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2nd Maine Cavalry


Muster In: January 12, 1864

Muster Out: December 6, 1865

Length of Service: 23 Months

Engagements:

  • Cheneyville Cross Roads, LA - May 1864
  • Marksville, LA - May 15, 1864
  • Avoyelles Prarie, LA - May 15, 1864
  • Yellow Bayou, LA - May 18, 1864
  • Pine Barren Creek, LA - May 18, 1864

    Transferred to Fort Barancus - August 1864

  • Marianna, FL - September 23, 1864
  • Pollard, AL - December 13, 1864
  • Milton, FL - February 23, 1865
  • Mobile, AL - March 17 - April 12, 1865

    Casualties:
    Killed or Died of Wounds: 10
    Died of Disease: 334

    Civil War Records Common To All Regiments

  • Civil War Correspondence
  • Civil War Index for Soldiers and Sailors
  • Civil War Regimental Rolls
  • Civil War Obituaries and Misc. Articles
  • Civil War Photos - mostly officers
  • Post Civil War P.O. Address Books
  • General Law Pension
  • Cemetery Index
  • Graves Registration Cards

    Civil War Records Unique to the Second Maine Cavalry

  • Enlistment Papers, A - L 1863 (Box 42)

  • Enlistment Papers, M - Z 1863 (Box 43)
  • Muster and Descriptive Rolls, 1863 (Box 43)

  • List of the 1st and 2nd Cavalry regiments, November 1863
  • List of men in the 2nd Maine Cavalry mustered out on a single muster roll
  • Consolidated Morning Report, 1863-1865
  • Post Civil War Address Books
  • Clothing Books, all Companies 1864-1865 4 Volumes
  • Ass't Surgeon John R. Eaton's Papers
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