1st Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 1st Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 1st Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
caption=Flag of Maine
dates= May 3,1861 to August 5, 1861
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
colonels_of_the_regiment=
battles= None
The 1st Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
Abraham Lincoln's first call for volunteers in April, 1861 required Maine to raise one regiment of infantry. This was done by reorganizing ten existing companies of the state militia, completed at Portland, Maine on 28 April, 1861 and mustered into service on 3 May, 1861, a total of 779 soldiers. The First Maine was transferred to Washington, D.C. on 1 June, 1861, where it remained until 1 August 1, 1861, encamped on Meridian Hill. It spent its entire service in the Washington defenses and saw no combat. They were mustered out on 5 August, 1861. Many soldiers in the regiment who wanted to remain in service reenlisted into other Maine regiments being organized.
Casualties
The regiment lost no men during its brief period of service. [http://www.state.me.us/sos/arc/archives/military/civilwar/1meinf.htm]
ee also
Maine Units in the Civil War
Notes
References
*Hodsdon, John L. "Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine 31 Dec, 1861". Stevens & Sayward, Augusta, 1862
External links
* [http://www.state.me.us/sos/arc/archives/military/civilwar/1meinf.htm State of Maine Civil War Records Website]
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