The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-04-18
THEIR RECORDS
Brief Sketches of the Services of
Various Regiments.
list Me. III. a.

This regiment was organized at Bangor
and Augusta Aug. 81, 1861, to serve three
years as the 18th Me-, but its name was
changed to LIST Me. II. A.. in December, 1862.
Two additional companies were organized
one in January and the other in February,
1864. Veteranzed June 8, 1855 and the Or
ganiZatiOn composed Of veterans and recruits
of this and the 18th and 10Th Me remained
in the service until Sept. IL, 1885. OF the
2,047 regiments in the army this regiment
sustained the greatest loss in battle, and not
only was the number killed the largest, but
the percentage of killed was exceeded in
only one instance. 1t was attached to
Motifs Brigade, Birney's Division, of the
Second Corps. Its loss at Petersburg was
the greatest of any one regiment in any act
ion during the war, making the charge with
900 men, and losing 632 in killed and
wounded, these being the figures furnished
by Col Fox. At Fredericksburg Pike it
lost 80 men in killed and 1894 wounded, six
officers being killed. Maj. Daniel Chaplain,
of the I'd Me-, was It's first Colonel, bre-
vetted Najor-General, and was killed at
Deep Bottom, being succeeded in command
by Col. Russell B. Shepherd, who was sub
sequently brevetted Brigadier-General. Out
of total enrolment of 2202, 423 were
killed, or percentage of 1872, while 25S
officers and men died Of disease and other
causes The total number of killed and
wounded was 1888. The regiment lost
men in the battles of Fredericksburg Pike,
North Anna, Totopotomoy, assaults on
Petersburg, June is, II and 10 Jerusalem
Road, Siege of Petersburg, Deep Bottom,
Weldon Railroad, Boydton Road, Hatcher's
Run, Sailors Greek. All of the losses of
the regiment occurred within period of
10 months.
The sth Mich.
Organized at Detroit in the Fall of 1861
to serve three years, and veteranized, re-
manning in the service until July 80, 1865.
The regiment was facetiously known as
The Wandering Regiment" and was at
tached mostly to Hartranft's Brigade, Will
cox's Division, of the Ninth Corps. The
regiment had three commanders, Col. Will
liam M. Fenton Col. Frank Graves, killed
in the Wilderness, and Col. Ralph Ely sub
sequently brevetted Brigsdier-General. The
regiment lost 223 men in killed, which, out
of an enrolment of RIO, gives percentage
of loss of 1875, placing it among the 300
fighting regiments. The total of killed and
wounded number 1888, while 223 men died
in prison, of disease, and other causes, It
was in the battles of Coosaw River Port
Royal Ferry, Wilmington Island, James
Island, Manassas, Chantilly, South Mount
ain, Antietam, Blue Spring, Campbell's Sta
ton, siege of Knoxville, Wilderness, Spott-
sylvania, Shady Grove, Bethesda Church,
Cold Harbor, Petersburg assault, mine and
trenches, Weldon Railroad, Poplar Springs
Church, and fail of Petersburg, at each of
which men were killed, the highest loss in
any one battle being at James Island, where
81 men were killed. 1t was present at
Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, Jackson, Lenoir
Station, North Anna, Hatcher's Run and
Fort Stedman, but lost no men in killed.