11th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 11th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 11th Maine Infantry was organized in Augusta , Maine and mustered in for a three - year enlistment on November 12 , 1861 under the command of Colonel John Curtis Caldwell . The regiment was attached to Davis ' Provisional Brigade , Army of the Potomac , to January 1862 . 1st Brigade , Casey ' s Division , Army of the Potomac , to March 1862 . 1st Brigade , 3rd Division , IV Corps , Army of the Potomac , to June 1862 . 1st Brigade , 2nd Division , IV Corps , to December 1862 . Naglee ' s Brigade , Department of North Carolina , to January 1863 . 2nd Brigade , 2nd Division , XVIII Corps , to February 1863 . 1st Brigade , 2nd Division , XVIII Corps , Port Royal , South Carolina , Department of the South , to April 1863 . District of Beaufort , South Carolina , X Corps , Department of the South , to June 1863 . Fernandina , Florida , Department of the South , to October 1863 . 1st Brigade , Morris Island , South Carolina , X Corps , Department of the South , to April 1864 . 2nd Brigade , 1st Division , X Corps , Army of the James , Department of Virginia and North Carolina , to May 1864 . 3rd Brigade , 1st Division , X Corps , to December 1864 . 3rd Brigade , 1st Division , XXIV Corps , to July 1865 . 2nd Brigade , 1st Division , XXIV Corps , to August 1865 . Department of Virginia , to February 1866 . The 11th Maine Infantry mustered out of service at City Point , Virginia on February 2 , 1866 . Detailed service . Left Maine for Washington , D . C . , November 13 . Duty in the defenses of Washington , D . C . , until March 1862 . Advance on Manassas , Va . , March 10 – 15 . Moved to Newport News March 28 . Siege of Yorktown April 5 - May 4 . Battle of Williamsburg May 5 . Operations about Bottom ' s Bridge May 20 – 23 . Battle of Fair Oaks , Seven Pines , May 31 - June 1 . Guard Bottom ' s Bridge June 13 – 26 . Seven days before Richmond June 25 - July 1 . Destruction of railroad bridge over Chickahominy June 27 . Bottom ' s Bridge June 28 – 29 . White Oak Swamp June 30 . Malvern Hill July 1 . At Harrison ' s Landing until August 15 . Moved to Yorktown August 16 – 22 , and duty there until December 26 . Expedition to Matthews County December 11 – 15 . Moved to Morehead City , N . C . , December 26 - January 1 , 1863 , then to Port Royal , S . C . , January 28 – 31 . To St . Helena Island February 10 , and duty there until April 4 . Expedition against Charleston April 4 – 12 . At Beaufort , S . C . , until June . Moved to Fernandina , Fla . , June 4 – 6 , and duty there until October 6 . ( A detachment acting as artillery on Morris Island , S . C . , during siege of Fort Wagner , and operations against Charleston , July to October 1863 . ) The regiment moved to Morris Island October 6 and siege operations against Charleston until April 1864 , then ordered to Gloucester Point , Va . Butler ' s operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4 - June 15 . Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred May 5 . Port Walthal May 6 – 7 . Ware Bottom Church May 9 . Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church May 9 – 10 . Operations against Fort Darling May 12 – 16 . Drury ' s Bluff May 14 – 16 . Bermuda Hundred May 17 - June 20 . Action at Bermuda Hundred June 2 and 14 . Port Walthal , Bermuda Front , June 16 – 17 . Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16 , 1864 to April 2 , 1865 . Deep Bottom June 20 and 25 . Grover House , Deep Bottom , July 21 . New Market Heights , Deep Bottom , July 27 – 28 . Strawberry Plains August 14 – 18 . In trenches before Petersburg August 27 - September 26 . New Market Heights September 28 – 29 . Chaffin ' s Farm September 29 – 30 . Darbytown and New Market Roads October 7 . Darbytown Road October 13 . Fair Oaks October 27 – 28 . Chaffin ' s and Johnson ' s Farms October 29 . Non - veterans left front for muster out November 7 . Duty on north side of James River before Richmond until March 27 , 1865 . ( Detached for duty at New York City during election of 1864 , November 5 – 17 , 1864 . ) Moved to Hatcher ' s Run March 27 – 29 . Appomattox Campaign March 28 - April 9 . Assault and capture of Forts Gregg and Baldwin and fall of Petersburg April 2 . Pursuit of Lee to Appomattox April 3 – 9 . Rice ' s Station April 6 . High Bridge April 7 . Clover Hill , Appomattox Court House , April 9 . Surrender of Lee and his army . Duty at Richmond , Va . , April 24 to November 24 , and at Fredericksburg , Va . , until January 19 , 1866 . Mustered out at City Point , Va . , February 2 , 1866 . Casualties . The regiment lost a total of 359 men during service ; 7 officers and 115 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 4 officers and 233 enlisted men died of disease .