The 30th Maine Infantry Regiment was an
infantry
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regiment
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that served in the
Union Army
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during the
American Civil War
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.
Service
The 30th Maine Infantry was organized in
Augusta, Maine and mustered in on January 8, 1864, for three years' service. While recruiting the regiment received veterans and new recruits from the
13th Maine Infantry, which had been reduced to battalion strength.
The regiment was attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division,
XIX Corps,
Department of the Gulf
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History United States Army (Civil War)
Creation
The department was co ...
, to July 1864, and
Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division, to December 1864. Garrison of Winchester, Virginia, Army of the Shenandoah, to April 1865. Department of Washington to June 1865. District of Savannah, Georgia, Department of the South, to August 1865.
The 30th Maine Infantry mustered out of service August 20, 1865.
Detailed service
Left Maine for New Orleans, La., January 31, 1864, arriving February 16. Duty at Algiers, La., February 16–18, 1864. Moved to Franklin February 18, and duty there until March 15. Red River Campaign March 15 – May 22. Advance to Alexandria March 15–26, and to Natchitoches March 29 – April 2. Battle of Sabine Cross Roads April 8. Pleasant Hill April 9. Cane River Crossing April 23. Construction of dam at Alexandria April 30 – May 10. Retreat to Morganza May 13–20. Mansura May 16. At Morganza until July 2. Moved to New Orleans, thence to Fortress Monroe and Bermuda Hundred, Va., July 2–18. Duty at Deep Bottom until July 31. Moved to Washington, D.C., then to Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7 – November 28. On detached duty, guarding supply trains, stores, etc., until October 26. Bunker Hill October 25. Duty near Middletown until November, and at Newtown until January 1865. At Winchester and Stevenson's Depot until April 1865. Moved to Washington, D.C., April 20, and duty there until June 30. Provost guard during the
Grand Review of the Armies
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May 23–24. Moved to Savannah, Ga., June 30 – July 7, and duty there until August.
Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 290 men during service; 3 officers and 31 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 2 officers and 254 enlisted men due to disease.
Commanders
* Colonel
Francis Fessenden
Francis Fessenden (March 18, 1839 – January 2, 1906) was an American lawyer, politician, and soldier from the state of Maine who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Eicher, p. 234. He was a member of the powe ...
* Colonel
Thomas Hamlin Hubbard
See also
*
List of Maine Civil War units
*
Maine in the American Civil War
As a fervently abolitionist and strongly Republican state, Maine contributed a higher proportion of its citizens to the Union armies than any other, as well as supplying money, equipment and stores. No land battles were fought in Maine. The only ...
References
* Dyer, Frederick H. ''A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion'' (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
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Military units and formations established in 1864
Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
30th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment