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Identifier: 06079300.3221.emory.edu
Title: Maine at Gettysburg (electronic resource)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Gettysburg Commission (Me.)
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Publisher: Portland, Me. : Lakeside Press
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
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Feb. 18, and discharged Feb. 23, 1865. 364 MAINE AT GETTYSBURG. MONUMENT OF FIFTH MAINE REGIMENT. The monument stands north of Little Round Top, on the north side ofthe road leading from the Taneytown road to the Emmitsburg road andintersecting the latter at the Peach Orchard. The monument has an elab-orate design, showing upon its face the Coat of Arms of Maine, the Greekcross of the Sixth corps, and a group of war trophies. Admeasurements: Base, six feet by four feet by one foot ten inches;plinth, four feet six inches by two feet six inches by one foot five inches; tab-let, four feet by two feet by eight feet. Total height, eleven feet three inches. The following are the inscriptions:— 5 th Maine Infantry 2nd Brig. 1st Div- 6th Corps Occupied this Position from Evening of July 2nd until Close of Battle. Mustered into U S. Service, Portland, Me. June 24, 1861. Served with the Army of the Potomac in the field from 1st Bull Run to Petersburg. Mustered out, Portland, June 27, 1864. r~
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FIFTH MAINE EEGIMENT, SECOND BRIGADE, FIRST DIVISION, SIXTH ARMY CORPS, AT THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. MAINES record at Gettysburg is not complete without therecords of several other regiments that underwent thelabors of the campaign and were present on the field,although by the fortunes of the day they were spared hardfighting and heavy losses. In General Sedgwicks Sixth armycorps, which was thirty-five miles away at Manchester, Md.,when the battle began on the morning of July 1st, were threeof Maines famous veteran regiments, the Fifth, Sixth andSeventh. The Fifth Maine was attached to Bartletts brigadeof Wrights division. It had been one of the first regimentsto respond to President Lincolns call for volunteers in 1861,and had been in nearly all the famous battles of the army ofthe Potomac. Colonel Clark S. Edwards, one of the bravestofficers in the service from the state, commanded the regiment,which numbered at Gettysburg about two hundred and seventy-five officers and men. The reg

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