28th Maine Infantry

Muster In: October 18, 1862
Muster Out: August 31, 1863
Length of Service: Nine Months

Engagements

Port Hudson, LA - May 26 - July 9, 1863
Donaldsonville, LA - June 28, 1863
Casualties
11 killed or died of wounds
143 died of disease

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 Twenty-Eighth Maine Infantry

Post War Post Office Addresses
Regimental Returns - 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th - 1862
History of Co. G, including action at Donaldsonville, La. and sketch of the fort, written by Capt. Augustine Thompson, June 1, 1896 Lowell, MA. (13 pages)
Newspaper article "A Story of the Unpleasantness: The 28th Maine at Donaldsonville" 1884.
Account of service on the lower Missippi by Lt. Charles H. Witham, Co. B, written July 31, 1896, San Fransisco, CA (9 pages)
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last updated October 30, 1997