it 29 killed, 166 wounded, and 4 missing; a total of 199, out of 440 present, all told. During Grant's opening campaign the brigade was commanded by General Alex. S. Webb, of Gettysburg fame. The regiment entered this campaign with 22 officers and 468 men; losing at the Wilderness 22 killed, 130 wounded, and 6 missing. The recruits left in the field by the Fourth Maine were transferred to the Nineteenth in June, 1864; there were 277 of them, nominally, but only 57 of them actually joined.