Nineteenth Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry

Engagements

• Fredericksburg, VA - December 13, 1862
• Chancellorsville, VA - May 1 - 4, 1863
• Gettysburg, PA - July 1 - 3, 1863 (Gettysburg Campaign)
• Bristoe Station, VA - October 14, 1863
• Mine Run, VA - November 26 - December 1, 1863
• Wilderness, VA - May 5 - 7, 1864
• Spotsylvania, VA - May 7 - 20, 1864
• Po River, VA - May 9 - 12, 1864 (Spotsylvania Campaign)
• North Anna, VA - May 23 - 27, 1864
• Totopotomy, VA - May 26, - 30, 1864
• Cold Harbor, VA - May 31 - June 12, 1864
• Petersburg, VA Seige - June 1864
• Deep Bottom, VA - August 14, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
• Reams Station, VA - August 25, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
• Boydton Road, VA - October 23, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
• Hatchers Run, VA - December 8 - 9, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
• High Bridge, VA - April 6, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)
• Farmville, VA - April 7, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)
• Appomattox, VA - April 9, 1865

Casualties

• 1,441 Enrollment
• 192 killed or died of wounds
• 13.3% casualties
• 501 wounded
• 184 died of disease
• 47 in Confederate Prisons

5th Company of Unassigned Maine Infantry incorporated, November 1864

• In conjunction with the 15th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, the 1st Regiment Minnesota Infantry and the 82nd Regiment New York Infantry, it formed Harrow's 1st Brigade, Gibbons's 2nd Division, 2nd Corps. This Brigade had the greated percentage of casualties of any Brigade at Gettysburg, where its loss was 61 percent of those engaged.

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 Nineteenth Maine Infantry

• Recruits, 1862, 63, 64 (Box 56)
• Muster In and Descriptive Rolls, 1863, 64, 65 (Box 164)
• Rejected Men, 1862 (Box 164)
• Clothing Books - 5 Volumes, 1862-1865
• Consolidated Morning Report, 1862, 63, 64
• Hospital Returns, September 1863
• Post War Post Office Addresses
• Regimental Returns - 19th, 20th, 21th - 1862
• Regimental Returns - 16th, 17th, 19th - 1863
• Regimental Returns - 17th, 19th, 20th - 1864
• Single Muster Out Rolls, List of men
• Civil War Diary - Capt. Charles E. Nash, January to August, 1864
• Civil War Diary and Letters from Willis M. Porter, Co. K, to Esther Friend, 1862-1865
• Letter informing of the death of Capt. Charles S. Larrabee from H.A. Duncan, 1895
• Account of the 19th Maine at Gettysburg by Gen. F.E. Heath, donated by Gen. Selden Connor, 1895 (6 pages)
• Material donated by Gen. Selden Connon, 1895: Muster out roll of Seldon Connor as Lt. Col. 7th Maine Inf.; Extract from Spec. Orders #162; Extract from Spec. Orders #47; Letter from Gen. A.s. Webb to Gen. Connor referring to the Battle of the Wilderness; "How Gen. Connor Got His Crutches"

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