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THE
STORY OF ONE REGIMENT
THE ELEVENTH MAINE
INFANTRY . VOLUNTEERS IN
THE WAR OF THE REBELLION
COMPILED BY El Committee of the IRegimental Association
NEW YORK 1896
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Maine infantry. 11th regt., 1861-1866.
The story of one regiment; the Eleventh Maine in- fantry volunteers in the war of the rebellion. Comp. by a committee of the regimental association. New York. Press of J. J. Little & co.] 1896.
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COLONEL AND BREVET BRIGADIER GENERAL J. A. HILL. (The only original officer mustered out with the regiment.)
PREFACE.
Comrades :
The desirability of taking steps to the end that a history of the Eleventh Maine Regiment of Infantry Volunteers be compiled was a subject of conversation for many years among the regi- ment's surviving members. All agreed that such a compilation should be made, in order that the exact story of the part their regiment took in the suppression of the great rebellion should be made known. But it was not until 1891, at the reunion held at Camp Benson, that action was taken. On that occasion, at the business meeting, after an exchange of views on the subject, it was voted that the acting president of the Regimental Association appoint a committee of five to gather material for such a regi- mental history as it should be found desirable to publish.
Comrade and Sergeant-Major Elias P. Morton, the president of the Association the year of this reunion, thereupon appointed, as the members of the Historical Committee, Brevet Brigadier-Gen- eral and Colonel J. A. Hill, Captain Albert Maxfield, Captain and Quartermaster William H. H. Andrews, First Lieutenant Robert Brady, Jr., and Sergeant John A. Brackett. Captain Andrews died during the year, and at the next annual reunion, held in Portland, the Committee, as empowered, elected Sergeant- Major Elias P. Morton to fill the vacancy. The Committee has remained as thus constituted.
At its first meeting, held at Camp Benpon, General Hill was elected chairman, and it was determined that the history should contain the story of the share of the regiment in the suppression of the rebellion and a statistical record of the military history of all who had served in it, to which should be added, so far as practicable, a record of their movements after they were mus- tered out. Captain Maxfield was appointed by the chairman to gather material for the Statistical Record, and Lieutenant Brady to gather material for the Story of the Regiment. These comrades set to work without delay, and at each subsequent annual reunion submitted to the Committee for advice and
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revision such material as they had gathered and put in form dur- ing the year preceding. .
Captain Maxfield desires to express his appreciation of the kindness of comrades and others who have aided him in the wide research he has been obliged to make to obtain a knowledge of the fate of a large percentage of those who have died during the thirty years that have passed since the last one returned to civil life. Many comrades have settled in far-away States, and have wandered into far lands ; and often, as the blanks in the record will show, out of the ken of the most searching inquiry. But, through the efforts of our comrades, and of relatives and friends of temporarily missing comrades, and from researches made through the courtesy of Grand Army Posts, in the War Department, and in the Office of the Adjutant-General of the State of Maine -- the archives of which office have been at our dis- posal, Captain Thomas Clark, of our regimeut, an attache of that office, having been empowered to furnish Comrade Maxfield with all possible data ; through all this assistance, and by following every clue that came into his hands, Comrade Maxfield enables us to present to you a very complete record of what has become of the two thousand men who first and last were ranged under the beloved banner of our old regiment.
Lieutenant Brady compiled the historical sketch-from many sources, also ; from his own recollections and those of many com- rades, especially from the diaries of particular comrades, to whom due credit will be found given for quotations made from their diaries. But much information was gathered from these diaries and used, for which credit is not given, such as the day and the hour of the occurrence of many dimly remembered events, the state of the weather from day to day, the condition of the roads we marched on, the length of the march, the condition of the men, and so on"; and running along together without difference, as they do, they are indisputable evidence of what actually took place from day to day. Comrade Brady filled in the recollections and the tale of the diaries with material gathered from military reports and histories, Union and Confederate -- McClellan's reports, Beauregard's " Military Operations," Taylor's " Destruc- tion and Reconstruction, " the reports of the Army of Northern Virginia, the history of the Second Army Corps, that of the Forty-eighth New York, Chaplain Trumbull's " Knightly Sol-
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dier " (a virtual history of the Tenth Connecticut until Major Camp was killed) --- from the history of the Peninsula campaign by . General Alexander S. Webb, LL. D., and that of the operations of the armies of the Potomac and the James in 1864 and 1865 by General A. A. Humphreys. To these must be added a reading of the operations of the navy on the Atlantic coast by Admiral Ammen, and the stories of many desultory writers on events in which we participated, ending with a careful scrutiny of news- paper files of the years of the war.
