The Deadliest Battles for a Single Union Infantry Regiment
Lieutenant Col. William F. Fox’s landmark 1889 treatise exploring Union battle deaths during the Civil War includes a table listing the “maximum of regimental loss in killed and died of
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5th Maine Private Purchase Infantry Jacket, Early 1864
By Richard M. Milstead, PhD Enoch Whittemore, Jr., advanced to first sergeant on Feb. 4, 1864. A member of Company I of the 5th Maine Infantry, he had received several