26th Maine

[Hammons]

Looking for more information on the 26th Maine Infantry. Also 28th Maine. Have relatives in both. Thank you!

 

[Nathan Stuart]

Brief overviews by the NPS of each of the 26th. ME Infantry and the 28th. ME Infantry are shown at the links below:-

Battle Unit Details - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov

Battle Unit Details - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov

For a detailed history of the 26th. ME Infantry, including a regimental roster, see the link below:-

History of the Twenty-sixth Maine Regiment : Maddocks, Elden B., b. 1843 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Published under vote of the Twenty-sixth Maine Association passed August 26, 1898.

archive.org

A little more history of the 28th. ME Infantry (with only nine months service) can be viewed at the following link:-

Civil War Index - 28th Maine Infantry

28th Maine Infantry in the Civil War - CivilWarIndex.com - Primary Source Material on the Soldiers and the Battles.

civilwarindex.com

Hope this information satisfies what you need to know about both of these units.

 

[ErnieMac]

History of the Twenty-sixth Maine Regiment from Internet Archive:

History of the Twenty-sixth Maine Regiment : Maddocks, Elden B., b. 1843 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Published under vote of the Twenty-sixth Maine Association passed August 26, 1898.

archive.org

 

[Stryker65]

26th Maine was under Colonel Nathaniel H. Hubbard IIRC, and served in the 3rd or 4th Division, 19th Corps at Port Hudson, in the Left Wing.

28th Maine was in two battalions -- one battalion fought at Donaldsonville under Maj. Joseph D. Bullen, while the other served at Port Hudson under Colonel Ephraim Woodman. Many 28th Maine men reenlisted in the 2nd Maine Cavalry.

 

[delta rifles]

Here are a few sources from my research. I have more, but I need to find them.

26th Maine-

26th Infantry. Knox, Hancock, and Waldo counties. October 11, 1862. ME: 236. Maddocks, Eiden B. https://archive.org/details/03977637.3236.emory.edu

History of the Twenty-Sixth Maine Regiment. Published Under Vote of the Twenty-Sixth Maine Association Passed August 26, 1898. Charles H. Glass & Company, Bangor, 1899. 374pp. Roster on pages 46-69.
D. 136. MHR. https://archive.org/stream/03977637.3236.emory.edu/03977637_3236_djvu.txt.

28th Maine-

Edwards, Abial H. "Dear Friend Anna": The Civil War Letters of a Common Soldier From Maine. Orono, ME: U ME, 1992. 161 p. E601E38