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5th Maine Infantry

Muster In: June 24, 1861
Muster Out: July 27, 1864
Length of Service: Three Years

Engagements

  • First Bull Run, VA - July 21, 1861
  • West Point, VA - May 7, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
  • Gaines Mill, VA - June 27-29, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
  • Goldings Farm, VA - June 27-28, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
  • Malvern Hill, VA - July 1, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
  • Cramptons Gap, MD -September 14, 1862 (Antietam Campaign)
  • Antietam. MD - September 17, 1862
  • Fredericksburg, VA - December 13, 1862
  • Chancellorsville, VA - May 1-4, 1863
  • Gettysburg, PA - July 1-3, 1863
  • Funkstown, MD - July 10, 1863
  • Rappahannock Station, VA - November 7, 1863 (Bristoe Campaign)
  • Locust Grove, VA - November 27, 1863 (Mine run Campaign)
  • Wilderness, VA - May 5-7, 1864
  • Spottsylvania, VA - May 7-20, 1864
  • North Anna, VA - May 23-27, 1864
  • Cold Harbor, VA - May 31-June 12, 1864

    Casualties

    107 Killed or Died of Wounds
    77 Died of Disease

    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 Fifth Maine Infantry

  • Enlistment papers - 1862-1863-1864 (Box 153)
  • Muster-In and Descriptive Rolls - 1861-1863-1864 (Box 153)
  • Recruits - 1862-1864 (Box 153)

  • Hospital Returns - September 1863
  • Medical Examinations - 1861
  • Post War Post Office Addresses
  • Regimental Returns - 4th, 5th - 1861
  • Regimental Returns - 3rd, 4th, 5th - 1862
  • Regimental Returns - 3rd, 4th, 5th - 1863
  • Handwritten autobiography from Lt. Aaron S. Daggett (Co. E) for the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, from Fort Missoula, Montana, July 13, 1896 (5 pages)
  • Newspaper clipping of the poem "The Corporal's Musket", a copy of which was found in the haversack of Col. William S. Heath after he fell at Gaines' Mill (1 page)
  • Handwritten partial history of the service of Capt. Frederic G. Sanborn (Co. F) sent in by Mrs. Sanborn, Concord, NH, October 20, 1895 (4 pages)
  • Letter from Mrs. Simeon W. Sanborn telling of the death of her husband, Lt. Simeon Sanborn (Co.I) written from Bethel, ME, October 19, 1895 (1 page)
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