Eighth Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry

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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