5th Maine Volunteer Intantry Regiment


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1861

 

Organized at Portland

June 24

Mustered in

June 26

Left State for Washington, D.C. Camp at Meridian Hill attached to Howard's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeastern Virginia

July 16-21

Advance on Manassas, Va.

July 21

Battle of Bull Run

August 4

Duty in the Defenses of Washington assigned to Heintzelman's Brigade, Division of the Potomac

October

Attached to Slocum's Brigade, Franklin's Division, Army of the Potomac

October 3

Expedition to Pohick Church, Va.


1862

March

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army Potomac

March 10-15

Advance on Manassas, Va.

April 4-12

McDowell's advance on Fredericksburg, Va.

April 22

Ordered to the Peninsula

April 24-May 4

Siege of Yorktown (on Transports)

May 7-8

West Point

May

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac

June 25-July 1

Seven days before Richmond

June 27

Gaines' Mill

June 28

Golding's Farm

June 29

Savage Station

June 30

Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale

July 1

Malvern Hill

July - August

At Harrison's Landing

August 15-27

Retreat from the Peninsula and movement to Centreville

August 27-31

In works at Centreville

September 1

Assist in checking Pope's rout at Bull Run and cover retreat to Fairfax C. H.

September-October

Maryland Campaign

September 14

Crampton's Pass, South Mountain

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

September 26 - October 29

At Hagerstown, Md.

October 29 - November 19

Movement to Falmouth, Va.

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg


1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

January

Clak S. Edwards appointed colonel

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

April 29-May 2

Operations at Franklin's Crossing

May 3

Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg

May 3-4

Salem Heights

May 4

Banks' Ford

June 6-13

Operations about Deep Run Ravine

July 2-4

Battle of Gettysburg Commandd by Colonel Clark Edwards, it brought 340 men to the field. it was in reserve and suffered no casualties.

July 10-13

Near Funkstown, Md.

July 13

Hagerstown

October 9-22

Bristoe Campaign

November 7-8

Advance to line of the Rappahannock

November 7

Rappahannock Station

November 26-December 2

Mine Run Campaign


1864

May 3 to June 15

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River

May 5-7

Battles of the Wilderness

May 8

Laurel Hill

May 8-12

Spotsylvania

May 12-21

Spotsylvania C. H.

May 12

Assault on the Salient "Bloody Angle"

May 23-26

North Anna River

May 26-28

On line of the Pamunkey

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 19-22

Before Petersburg. Ordered to the rear for muster out.

July 27

Mustered out, expiration of term. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 6th Maine Infantry.


Stärke / Verluste

Regiment (gesamter Krieg): ???? Soldaten / 8 Offiziere und 99 Soldaten gefallen oder tödlich verwundet / 1 Offizier und 76 Soldaten vesrtorben an Krankheiten u.ä.
Gettysburg (Schlacht): 


Ehrungen 5th Maine (nur Ehrenmedallie des Kongresses)

  

  

  


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Daten und Links ohne Gewähr (10.2015)