8th Maine Infantry

Muster In: September 7, 1861
Muster Out: January 18, 1866
Length of Service: Three Years

Engagements

Fort Pulaski, GA - April 10-11, 1862
Jacksonville, FL - March 23-31, 1863
Drewry's Bluff, VA - May 4-16, 1864
Ware Bottom Church, VA - May 9-20, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
Cold Harbor, VA - may 31-June 12, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
Petersburg, VA - July 30, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
Chaffins Farm, VA - September 28-30, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
Fort Gregg, VA - April 2, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)
Fort Baldwin, VA - April 2, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)
Rices Station, VA - April 6, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)
Appomattox, VA - April 9, 1865

Caualties:
1586 Enrollment
134 Killed or Died of Wounds
355 Wounded
247 Died of Disease
35 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 Eighth Maine Infantry

Muster In and Descriptive Rolls - 1863-64-65 (Box 48)
Recruits - 1862 (Box 48)

Clothing Books, 6 volumes - 1861 to 1865
Consolidated Morning Report - 1863-1864
Post War Post Office Addresses
Regimental Returns - 8th, 9th - 1861
Regimental Returns - 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th - 1862
Regimental Returns - 6th, 7th, 8th - 1863
Regimental Returns - 7th, 8th, 9th - 1864
Regimental Returns - 1st Heavy Artillery, 1st Batt. of Infantry, 8th - 1865
Single Muster Out Rolls, list of men
Records kept by Captain Edward H. Reynolds of Company A:
Clothing Allowance Reports, Camp Equipage Reports, Company Returns, Ordnance Reports, Rolls

Handwritten account of his Service by Joseph F. Twitchell, Hiram, ME, October 23, 1895 (2 pages)

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