The other members of the Committee-Comrades Morton, Brackett, and myself-have faithfully aided Comrades Maxfield and Brady in their work, assisting them in gathering statistics and incidents, and in shaping the story. It is a pleasure to the chair- man of the Historical Committee to state that, in all the years the members of the Committee have acted together, they have done so without misunderstanding or difference, no word having been uttered or written that has needed to be withdrawn, He thanks the members for the unanimity that has made his chairmanship a pleasure. He also thanks the comrades, not on the Committee, who on their part have waited with a unanimity of perfect pa- tience for the completion of the Committee's long and somewhat arduous task. Congratulating all concerned on the happy ending of this task, he has the pleasure of presenting to his. old comrades in arms a completed history of the Eleventh Maine.
J. A. HILL, Chairman of the Historical Committee.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. FROM AUGUSTA TO WASHINGTON.
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Organization of the Regiment-Breaking Camp-On Our Way to Washington-Camp Knox . 1
CHAPTER II. WASHINGTON.
Meridian Hill-School of the Soldier --- Calling the Hours -- "Cor- poral of the Guard" -- "Battle of the Sand Pits "-Brigade Formation-Carver Barracks-Colonel Davis -- Barrack Life --- Disease and Death-" On to Richmond " -- A False Start .
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CHAPTER III. . BEFORE YORKTOWN.
Planning the Campaign-The Embarkation-On Board the Consti- tution-The First Hostile Shot-Newport News-Young's Mills -Engagement at Lee's Mills-Siege Operations-Evacuation of Yorktown . 19
CHAPTER IV. TO THE CHICKAHOMINY.
The Pursuit of the Confederate Army-Battle of Williamsburg-A Terrible Night-Going oy the Battlefield -- Colonel Plaisted -- The Chickahominy at Last -- General Naglee's Reconnaissance to the James-Crossing the Chickahominy -- Established at Fair Oaks 28
CHAPTER V. THE BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS.
The Situation of the Divisions of the Army of the Potomac -- The Rising of the Chickahominy -- The First Day of the Battle-The Pickets-The Second Day of the Battle -- Colonel Plaisted's Report-List of Casualties . . 37
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CHAPTER I. FROM AUGUSTA TO WASHINGTON.
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Organization of the Regiment-Breaking Camp-On Our Way to Washington-Camp Knox . - 1 ·
CHAPTER II. WASHINGTON.
Meridian Hill-School of the Soldier -- Calling the Hours - " Cor- poral of the Guard" -- "Battle of the Sand Pits "-Brigade Formation -- Carver Barracks-Colonel Davis-Barrack Life --- Disease and Death-" On to Richmond " -- A False Start . 11
CHAPTER III. . BEFORE YORKTOWN.
Planning the Campaign-The Embarkation-On Board the Consti- tution-The First Hostile Shot-Newport News-Young's Mills -Engagement at Lee's Mills-Siege Operations-Evacuation of Yorktown 19
CHAPTER IV. TO THE CHICKAHOMINY.
The Pursuit of the Confederate Army-Battle of Williamsburg-A Terrible Night-Going oy the Battlefield -- Colonel Plaisted -- The Chickahominy at Last -- General Naglee's Reconnaissance to the James-Crossing the Chickahominy-Established at Fair Oaks . .
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CHAPTER V. THE BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS.
The Situation of the Divisions of the Army of the Potomac -- The Rising of the Chickahominy -- The First Day of the Battle-The Pickets-The Second Day of the Battle -- Colonel Plaisted's Report-List of Casualties . 37
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CHAPTER VI.
ON THE CHICKAHOMINY. PAGE
Guarding the Bridges-Jackson Reenforces Lee-The Battles of Mechanicsville and Gaines Mill -- Preparations for Retreat to the James -- A Strange Bombardment -- Left at Savage Station . 51
CHAPTER VII.
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Across White Oak Swamp -- Jackson Salutes with Thirty Guns- Naglec's Yankee Squad-A. Battery Arrives just in Time-Battle of Glendale -- Other Engagements of the Day-A Night March to the James-The Battle of Malvern Hill-Arrival at Harrison's Landing . 60
CHAPTER VIII.
