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Seventeenth Maine Infantry.
De Trobriand's Brigade —
Birney's Division--Third 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 | 19 |
| Company | A | 2 | 22 | 24 | | 12 | 12 | 145 |
| | B | 1 | 18 | 19 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 132 |
| | C | | 19 | 19 | | 23 | 23 | 156 |
| | D | | 20 | 20 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 129 |
| | E | 1 | 18 | 19 | 1 | 18 | 19 | 128 |
| | F | | 16 | 16 | | 12 | 12 | 126 |
| | G | 3 | 21 | 24 | | 14 | 14 | 125 |
| | H | 3 | 23 | 26 | | 19 | 19 | 135 |
| | I | | 21 | 21 | | 19 | 19 | 129 |
| | K | 2 | 17 | 19 | | 19 | 19 | 147 |
| Totals | 12 | 195 | 207 | 4 | 159 | 163 | 1,371 |
207 killed == 15 per cent.
Total loss in killed and wounded, 759; Died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 31.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 4 | Petersburg, Va. (assault) | 22 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 14 | Petersburg Trenches, Va. | 20 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 40 | Jerusalem Road, Va. | 3 |
| Wapping Heights, Va. | 1 | Boydton Road, Va. | 1 |
| Mine Run, Va. | 12 | Hatcher's Run, Va., March, 25, 1865 | 2 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 54 | Sailor's Creek, Va. | 6 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 16 | Farmville, Va. | 2 |
| North Anna, Va. | 7 | Picket, Va., Oct. 2, 1864 | 1 |
| Cold Harbor, Va. | 1 | Picket, Va., Oct. 17, 1864 | 1 |
Present, also, at
Auburn, Va.;
Po River;
Totopotomoy; Strawberry Plains;
Deep Bottom;
Appomattox.
notes.--Recruited in the counties of
York,
Cumberland,
Oxford, and
Androscoggin.
It arrived at
Washington August 23, 1862, where it was engaged in drill and garrison duty until October, when it crossed into
Virginia and joined
Berry's (3d) Brigade,
Birney's (1st) Division, Third Corps.
The regiment made a creditable record at
Fredericksburg, and at Chancellorville it sustained a loss of 10 killed, 65 wounded and 38 missing. At
Gettysburg,
Lt.-Col. C. B. Merrill commanding, it was engaged in
Sickles's fight on the second day, losing 18 killed, 112 wounded, and 3 missing. In March, 1864,
Birney's Division was transferred to the Second Corps, the regiment being placed in
General Alex. Hays's Brigade of that division--Second Brigade, Third Division, Second Army Corps.
Led by
Colonel West, it crossed the
Rapidan with 507 men, and fought under
Grant at the
battle of the Wilderness, where its casualties amounted to 22 killed, 155 wounded, and 15 missing; total, 192.
In June it was transferred to the First Brigade, with which it took part in the storming of
Petersburg, June 16-18, 1864.
Its losses in those bloody and disastrou; assaults were 13 killed, 66 wounded, and 5 missing. In June, 129 men were received by a transfer from the Third Maine, the term of that regiment having expired; even with this accession, the ranks showed but little over 200 muskets in line.
The Seventeenth sustained the heaviest loss in battle of any infantry regiment from
Maine.
It was mustered out on June 4, 1865.
