Blogger's note

I apologize for the lack of postings.  I have been having some trouble with my left arm not healing the way it should and I have to type one handed.  I feel like I have let my 7th Maine men down by not posting the way I wanted to post.  So starting today I am going try and get back on track. 

Bobbie:-)

149 years ago today, late afternoon, a gallant charge

Casualties in the Seventh Me. Regiment in the Battle of Antietam Company A Lieut. J.G. Butler - missing Private James Lewin, Houlton - killed Private Roger B. Haines, Houlton - wounded Private Charles H. Wolhampter, Monticello - wounded knee, severe Private Richard Keating, Houlton - wounded and missing Corporal Augustus L. Merritt, Maysville - foot, severe Company B Captain James P. Jones - wounded slightly Lieut. William L. Haskell, Acting Adj't, Poland - wounded both legs, severe 1st Serg't J. C. McKenney, Phippsburg - missing Private Thomas Crawford, Bath - killed Private Calvin Elders, Bath - hip, slightly Private John Skolfield, Bath - foot, slightly Corporal Crossman Timmings, color corps, Bath - knee, slight Private E. M. Tobey, Bath - missing Private M. M. Hatch, Lewiston - leg, severe Private Addison Grant, Frankfort - side, severely Private William York, Skowhegan - thigh, mortal Private Timothy Merro, Vassalboro - arm, slight Private Charles B. Hawes, Union - missing Private William H. Holbrook, Emden - missing Private C.B. Thoits, Pownal - missing Company C Lieut. A. M. Benson - hip,slight Serg't Eli McLaughlin, Oldtown - missing Corporal W. A. McPheaters - hip, severe Corporal A.S. Harmon, Lincoln - leg Private George E. Bragg, Detroit - leg, severe Private William C. Stickney, Springfield - arm *Private Moses W. McKay, Oldtown - wounded Company D Lieut. Charles A. Goodwin, Dresden - killed Color Serg't Harry Campbell - killed 1st Serg't A. K. Burroughs, Houlton - leg, flesh wound Serg't Flavell H. Goodwin, Biddeford - killed Corporal George D. Saunders, Minot - both legs, severe Private Horace Ross, Bowdoin - leg, severe Private Charles P. Penbrook, Bath - leg, severe Private Jacob Page - shoulder, severe Private Joseph E. Babb, Bowdoin - leg, slight Private Thomas A. Richards, Dresden - missing Company E Lieut. A. F. Emery, Kendall's Mills - abdomen, slightly Private Rufus Preble, Winslow - killed Private Thomas Hennabry, Hartland - killed Corporal N.S. Burrill, Hartland - hand Corporal S. R. Tuttle, Fairfield - hand, slight Private Abram Batchelder, Pittsfield - arm, severe Private E. H. Hammond, Pittsfield - foot, severe Private Thomas Dolan, Portland - arm, slight Company F Lieut. L. M. Shorey- foot, severe Private Fred C. Tibbets, Athens - killed Private C. B. Chase, Canaan - shoulder, ankle and leg Corporal W. H. Benson, Athens - hip, slight Private Hiram Wixon, Albion - hand Private Israel A. Foster, Portland - leg, severe Private Patrick O'Brian, Portland - leg, mortal Private E. Townsend, Portland - hand, severe Private H.D. Philbrick, Skowhegan - hand, slight Private B.C. Studley, China - missing Company G Serg't William H. Motly, Portland - face, severe Serg't James H. Armstrong, Portland - shoulder, severe Corporal Robert H. Jackson, Naples - foot, severe Private Charles H. Waterhouse, Portland - thigh Color Corporal William P. Nason, Portland - leg, slight Private John R. Begg, Portland - arm, severe Private J.H. Norton, Bath - missing Private Dennis Coffer, Bath - face, severe Private Edward Murphy - elbow, severe Private James H. Johnson - leg, mortal Private J. H. Cobb, Saccarappa - foot, severe Private Alvah J. Sprague, Bath - taken prisoner Private Charles J. B. Smith, Portland - missing Private James W. Lent, Richmond - missing Private T. J. Waterhouse, Scarboro - missing Company H Lt. Henry Warren, Bangor - missing Private J.F. Commey, Oldtown - killed Private G.W. Hodgkins, Stetson - missing Private G. R. Boyer, Bangor - hip Private C. H. Eddy, Clifton - hand, slight Private O. J. Rowe, Clifton - leg, severe Private E. Debeck - foot, slight Company I Captain John B. Cook - leg, severe Lt. Harlow P. Brown, Bethel - killed Corporal Enoch B. Turney - leg, severe Private W.T. Jordan, Strong - side, severe Private Lewis E. Hardy, Hampden - leg Private D. Hartford - foot Private A. B. Whittier - leg Company K Captain G.P. Cochran - ankle, severe Corporal E. Collins, Lewiston - leg, slight Color Corporal J.G. Carver, Lewiston - side, severe Private H. Baker, Bowdinham - killed Private G.W. McKenney - hip, severe Private J.A. Wilcox - leg, severe Private E. S. Fargo - hand, slight Private P. McHannan, Lewiston - missing Private G. H. Putney - missing Private G. B. Hall - wounded and missing N. C. Staff Serg't Major John B. Parsons, Houlton - killed Those reported missing may some have been taken by the enemy, some killed, and their bodies not identified, and some have found their way to some remote hospital. Thos. W. Hyde Major Commanding 7th Maine Vols. Lewiston Falls Journal Lewiston, Maine October 2, 1862 *From Maine Adjutant Generals Report Vol. II page 173