HARRISON'S LANDING. 4
Evlington Heights -- General MeClellan's Address to the Army --- From the Richmond Enquirer-A Foraging Raid and its Results. - A Morning Alarm-From the Diaries-Lee Relieves Richmond by Threatening Washington-The Retreat to Yorktown . 67
CHAPTER IX. YORKTOWN.
How we Became Severed from the Army of the Potomac-Shoveling Virginia Soil-Disposition of Troops -- Catching Crabs-Country Produce-Contrabands-A Guerrilla Scare -- Our New Recruits- From the New York Evening Post-The Veterans and the Recruits -A Grievance-An Ungrateful Pickaninny --- General Emory --- The Raid into Matthews County-The Raid to Gloucester Court House . . 79
CHAPTER X.
PREPARING TO LEAVE VIRGINI !.
The Fourth Corps -- General Keyes-Changes in the Organization of the Regiment
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DEPARTMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA.
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We Sail from Yorktown-A Storm off Hatteras-Loss of the Monitor -Carolina City -- Incidents from the Diaries-Naglee Commands the Division-His Farewell Order to the Brigade -- Confederates' Anticipations 98
CHAPTER XII.
DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH.
We Land on St. Helena Island -- Incidents of Life There-The Break- ing up of Naglee's Brigade-Differences between General Officers of the Department -- General Naglee Leaves the Department- The First Attack on Charleston -- Its Failure and the Causes --- The Military Operations That had Taken Place in the Depart- ment of the South-The Negro as a Soldier-The Northern Idea of Charleston's Defenses and Defenders . 10.
CHAPTER XIII.
BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA.
Its Abandonment by its White Inhabitants, and Occupancy by the Union Forces-Raids of United States Negro Troops from this Point-The Confederate Weakness in South Carolina --- Incidents of our Life in Beaufort -- We Are Ordered to Fernandina, Fla. . 117
CHAPTER XIV.
FERNANDINA, FLORIDA.
We Sail from Beaufort to Fernandina-Colonel Plaisted as Post Com- mander, and his Staff -- The Arrangement of Troops-Details for Detached Service-A Night Alarm-Outpost Duty - " Halt ! Who Comes There ? " -- The " Shakes," and Lieutenant Dunbar's Diary of a Personal Experience-Incidents of one rifo in Fer- nandina-We Are Ordered to Morris Island . 122
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CHAPTER XV.
THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON. PAGE
We Land on Folly Island and March to. Morris Island-The Geog- raphy of the Situation-General Q. A. Gillmore and his Military Antecedents-The Landing on Morris Island and the Assaults on Fort Wagner --- The " Swamp Angel " Battery -- It is Manned by a Detachment of Volunteers from the Eleventh Maine, who Left Fernandina in July for Artillery Service in the Siege-The Story of this Detachment as told by their Commander, Lieutenant Sell- mer . 134
CHAPTER XVI.
THE REGIMENT IN THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON.
Turning Wagner and Gregg under the Enemy's Fire -- Hard Fatigue and Guard Duty-The Confederate Fleet --- Its Attack on our Flect-Torpedo Boats-The Sinking of the Weehawken-De- tachments of the Eleventh for Artillery Service-Experiences as Gunners in Battery Chatfield-Odd Escapes-Fun with a Captain -A. Shell Breaks into our Magazine-Casualties -- Night Bom- bardments-Attempt to Storm Sumter-The Artillery Detach- ments Return to the Regiment -- Aggressive Work closed for the Secasou . 148
CHAPTER- XVII. A WINTER ON THE SOUTH CAROLINA COAST,
Our Brigade Formation-A Military Execution-Garrisoning Fort Wagner and Black Island-The " Veteran Volunteers " go North -Incidents of Life in Fort Wagner and on Black Island -- April Fool -- Climatic Record-A High Tide and a Great Storm-The Dead Uncovered --- Beauregard Bombards us to Affect Operations in Florida -- His Stratagem a Success -- Experience with Shells -- The Destruction of & Blockade Runner-Relieved, We Sail for Virginia 158
CHAPTER XVIII. YORKTOWN AND GLOUCESTER POINT.
Recollection and a Comparison -- The Army of the James-The " Iron " Brigade -- The "Veterans " Return with One Hundred and Seventy-six Recruits-The Plan of Campaign -- Preparations Completed-We Embark and Sail for Bermuda Her Pret -- Or- ganization of the Regiment at This Time' . . 167
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CHAPTER XIX.
