First Maine Heavy Artillery

Engagements

• Defense of Washington - Sept. 1862 to May 1864
• Fredericksburg Pike, VA - May 19, 1864
• Milford Station - May 20, 1864
• North Anna, VA - May 23, 1864
• Totopotomy, VA - May 26, 1864
• Cold Harbor, VA - May 31, 1864
• Jerusalem Plank Road, VA - June 22 - 23, 1864 (Petersburg Campaign)
• Deep Bottom, VA - August 18, 1864
• Boydton Plank Road, VA - October 27, 1864
• Weldon Railroad, VA - December 7, 1864
• Hatchers Run, VA - February 5, 1865
• Sailors Creek, VA - April 6, 1865
• Farmville, VA - April 7, 1865
• Appomattox, VA - April 8, 1865

Casualties

• 19.2 percent casualties
• 2,202 Enrollment
• 23 Officers killed or died of wounds
• 860 wounded
• 260 died of disease
• 21 in Confederate Prisons

Before Petersburg, VA: 950 engages in battle

• 115 killed
• 489 wounded - 95 mortally
• 28 missing
• 66.5 percent casualties

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 First Maine Heavy Artillery

• Recruits, 1st Heavy 1863-64 (Box 60)
• Muster In and Descriptive Rolls (Box 174)
• Clothing Lists - 1863 (Box 174) -List of men in the 1st Maine Heavy musterd out on a single muster roll
• Post War Address Book
• Clothing Books - 8 volumes - 1862-1865
• Returns of the Regiments including 1st Maine Heavy Artillery - 1863
• Returns of the Regiments including 1st Maine Heavy Artillery - 1864
• Returns of the Regiments including 1st Maine Heavy Artillery - 1865
• Typescript and manuscript history of Company G and service of Lt. Emery S. Wardwell, 21 pages

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