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Maine in the Civil War @72,000 Men

Maine in the Civil War @72,000 Men. Army 2 Regiments of Cavalry, 1 Regiment of Heavy Artillery, 7 Batteries of Light Artillery, 2 Companies of Sharpshooters, 32 Regiments of Infantry, 7 Companies of Coast Guard Infantry Navy @25% of all Union Navy Sailors Came from Maine.

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Maine in the Civil War @72,000 Men

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  1. Maine in the Civil War@72,000 Men Army 2 Regiments of Cavalry, 1 Regiment of Heavy Artillery, 7 Batteries of Light Artillery, 2 Companies of Sharpshooters, 32 Regiments of Infantry, 7 Companies of Coast Guard Infantry Navy @25% of all Union Navy Sailors Came from Maine

  2. Maine Death’s - Civil War • 3,184 died as a result of battle wounds • 6,214 died from other causes (mostly disease) • 18.9% of Maine troops died during the Civil War, the highest percentage of any Union State • First Maine Heavy Artillery suffered the highest number of deaths in one battle (242 dead, 372 wounded at the Battle of Petersburg, June 1864)

  3. Maine Units at Gettysburg(In chronological order as they appeared on the battlefield)330 Officers – 5012 Men • Hall’s 2nd Maine Battery – 2 killed, 18 wounded • 16th Maine – 11 killed, 62 wounded, 159 captured • Steven’s 5thMaine Battery – 3 killed, 13 wounded, 6 missing • 3rd Maine – 18 killed, 59 wounded, 45 missing • 4th Maine – 22 killed, 38 wounded, 56 missing • 17th Maine – 40 killed, 92 wounded • 20th Maine – 38 killed, 92 wounded • 19th Maine – 65 killed, 137 wounded, 4 missing • Dow’s 6th Maine Battery – 13 wounded • Company D, 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters – 1 killed, 5 wounded, 5 missing • 5th Maine – 10 killed, 69 wounded, 16 missing • 6th Maine – 1 wounded • 7th Maine – 2 killed, 5 wounded • 1st Maine Cavalry – 1 killed, 6 wounded, 1 captured • 10th Maine – no casualties, in support

  4. 1st Day at Gettysburg July 1, 1863 - Wednesday

  5. Major Gen. Oliver Otis Howard11th Corp Commander

  6. Hall’s 2nd Maine Battery

  7. Hall’s 2nd Maine Battery "We again bore the brunt of the battle at Gettysburg on the 1st day of July (ant the first of the fight). I was the advance Artillery of the Army of the Potomac and was engaged for more than an hour before any battery came to our assistance. And you may well know we got badly hurt. 36 horses & 22 men in about one hour and a half - My loss in men was many of them slightly wounded and several taken prisoner so close was the action. We were so reduced in horses that we were obliged to drag two guns off by hand. The boys fought like the D-, never better. You may judge when I tell you that many of our horses were not shot but bayoneted that it was a close and desperate struggle for our guns, two of which they actually had hold of at one time. I have seen hard fighting before. And been badly smashed up, but I never saw a battery taken from the field and its guns saved in so bad a state as the Old Second came of that day

  8. 16th Maine Col. Charles William Tilden

  9. Major Abner Small – 16th Maine It was only a matter of minutes before the grey lines threatened to crush us. They came on, firing from behind the wall, from fences, from the road; they forced us, fighting back along the ridge; and Captain Lowell fell, and some of our men. We got to the railroad cut, which offered a means of defense against the rebels following us, but just then we saw grey troops making in from the west, and they saw us. We were caught between two fires. It was the end. For a few last moments our little regiment defended angrily its hopeless challenge, but it was useless to fight longer. We looked at our colors, and our faces burned. We must not surrender those symbols of our pride and our faith. Our color bearers appealed to the colonel, and with his consent they tore the flags from the staves and ripped the silk to shreds; and our officers and men that were near took each a shred. I have one with a golden star.

  10. 2nd Day at Gettysburg July 1, 1863 - Wednesday

  11. 3rd Maine at the Peach Orchard

  12. 17th Maine in the Wheatfield

  13. Into the Wheatfield by Rick Reeves

  14. Contingency Theory of History Random Self Organization Butterfly Effect Luck Chance Necessity Sequence Stephen Jay Gould Harvard, Paleontologist

  15. History is Linear A Moment of Contingency A B But Sometimes B1 “History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme” – Mark Twain

  16. The Men Were Thirsty

  17. 15th Alabama at Little Round TopJuly 2, 1863

  18. 20th Maine and 15th Alabama By Dale Gallon

  19. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Brewer Memorial

  20. 3rd Day at Gettysburg July 1, 1863 - Wednesday

  21. 19th Maine at Picketts Charge

  22. Col. Francis E. Heath

  23. “In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision place of souls. And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream” Joshua Chamberlain at the 20th Maine Monument dedication – July 3, 1888

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