OPERATIONS BEFORE BERMUDA HUNDRED. PAGE
The Landing at Bermuda Hundred ---- Clothing the Roadsides-Forag- ing -- Marching and Countermarching-The Affair at Chester Sta- tion-An Expected Attack-The Advance on Drury's Bluff- The Death of Lieutenant Brannen ---- Heavy Skirmishing-The Battle of Drury's Bluff-The Retreat -- The Eleventh the Last Regiment to Reenter the Bermuda Hundred Works-List of Casualties . 175
CHAPTER XX.
IN BERMUDA HUNDRED.
The Eleventh Makes a Night Attack-List of Casualties -- Heavy Fighting all along the Line-The Men as Axemen -- " Bottled Up"-A Hearty Laugh --- Reinforcements for the Army of the Po- tomac-Beauregard's Reconnoissance in Force-The Stories of Our Companies-List of Casualties-Death of Colonel Spofford . 189
CHAPTER XXI.
DEFENDING THE BERMUDA HUNDRED FRONT.
The Gillmore Fiasco-Our New Position -- Private Haegan's Di- Jemma-The Coming of Grant-The Assaults on Petersburg- Beauregard Evacuates Bermuda Hundred Lines-An Adventure of the Tenth Connecticut -- The Arrival of Lee and the Flight of the " Hundred Days " Men-1 Joke on Myself-Lee's Vet- erans Assault our Front, while Those of Grant are Assaulting Beauregard's Position at Petersburg-Cessation of Attacks-Cas- ualties . 204
CHAPTER XXII. AT DEEP BOTTOM.
We Cross the James and Capture Deep Bottom Bluff -- Its Advantages as a Base of Operations on the North Side-Finding a " Pot of Cold" -- Hill and Baldwin Promoted-A False Alarm-Raiding the Enemy's Sources of Supply-Capturing Pickets to Secure Information-Colonel Hill's Adr Colonel Hill Leads an Attack on the Enemy and is amended in Reports-Colonel Plaisted Commands the Eleventh and the Tenth Connecticut in Operations on Strawberry Plains -- Hard Fighting-A Sad Acci-
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dent-Graut's Object --- Arrival of Hancock and Sheridan-Miles's Brigade, assisted by the Tenth Connecticut, Captures Four Twenty-pound Guns-The Movements of Hancock and Sheridan -- General Grant on the Ground-Report of a Rebel Prisoner- Hancock's Troops Withdrawn-We Retire to the Bluff-Casual- ties . 214
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE BATTLE OF DEEP BOTTOM.
The Tenth Connecticut Attacked-A Night Attack-Volunteers for the Dutch Gap Canal-A Military Execution-Marching Orders -The Coming of Hancock-Baldwin Leads the Attack-Hill Assumes Command as Baldwin Falls -- The General Assault-We Capture the Enemy's Outworks-The Second Corps Repulsed- Casualties . 233
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE BATTLES OF DEEP BUN AND FUSSELL'S MILL.
On Reserve-Form for Assault-Carry the Enemy's First Line -- A Terrible Rifle Fire-A Momentary Check-A Desperate Assault -Our Left Enfiladed -- A Graphic Pen Picture by Sergeant Miller-Our Loss in Officers-Captain Merrill in Command- Regiments on our Right Fall Back -- The Fight for Our Flag -- The Final Assault-Our Rapid Retreat-Reform Quickly and Check Pursuit -- Casualties -- The Dash of Gregg and Miles -Throwing up Intrenchments --- Skylarking-The Assault at Fussell's Mill -- Nearly a Panic-Fall Back to the Right-Retreat to the James-At Deep Bottom again . 243
CHAPTER XXV.
PETERSBURG.
A Sad March and a Glad Countermarch-A Night March to Peters- burg-We Take Position near Fort Hell -- Disappointed Artillery- men -- Under a Continual Fire-The Death of Bassett-A Brave Soldier-A Day in a Picket Hole-Pleasant Fatigue Duty -- Scurvy-Swindling the Surgeon's Cook-Roaring Shotted Salutes and an Incident of One-Major Can' - variation of a Mid- night Shotted Salute-Colonel Plais ANarrow Escape-Re- lieved and Fall Back out of the Line of Fire -- Casualties . . 257
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CHAPTER XXVI.
THE NORTH SIDE OF THE JAMES.