The Journey Continues.....

The steamer Bay State went "passing up the Sound between the Long Island and Conneticut shores." On the morning of the 24th the regiment touched at New York where they changed boats for Elizabethport, NJ. Upon reaching there they boarded the cars for Baltimore via Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The night long train ride found the men of the 7th sleeping on the hard seats and straw covered floors of the cars. The morning of the 25th found them in York, Pennsylvania where they met the first troops that had seen action, "red caps".  The route southward from York to Baltimore seemed “semi hostile” with soldiers posted along their route, but before long they arrived in Baltimore and camped in the western part of the city.  (From a letter to the Maine Farmer written August 26th and printed on Sept. 5th 1861 by a member of Co. D.)

The steamer Bay State carried the men of the 7^th Maine south to New York.(LP2817 digital image of lithograph courtesy of the Mariners Museum and Park).

150 years ago today

Below is a paraphase of a letter written on Aug. 26th by a member of Co. D, 7th Maine Regiment and published on Sept. 5th in the Maine Farmer. 

On August 23rd 1861 the 7th Maine Regiment began their journey south to join in the fight to preserve the union.  They would strike tents at 1:00 a.m. at their camp in Augusta and three hours later were marching to the train depot to board the cars.  They arrived in Boston at 4:00 p.m. and marched from the train station to Faneuil Hall where they were fed a splendid supper.  After resting and filling their haversacks rations the regiment marched to the Fall River depot where they boarded the cars again and by midnight were on the steamer Bay State.

The 7th Maine Regiment -The following companies compose the 7th Me. Regiment, rendezvoused at Augusta:          

Houlton Company, Capt. Freeze, (Company A)

China Company, Capt. Jones, (Company B)

Unity Company, Capt. Robinson, (Company C)

Bath Company, Capt. Hyde, (Company D)

Fairfield Company, Capt. Conner, (Company E)

Biddeford Company, Capt. Cushman, (Company F)

Portland Company, Capt. Gilman, (Company G)

Bangor Company, Capt. Cass, (Company H)

Presque Isle Company, Capt. Rolfe. (Company I)

Monmouth Company, Capt. Norris, (Company K)

Seven of the above companies were in camp Friday last.  Two others came in on Saturday, and the other, the Monmouth Co., arrived on Monday.

(Bath Times). August 19, 1861 The Lewiston Daily Evening Journal - Lewiston, Maine.