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7th Maine Infantry

Muster In: August 21, 1861
Muster Out: September 5, 1864
Length of Service: Three Years

Engagements

  • Yorktown, VA - April 5 - May 4, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
  • Williamsburg, VA - May 4, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
  • Mechanicsville, VA - June 26, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
  • Gaines Mill, VA - June 27-28, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
  • White Oak Swamp, VA - June 30, 1862 (Peninsular Campaign)
  • Crampton's Gap, MD - September 14, 1862 (Antietam Campaign)
  • South Mountain, MD - September 14, 1862 (Antietam Campaign)
  • Antietam, MD - September 17, 1862
  • Fredericksburg, VA - December 13, 1862
  • Brandy Station, VA - June 9, 1863 (Gettysburg Campaign)
  • Gettysburg, PA - July 1-3, 1863
  • 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
  • Fort Stevens, Washington, D.C. - July 11, 1864 (Defense of Washington)

    Casualties

    1,505 Enrollment
    152 Killed or Died of Wounds
    403 Wounded
    212 Died of Disease
    19 In Confederate Prisons

    Civil War Records Commond 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 Seventh Maine Infantry

  • Enrollment papers - 1862-1864 (Box 47)
  • Enos M. Toby, removal of desertion charges - 1862 (Box 47)
  • Muster In and Descriptive Rolls - 1861-1863-1864 (Box 47)

  • 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
  • Regimental Returns - 1st Veteran Volunteers, 7th, 8th, 9th - 1864
  • Diary of George C. Saunders
  • Manuscript record of service of Capt. George H. Buker, Sept. 17, 1896, Germantown, PA (4 pages)
  • Typescript Address by Major Andrew M. Benson on life in rebel prisons, Feb. 8, 1895, Boston, MA (44 pages)

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