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Colonel Plaisted's Care of the Regiment-Drills once More-March- ing Orders-A Night March to Deep Bottom -- " Who Stole the Butter ?"-The Object of the Expedition-Capture of Works before Deep Bottom-General Ord Captures Fort Harrison and Other Works-Ord Wounded and Heckman Assumed Command -Fails to Carry the Works-We March on Richmond-See its Spires and Roofs-Forced to Fall Back-Intrenching -- Move- ments-Skirmishing-Kautz Loses his Position-We Face the Victors-Their- Assault and Defeat -- Casualties-A Reconnois- sance in Force and its Casualties-General Birney's Death-The Cavalry Driven in, and we Move out and Retake their Lost Position-The Last Engagement of the War on the North Side of the James-The Breaking up of the Old Organization-Re- duced to a Battalion -- Lieutenant Maxfield in Command -- Go to New York to Keep the Peace-Return to Chapin's Farm- The Return of Hill and Baldwin-A Regiment once More -- Losses in the Campaign . 269
CHAPTER XXVII.
IN WINTER QUARTERS.
The Opposing Lines-Changes in the Army of the James-The Twenty-fourth Corps-Its Badge-Changes in the Rank and File of the Regiment-Sergeant Blake's Story of Prison Life -- Changes in the Field, Staff, and Line of the Regiment -- General Plaisted's Farewell Order . . 285 .
CHAPTER XXVIII.
LAST DAYS ON THE NORTH SIDE.
Colonel Dandy the Brigade Commander -- Hill and Baldwin Promoted -The Fame of Hill-Henry O. Fox and Other Adjutants-Our Quartermasters- Our Surgeons-Our Chaplains-The Non-com- missioned Staff-The New Line Officers-The New Men-Our Camp-A Cold Winter. Paragus and their Whiskey Ration -- Re- viewed by General" wind Secretary Stanton -- Reviewed by President Lincoln- Marching Orders-To the South Side Again -- Organization of the Regiment . . 295
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CHAPTER XXLX.
THE FALL OF PETERSBURG AND OF RICHMOND.
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Winter Operations in the South-Sherman's March to North Carolina -- Ilis Consultation with Grant and Lincoln-Their Plan of Cam- paigu-Grant Takes the Initiative-Our Historical Night March from the Extreme Right to the Extreme Left of the Union Line- Sheridan Advances with the Second and Fifth Corps in Support -The Battle of Five Forks-Our Experiences on the Night March and on the Second Corps Front-General Hill Commands our Advance-Orders a Rifle Fire that Silences a Battery -- A Rebel Night Attack-Its Repulse-Baldwin Wounded and Gen- eral Dandy Disobeyed -- Grant's Plan of Assault -- Captain Max- field Commands our Front-His Night Attack-Its Repulse- Captain Norris Reconnoiters and Reports-The Signal Gun and the Grand Assault -- Its Success-Captain Maxfield Attacks and Captures his Front, a Battery of Artillery and its Supports -- The Advance of the Skirmishers of the Eleventh-Quickly under Fire -The Assault of the Rebel Barracks-Set on Fire-Fighting among the Blazing Structures -- The Assault on Fort Gregg led by Lieutenant Payne of Our Regiment-That on Fort Whitworth led by A and B of the Eleventh under Command of Captain Rolfe, of A. and Lieutenant Brady, in Command of B-The Sur- render of the Two Forts after a Desperate Resistance-The Close of the Battles of the Day-Casualties . . 307
CHAPTER XXX. THE PURSUIT AND THE SURRENDER.
The Predicament of General Lee -- Ilis Decision -- The Abandonment of Richmond and its Occupancy by Union Troops-Grant Fol- lows Lee's Escaping Column-Ord and the Twenty-fourth Corps Cut Loose as a Flying Column -- Incidents of the March-We Reach Burkeville Junction and Place Ourselves between Lee and Johnston after a Steady March of Fifty-three Miles-The Move- ments of Sheridan and Meade-General Read's Fatal March on High Bridge-We Advance on Rice's Station to Meet Longstreet -... He Evades U's -- The Battle of Sailor's Creek-Farmville-The Bridges Burned except one Saved by the Second Corps-This Corps boldly Crosses, and sorted Confronts the Confeder- ate Army -- The Twent 'and the Fifth Corps Move out of Farmville and Push thearts Appomattox Court House to Cut off Ice-Incidents of the March -- An Early Morning Rest in the
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Rear of Sheridan-A Greasy Breakfast-Interrupted by the Ad- vancing Enemy-In Line of Battle and in the Front Once More --- A Cavalry Retreat-The Assault of Gordon's Men --- We Beat them Back and Follow on Their Heels-Our Assault on a Battery -- Beaten Back, we Reform and are again Advancing when the An- nouncement of Lee's Surrender is Made to Us -- Casualties . . 319
CHAPTER XXXI. AFTER THE SURRENDER,
The Formal Surrender-Our March to Richmond -- Our Life There --- Ordered to Northeastern Virginia-Incidents of Life in Freder- icksburg-Ordered to Reunite -- We Meet at Fredericksburg and are Sent to City Point-Mustered Out-Are Sent to Augusta --- Paid off and Disbanded . 332
PERSONAL SKETCHES.
