4th Maine Infantry

Muster In: June 15, 1861
Muster Out: July 19, 1864
Length of Service: Three Years
Militia Units
Company A - Belfast Artillery
Company F - Brooks Light Infantry
Company K - Belfast City Grays

Engagements

First Bull Run, VA - July 21, 1861
Yorktown, VA - April 5 - May 4, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
Williamsburg, VA - May 4, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
Seven Pines, VA - May 31, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
Gaines Mill, VA - June 27-29, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
White Oak Swamp, VA - June 30, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
Malvern Hill, VA - July 1, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
Second Bull Run, VA - August 29-30, 1862
Chantilly, VA - September 1, 1862 (Second Bull Run Campaign)
Fredericksburg, VA - December 13, 1862
Chancellorsville, VA - May 1-4, 1863
Gettysburg, PA - July 1-3, 1863
Wapping Heights, VA - July 21-23, 1863 (Bristoe Campaign)
Kelly's Ford, VA - November 7, 1863 (Bristoe Campaign)
Mine Run, VA - November 26-December 1, 1863
Wilderness, VA - May 5-7, 1864
Spottsylvania, VA - May 7-20, 1864
Po River, VA - May 11, 1864
North Anna, VA - May 23-27, 1864
Totopotomy, VA - May 26-30, 1864
Cold Harbor, VA - May 31-June 12, 1864

Casualties
1,440 Enrollment
170 Killed or Died of Wounds
443 Woudned
137 Died of Disease
40 in Confederate Prisons

Civil War Records Common To All Regiments

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

Civil War Records Unique to the Fourth Maine Infantry

Final Records of enlisted men transferred to the 38th New York Volunteers (Box 152)
Muster In and Descriptive Rolls - 1861, 1863, 1864 (Box 152)
Payroll - Non-Com staff and band - 1861 (Box 152)
Enlistment Roll Recruits 4th - forwarded with the 8th - 1861 (Box 152)
Enlistment Roll of certain recruits for 4th - forwarded with 7th - 1861 (Box 152)
Enlistment of Recruits 1862-1863 (Box 152)
Enlistment for Recruits early 1862 and did not receive town bounties and not on quota books. (Box 152)
Recruits - 1863-1864 (Box 152)

Clothing Book - 1862-1863
Consolidated Morning Report - 1861-1862
Hospital Returns - September 1863
Post War Post Office Addresses
Regimental Returns - 1861
Xerox copy of Regimental History compiled by Elijah Walker and printed in the Rockland Tribune, April 25, 1893
Extracts for the diary of Surgeon Abial Libby - 1861-1862 sent from Richmond, ME December 20, 1894 (31 pages)
Handwritten manuscript of Lt. N.A. Robbins' service (Co. H), sent from Washington, D.C., December 23, 1895 (4 pages)
Newspaper articles regarding the life of General Berry.

Letter from Joseph B. Wilson, Co. K, June 15, 1862, on detached service with Prof. Lowes Balloon Corps. (Gift)

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