1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment

1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment Flag of Maine.svg August 21, 1862 – September 20, 1865 United States 1865 23px Union Artillery Regiment American Civil War Battle of Spotsylvania Court House Siege of Petersburg Second Battle of Petersburg September 20, 1865 Maine U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865 17th Maine Infantry Regiment 19th Maine Infantry Regiment Maine U.S. Volunteer Artillery Units 1861-1865 N/A 1st Maine Light Artillery Battery The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment was a regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Dyer 1908 1216 Federal Publishing Company 1908 63 It suffered more casualties in an ill-fated charge during the Second Battle of Petersburg than any Union regiment lost in a single day of combat throughout the war. It was also the Union regiment with the highest number of officers killed (23)Cartmell 2001 81 The regiment was mustered in Bangor, Maine, in 1862 as the 18th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment and consisted mostly of men and officers from the Penobscot River Valley (the area around Bangor and points east).Shaw House 1903 82 It was commanded by Col. Daniel Chaplin, a Bangor merchant. Charles Hamlin, son of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, was originally an officer in this regiment, but was promoted to a position on the staff of Maj. Gen. Hiram G. Berry before it saw significant action.Whitman True 1865 458 The regiment's name was changed in 1863 to the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, and it served in the defenses of Washington, D.C. before being reassigned to the Army of the Potomac during the Overland Campaign in the spring of 1864. At the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, the regiment took its first heavy casualties—6 officers and 76 men killed, and another 6 officers and 388 men wounded. At the Second Battle of Petersburg, however, an ill-advised charge across an open field toward Confederate breastworks on June 18, 1864, ordered by Chaplin, resulted in the greatest single loss of life in a Union regiment to occur in the war, with 7 officers and 108 men killed, and another 25 officers and 464 men wounded. These casualties constituted 67% of the strength of the 900-man force. Chaplin survived the action but was later killed by a sharpshooter.Whitman True 1865 458-474 The regiment was commanded by Russell Benjamin Shepherd for the remainder of the war. All in all, the 1st Maine sustained one of the highest casualty rates in the war, with 423 killed, and another 260 died of disease.Dyer 1908 1216 Federal Publishing Company 1908 63 A monument to the 1st Maine stands on the former battlefield at Petersburg.NPS, 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Monument 2009 See also American Civil War List of Maine Civil War units Maine in the American Civil War References Citations 40em Sources 50em Cartmell Donald The Civil War Book of Lists https://archive.org/details/civilwarbookofli00cart/page/81/mode/1up New Page Books Franklin Lakes, NJ 2001 81 978-1-56414-504-8 1148221818 00054891 1st en pdf October 25, 2024 registration Dyer Frederick H. Frederick H. Dyer A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015026937642?urlappend=%3Bseq=1228%3Bownerid=13510798899657173-1254 Dyer Publishing Company Des Moines, IA 1908 1216 2027/mdp.39015026937642?urlappend=%3Bseq=1386%3Bownerid=13510798899657173-1254 1403309 09005239 en pdf October 25, 2024 Federal Publishing Company Military Affairs and Regimental Histories of New York, Maryland, West Virginia, And Ohio Federal Publishing Company The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861–65 – Records of the Regiments in the Union army – Cyclopedia of battles – Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers. I 1908 Madison, WI https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x001126604?urlappend=%3Bseq=66%3Bownerid=27021597769157256-72 2027/uva.x001126604?urlappend=%3Bseq=62%3Bownerid=27021597769157256-72 1086145633 PDF 63 Shaw Horace H. House Charles J. The First Maine Heavy Artillery, 1862-1865: A History of Its Part and Place in the War for the Union, with an Outline of Causes of War and Its Results to Our Country 1903 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t1tf01d2r?urlappend=%3Bseq=106 2027/loc.ark:/13960/t1tf01d2r?urlappend=%3Bseq=106 First Maine Heavy ArtilleryCommittee on History Portland, ME 1262555 06022964 1st en pdf 82 December 27, 2024 amp Whitman William E. S. True Charles Henry Maine in the War for the Union: A History of the Part Borne by Maine Troops in the Suppression of the American Rebellion https://hdl.handle.net/2027/yale.39002005165825?urlappend=%3Bseq=472 2027/yale.39002005165825?urlappend=%3Bseq=472 Nelson Dingley jr. & Co. Lewiston, ME 1865 709537027 02013155 1st en pdf 458–474 October 25, 2024 amp http://www.nps.gov/pete/planyourvisit/upload/D2%20Site%209%20First%20Maine%20Heavy%20Artillery%20Monument%20New.pdf 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Monument March 6, 2015 U.S. National Park Service nps.gov 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090511202615/http://www.nps.gov/pete/planyourvisit/upload/D2%20Site%209%20First%20Maine%20Heavy%20Artillery%20Monument%20New.pdf May 11, 2009 NPS, 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Monument 2009 External links 01262555.3237.emory.edu The First Maine Heavy Artillery, 1861-1865: a history of its part and place in the war for the union, with an outline of causes of war and its results to our country (1903) The First Maine Heavy Artillery Retrieved June 9, 2008. 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