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6th Maine Infantry


Muster In: July 15, 1861
Muster Out: August 15, 1864
Length of Service: Three Years

Engagements

  • Yorktown, VA - April 5 - May 4, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
  • Williamsburg, VA - May 4, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
  • Savage Station, VA - June 29, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
  • White Oak Swamp, VA - June 30, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
  • Cramptons Gap, MD -September 14, 1862 (Antietam Campaign)
  • Antietam. MD - September 17, 1862
  • Fredericksburg, VA - December 13, 1862
  • 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
  • Cold Harbor, VA - May 31-June 12, 1864

    Casualties

    1213 Enrollment
    153 Killed or Died of Wounds
    366 Wounded
    102 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 Sixth Maine Infantry

  • Vouchers, commissioned and non commissioned staff, band and hospital rolls - 1861-1862-1863 (Box 154)

  • Absent Men - 1862 (Box 155)
  • Enlistment Papers - 1862 (Box 155)
  • Muster-In and Descriptive Rolls - 1861-1862-1863-1864 (Box 155)
  • Recruits - 1863-1864 (Box 155)

  • Hospital Returns - September 1863
  • Medical Examinations - 1861
  • Post War Post Office Addresses
  • Regimental Returns -6th, 7th - 1861
  • Regimental Returns -6th, 7th, 8th 9th - 1862
  • Regimental Returns - 6th, 7th, 8th - 1863
  • Diary of Frederic Morang (Co.A) copy - 1864-1865


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    Updated August 31, 2004