3rd Maine Infantry

Muster In: June 4, 1861
Muster Out: June 28, 1864
Length of Service: Three Years
Militia Units:
Company A - Bath City Grays

Engagements

First Bull Run, Virginia - July 21, 1861
Bailey's Cross Roads, Virginia - August 28, 1861
Yorktown, Virginia - April 5 - May 4, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
Williamsburg, Virginia - May 4, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
Seven Pines, Virginia - May 31, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
White Oak Swamp, Virginia - June 30, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
Malvern Hill, Virginia - July 1, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
Second Bull Run, Virginia - August 29-30, 1862
Chantilly, Virginia - September 1, 1862 (Second Bull Run Campaign)
Fredericksburg, Virginia - December 13, 1862
Chancellorsville, Virginia - May 1-4, 1863
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - July 1-3, 1863
Wapping Heights, Virginia - July 21-23, 1863 (Bristoe Campaign)
Catlett's Station, Virginia - October 14, 1863 (Bristoe Campaign)
Kelly's Ford, Virginia - November 7, 1863 (Bristoe Campaign)
Orange Grove, Virginia - November 26, 1863 (Bristoe Campaign)
Mine run, Virginia - November 30, 1863
Wilderness, Virginia - May 5-7, 1864
Spottsylvania, Virginia - May 7-20, 1864
North Anna, Virginia - May 23-27, 1864
Totopotomy, Virginia - May 26-30, 1864
Cold Harbor, Virginia - May 31-June 12, 1864
Casualties:
1,586 Enrollment
134 Killed of Died of Wounds
140 Died of Disease
33 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 Third Maine Regiment

Bounty Receipts, Companies A, B, C, D - Box 150
Enlistment Papers, 1861 - Box 150
Recruits, 1862, 1863, 1864 - Box 150

Clothing List, August 6, 1862 - Box 151
Consolidated Month Report, duplicate, 1862 - Box 151
George H. Thompson, Ohio, discharge paper - Box 151
Muster In and Descriptive List, 1861 - Box 151
Re-enlistments, 1864 - Box 151
Return of the 3rd Reg't Inf., 1861 - Box 151

Company Book, 1863-1864
Hospital Returns, September 1863
Medical Examinations, Co. A, D, 1861
Post War Post Office Addresses
Quarter Master's Journal, 1863
Regimental Returns, 2nd and 3rd ME., 1861
Regimental Returns, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th ME, 1862
Regimental Returns, 3rd, 4th and 5th ME., 1863
Samuel B. Wing - Memoirs of Life and War (in Obits Box 11)
Newspaper clippings re: 3rd Maine reunions 1929-1940 (in Obits Box 12)
Manuacript biography of Benjamin H. Hall (2 pages) by Henry C. Hall in 1896 from Woburn, Mass.
Letters regarding a diary of William H. Sturtevant of Beaver City, Neb.
Letter from William Livermore regarding the loss of the 3rd Maine's Colors (1 page) in 1895

Copy of an 1895 Daily Kennebec Journal article "Four Augusta Boys" in the 3rd Maine
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