Twentieth Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry

Engagements

• Antietam, MD - September 17, 1862*
• Shepherdstown Ford, VA - September 19 - 20, 1862 (Antietam Campaign)
• Fredericksburg, VA - December 13, 1862
• Chancellorsville, VA - May 1 - 4, 1863
• Middleburg, VA - June 17, 1863 (Gettysburg Campaign)
• Gettysburg, PA - July 1 - 3, 1863 (Gettysburg Campaign)
• Sharpsburg Pike, MD - (Gettysburg Campaign)
• Rappahannock Station, VA - November 7, 1863 (Bristoe Campaign)
• Mine Run, VA - November 26 - December 1, 1863
• Wilderness, VA - May 5 - 7, 1864
• Spotsylvania, 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
• Cold Harbor, VA - May 31 - June 12, 1864
• Petersburg, VA Seige - June 1864
• Jerusalem Plank Road, VA - June 22 - 23, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
• Weldon Railroad, VA - August 18 - 21, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
• Peebles Farm, VA - September 30 - October 2, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
• Hatchers Run, VA - December 8 - 9, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
• Quaker Road, VA - March 29, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)
• Gravelly Run, VA - March 29, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)
• Five Forks, VA - March 30 - April 1, 1865 (Appomattox Campaign)
• Appomattox, VA - March 29 - April 9, 1865

Casualties

• 1,621 Enrollment
• 147 killed or died of wounds
• 381 wounded
• 146 died of disease
• 15 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 Twentieth Maine Infantry

• Recruits, 1864-65 (Box 57)
• Rejected Men, 1862 (Box 57)
• Twentieth Regiment list, 1862 (Box 57)
• Re-enlistment in field, 1863 (Box 57)
• Muster In and Descriptive List, 1864-65 (Box 57)
• Enlistment Papers, 1862 (Box 58)
• Clothing Books - 6 Volumes, 1862-1865
• Consolidated Morning Report, 1862-1865 (1 Volume)
• Hospital Returns, August 1863
• Medical Examinataions 1861-1862
• Post War Post Office Addresses
• Regimental Returns - 19th, 20th, 21th - 1862
• Regimental Returns - 20th, 29th, 30th - 1863
• Regimental Returns - 17th, 19th, 20th - 1864
• Single Muster Out Rolls, List of men
• Civil War Diary - Nathan S. Clark, Co. H. 1862-1865
• Civil War Letters - Hezekiah Long, Co. I. September 10, 1862 to February 21, 1865. Copies (122 pages)
• Record of Lt. Edward Simonton, Co. G, donated by him 1895 (3 pages)
• Copies of Ellis Spear's wartime diaries, 1863, 1864, 1865
• Albert E. Fernald papers (notebook)
• Calendar of Correspondence

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