19th Maine Infantry

Muster In: August 25, 1862
Muster Out: May 31, 1865
Length of Service: Three Years

Engagements

Fredericksburg, VA - December 13, 1862
Chancellorsville, VA - May 1 - 4, 1863
Gettysburg, PA - July 1 - 3, 1863 (Gettysburg Campaign)
Bristoe Station, VA - October 14, 1863
Mine Run, VA - November 26 - December 1, 1863
Wilderness, VA - May 5 - 7, 1864
Spotsylvania, VA - May 7 - 20, 1864
Po River, VA - May 9 - 12, 1864 (Spotsylvania Campaign)
North Anna, VA - May 23 - 27, 1864
Totopotomy, VA - May 26, - 30, 1864
Cold Harbor, VA - May 31 - June 12, 1864
Petersburg, VA Seige - June 1864
Deep Bottom, VA - August 14, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
Reams Station, VA - August 25, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
Boydton Road, VA - October 23, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
Hatchers Run, VA - December 8 - 9, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
High Bridge, VA - April 6, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)
Farmville, VA - April 7, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)
Appomattox, VA - April 9, 1865

Casualties
1,441 Enrollment
192 killed or died of wounds
13.3% casualties
501 wounded
184 died of disease
47 in Confederate Prisons
5th Company of Unassigned Maine Infantry incorporated, November 1864
In conjunction with the 15th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, the 1st Regiment Minnesota Infantry and the 82nd Regiment New York Infantry, it formed Harrow's 1st Brigade, Gibbons's 2nd Division, 2nd Corps. This Brigade had the greated percentage of casualties of any Brigade at Gettysburg, where its loss was 61 percent of those engaged.

Civil War Records Common To All Regiments

Civil War Correspondence
Civil War Index for Soldiers and Sailors
Civil War Muster Rolls
Civil War Obituaries
Civil War Photos (Mostly Officers)
Cemetery Index
General Law Pension
Graves Registration Cards

Civil War Records Unique to the Ninteenth Maine Infantry

Recruits, 1862, 63, 64 (Box 56)

Muster In and Descriptive Rolls, 1863, 64, 65 (Box 164)
Rejected Men, 1862 (Box 164)

Clothing Books - 5 Volumes, 1862-1865
Consolidated Morning Report, 1862, 63, 64
Hospital Returns, September 1863
Post War Post Office Addresses
Regimental Returns - 19th, 20th, 21th - 1862
Regimental Returns - 16th, 17th, 19th - 1863
Regimental Returns - 17th, 19th, 20th - 1864
Single Muster Out Rolls, List of men
Civil War Diary - Capt. Charles E. Nash, January to August, 1864
Civil War Diary and Letters from Willis M. Porter, Co. K, to Esther Friend, 1862-1865
Letter informing of the death of Capt. Charles S. Larrabee from H.A. Duncan, 1895
Account of the 19th Maine at Gettysburg by Gen. F.E. Heath, donated by Gen. Selden Connor, 1895 (6 pages)

Material donated by Gen. Selden Connon, 1895: Muster out roll of Seldon Connor as Lt. Col. 7th Maine Inf.; Extract from Spec. Orders #162; Extract from Spec. Orders #47; Letter from Gen. A.s. Webb to Gen. Connor referring to the Battle of the Wilderness; "How Gen. Connor Got His Crutches"
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