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The 12th Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Formation

The 12th Maine Regiment, formed in November 1861, was one of the 10 regiments Major General Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts received permission to form.

George F. Shepley a Democrat and a noted Portland lawyer and U.S. Attorney for Maine, headed the new regiment.

On Oct. 1, 1861, Shepley wrote to Maine Gov. Israel Washburn to report that he expected the new 12th Maine Regiment to be filled soon "with the very best men in the State."

Shepley also reported, "I have abandoned every other thought and pursuit, and have embarked in this movement all my hopes energies and efforts and, if need be my fortune and my life."^[1]

Accounts of engagements

According to the New York Times, "The town of Madisonville, La., on the other side of Lake Pontchartrain, has been captured without resistance and is now garrisoned by our forces. The expedition consisted of a portion of the Maine Twelfth, the Connecticut Ninth, two battalions from the convalescent camp of the Thirteenth Corps, the Massachusetts Fifteenth battery, battery of the United States artillery and a company of the Louisiana Second cavalry, the whole under the command of Col. Kimrall, of the Maine Twelfth.

The great Union mass meeting was held here the same night at the St. Charles Theatre, which was crowded from pit to dome, including a large number of planters from up and down the river. Speeches were made by Messrs. Flandres, L. Madison Day, and Thos. J. Durant."^[2]^[3]

Significant events

Total strength and casualties

The regiment lost 3 officers and 49 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds. 2 officers and 237 died of disease for a total of 291 fatalities from all causes.^[5]

Officers

Mascots

"The oddest pets we have yet seen were two bears, which the 12th Maine regiment of the 19th Corps, led through the city recently. These bears were brought all the way from Louisiana, and have been in several fights. They have become perfectly tame and tractable, and march along at the head of the band, with an air that indicates they feel themselves veteran soldiers of the bruin order, and that they have a character to sustain."^[8]

See also

References

1. ^The 12th Maine in Louisiana
2. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/1864/01/21/news/department-gulf-capture-town-madisonville-eighth-january-cotton-sugar.html DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF.; Capture of the Town of Madisonville--The Eighth of January--Cotton and Sugar. The New York Times, 21 January, 1864.]
3. ^The 12th Maine in Louisiana
4. ^Stephen Hawks. Civil War In The East
5. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.state.me.us/sos/arc/archives/military/civilwar/12meinf.htm# |title=State of Maine Civil War |access-date=2018-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070102044036/http://www.state.me.us/sos/arc/archives/military/civilwar/12meinf.htm# |archive-date=2007-01-02 |dead-url=yes |df= }}
6. ^¹Whitman, William Edward Seaver and Charles Henry True. [https://archive.org/stream/01742514.3181.emory.edu/01742514_3181#page/n305/mode/2up/search/Peter+Knapp Maine in the war for the union: a history of the part borne by Maine troops in the suppression of the American rebellion]. Lewiston: N. Dingley Jr. & Co., 1865.
7. ^Howe, Stanley Russell. [https://books.google.com/books?id=f8x2CQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT36&ots=cWi2UQZEv9&dq=Gideon%20A.%20Hastings%20(1821-1905)&pg=PT36#v=onepage&q&f=false Bethel, Maine: A Brief History]. Charleston, S.C., The History Press, 2009.
8. ^[https://shenandoah1864.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/41/ Mascots in the XIX Corps, Sheridan’s Army of the Shenandoah] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615083143/https://shenandoah1864.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/41/ |date=2018-06-15 }}, Janesville Gazette, August 31, 1864