Field .
. 345
Staff .
. 348
Non-commissioned Staff
. 350
Band .
. 352
Company 1
. 351
Company B
. 364
Company C
. 370
Company D
376
Company E
. 885
Company F
. 392
Company G
. 401
Company H
. 410
Company I
. 420
Company K
. 423
Nurses
. 435
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CHAPTER I.
FROM AUGUSTA TO WASHINGTON.
Organization of the Regiment-Breaking Camp-On Our Way to Wash- ington -- Camp Knox.
THE Field and Staff, the Band, and the ten Companies of the Eleventh Regiment, Maine Jufantry Volunteers, were made up of the following named :
FIELD AND STAFF.
John C. Caldwell, Colonel.
Harris M. Plaisted,
Lieutenant-Colonel.
William M. Shaw, Major.
Charles J. Pennell,
Adjutant.
Ivory J. Robinson,
Quartermaster.
Albert S. Clark, Surgeon.
William C. Gordon, Assistant Surgeon.
Caleb H. Ellis,
Harrison Hume,
Chaplain. Sergeant-Major.
George H. Caldwell,
Quartermaster Sergeant.
Henry C. Adanrs,
Commissary Sergeant.
Joseph D. Moore,
Hospital Steward.
Corydon A. Alvord, Jr., Drum Major.
Sylvester C. Moody.
Fife Major.
Abram Barnes, Roscoe G. Buck,
BAND. McDonald, Leader. Musicians. Benjamin F. Brown, Samuel C. Chick,
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THE STORY OF ONE REGIMENT.
Marshall S. Eastman,
Alexander Fuller,
Joseph M. Fuller,
Nathan U. Hinckley,
Isaac C. Hovey,
Joseph R. W. Huntress,
Thomas K. Jones,
James M. Larrabee,
Meltiah W. Lawrence,
William Libby,
Henry C. Long,
John M. Pease,
Nathan W. Pease,
John H. Paine,
Thomas J. Robinson,
George B. Safford,
David Stevens,
· Benjamin W. Storer.
Calvin E. Woodbury, Total, 38.
COMPANY A.
Woodbury S. Pennell, Captain. Sylvanus B. Bean, First Lieutenant. Randall Libby, 2d, Second Lieutenant.
Sergeants. Joseph O. Gentleman, First Sergeant ;
William H. Kaler, Lewis Il. Holt, Albert Leighton.
Charles M. Moore,
Corporals.
Charles J. Noyes, George A. Bakeman, Moses L. Lufkin,
Charles E. Poor,
Armandell Barbour, Angavine Gray,
William H. H. Frye, George W. Collins.
Frank Stone, Musician. Augustus S. Davis, Wagoner. Number of Privates, 63 -- total. 81.
COMPANY B.
William HI. Kimball, Captain. Nathaniel W. Cole. First Licatenant.
James II. Albee, Second Lieutenant.
Sergeants.
James Whitney, First Sergeant ; Charles A. Cook, Abijah S. Lord, William Wiley, George Payne.
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Corporals.
Alexander T. Katon, George M. Rollins,
Ausburn Hutchins,
Henry M. Neal,
Charles J. McCausland,
James H. Taylor,
James A. Ridlon. Stephen H. Emerson.
Musicians.
John S. Kelley,
Benjamin A. Smith. Number of Privates, 61 -- total, 79.
COMPANY C.
Robert F. Campbell, Captain. George W. Seavey, First Lieutenant. J. William West, Second Lieutenant. Sergeants.
Edgar A. Nickels, First Sergeant ; Charles W. Woods, Adams D. Plummer, Fletcher K. Leighton.
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