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Sixteenth Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry

Engagements

  • South Mountain, MD - September 14, 1862 (Antietam Campaign)*
  • Antietam, MD - September 17, 1862 (Antietam Campaign)*
  • Fredericksburg, VA - December 13, 1862
  • Chancellorsville, VA - May 1 - 4, 1863
  • Gettysburg, PA - July 1 - 3, 1863 (Gettysburg Campaign)
  • Mine Run, VA - November 26 - December 1, 1863
  • Wilderness, VA - May 5 - 7, 1864
  • Spottsylvania, VA - May 7 - 20, 1864
  • North Anna, VA - May 23 - 27, 1864
  • Totopotomy, VA - May 26, - 30, 1864
  • Bethesda Church, VA - May 30 - June 1, 1864
  • Petersburg, VA - June 9, 1864
  • Weldon Railroad, VA - August 18 - 21, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
  • New Market Heights, VA - September 28 - 30, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
  • Hatchers Run, VA - December 8 - 9, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
  • Gravelly Run, VA - March 29 - 30, 1865 (Petersburg Campaign)
  • Five Forks, VA - March 30 -April 1, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)
  • Appomattox, VA - April 9, 1865

Casualties

  • 1,907 Enrollment
  • 181 killed or died of wounds
  • 578 wounded
  • 259 died of disease
  • 76 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 Sixteenth Maine Infantry

  • Recruits, 1863-64 (Box 52)
  • Deserters, 1862 (Box 161)
  • Muster In and Descriptive Rolls, 1863, 64, 65 (Box 161)
  • Rejected Men, 1862 (Box 161)
  • Clothing Books - 4 Volumes, 1862-1865
  • Consolidated Morning Report, 1862-65 (2 Volumes)
  • Hospital Returns, September 1863
  • Post War Post Office Addresses
  • Regimental Returns - 16th, 17th, 18th - 1862
  • Regimental Returns - 16th, 17th, 18th - 1863
  • Regimental Returns - 16th, 17th, 18th - 1864
  • Single Muster Out Rolls, List of men
  • Single Muster Roll, February 1865 to April 1865, Gift of Lynda Sudlow.
  • Copy of brief history written by H.F. Andrews in 1906, Gift of Tom MacDonald.
  • Record of Sergt. Luther Bradford, Co. E, donated by Lt. Aubrey Leavitt, 1895, 1 page.
  • Record of Lt. Aubrey Leavitt, Co. E, donated by Lt. Aubrey Leavitt, 1895, 1 page.
  • Report of the 19th Reunion of the 16th Maine Regimental Association, 16 pages, donated by A.R. Small, 1895.
  • Newspaper clippings "In the Libby" by Major A.R. Small, donated by him, 1895.
Note: * The 16th did not actually participate in the battles at South Mountain and Antietam, but they were ordered to march there, and did arrive at South Mountain just after the fighting stopped. They were present, but held in reserve during the subseque

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