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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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STAINED THE GREATEST LOSS OF ANY IN THE UNION ARMY In the assault on Petersburg, June 18,1864, these boys from Maine, ser^^ng as infantry, sustained the greatestloss of any one regiment in any one action of the war. Before the site where Fort Stedman was subse-quently built 635 men were killed and wounded out of nine hundred engaged, a loss of over seventy per cent,in seven minutes. Such slaughter has never been paralleled in any warfare, ancient or modern. Of all theregiments in the Union armies this regiment lost most during the four years. Twenty-three officers and400 enlisted men were killed and mortally wounded, and two hundred and sixty died of disease. The FirstMaine Hea^y Artillery was organized at Bangor, and mustered in August 21, ISdi. It left the State forWashington on August ■24th. This section of the tremendous regimental quota—eighteen himdred men—isdrilling at Fort Sumner in the winter of 1863. The men little imagine, as they go skilfully through their evo- (IIS)
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COPYRIGHT, I91, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY DRILLING IN FORT SUMNER, ON A WINTERS DAY OF 63 lutions in the snow, that the hand of death is to fall so ruthlessly on their ranks. From the defenses of Wash-ington they went to Belle Plain, Virginia, on May 15, 1864, as a part of Tylers Heavy Artillery Di\ision.Four days later, at Harriss Farm on the Fredericksburg Road, tlie first of their great disasters fell upon them.In this engagement their killed numbered eighty-two, their wounded 394, and their missing five. Less thana month later came the awful slaughter at Petersburg. The remnant of the regiment served until its fall,April 2, 1865. After taking part in the Grand Review at Washington and remaining in its defenses till Sep-tember 11th, the organization was mustered out, and ordered to Bangor, Maine. On September 20, 1865,the survivors of this fighting regiment were mustered out. The Second Wisconsin Infantry lost a greaterpercentage in killed during its who

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