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20th Maine Infantry

Muster In: August 29, 1862
Muster Out: July 16, 1865
Length of Service: Three Years

Engagements

  • Antietam, MD - September 17, 1862*

  • Shepherdstown Ford, VA - September 19 - 20, 1862 (Antietam Campaign)

  • Fredericksburg, VA - December 13, 1862

  • Chancellorsville, VA - May 1 - 4, 1863

  • Middleburg, VA - June 17, 1863 (Gettysburg Campaign)

  • Gettysburg, PA - July 1 - 3, 1863 (Gettysburg Campaign)

  • Sharpsburg Pike, MD - (Gettysburg Campaign)

  • Rappahannock Station, VA - November 7, 1863 (Bristoe Campaign)

  • Mine Run, VA - November 26 - December 1, 1863

  • Wilderness, VA - May 5 - 7, 1864

  • Spotsylvania, VA - May 7 - 20, 1864

  • North Anna, VA - May 23 - 27, 1864

  • Totopotomy, VA - May 26, - 30, 1864

  • Bethesda Church, VA - May 30 - June 1, 1864

  • Cold Harbor, VA - May 31 - June 12, 1864

  • Petersburg, VA Seige - June 1864

  • Jerusalem Plank Road, VA - June 22 - 23, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)

  • Weldon Railroad, VA - August 18 - 21, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)

  • Peebles Farm, VA - September 30 - October 2, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)

  • Hatchers Run, VA - December 8 - 9, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)

  • Quaker Road, VA - March 29, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)

  • Gravelly Run, VA - March 29, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)

  • Five Forks, VA - March 30 - April 1, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)

  • Appomattox, VA - March 29 - April 9, 1865

    Casualties

    1,621 Enrollment
    147 killed or died of wounds
    381 wounded
    146 died of disease
    15 in Confederate Prisons

    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 Twentieth Maine Infantry

  • Recruits, 1864-65 (Box 57)

  • Rejected Men, 1862 (Box 57)

  • Twentieth Regiment list, 1862 (Box 57)

  • Re-enlistment in field, 1863 (Box 57)

  • Muster In and Descriptive List, 1864-65 (Box 57)

  • Enlistment Papers, 1862 (Box 58)

  • Clothing Books - 6 Volumes, 1862-1865

  • Consolidated Morning Report, 1862-1865 (1 Volume)

  • Hospital Returns, August 1863

  • Medical Examinataions 1861-1862

  • Post War Post Office Addresses

  • Regimental Returns - 19th, 20th, 21th - 1862

  • Regimental Returns - 20th, 29th, 30th - 1863

  • Regimental Returns - 17th, 19th, 20th - 1864

  • Single Muster Out Rolls, List of men

  • Civil War Diary - Nathan S. Clark, Co. H. 1862-1865

  • Civil War Letters - Hezekiah Long, Co. I. September 10, 1862 to February 21, 1865. Copies (122 pages)

  • Record of Lt. Edward Simonton, Co. G, donated by him 1895 (3 pages)

  • Copies of Ellis Spear's wartime diaries, 1863, 1864, 1865

  • Albert E. Fernald papers (notebook)

  • Calendar of Correspondence

Page updated December 15, 2005