History of the First - Tenth - Twenty-ninth Maine regiment. In service of the United States from May 3, 1861, to June 21, 1866

Follow Maine men from enlistment to muster-out. A unit history written near in time to the events. History of the First - Tenth - Twenty-ninth Maine regiment traces the 1861-1866 Union Army service of three Maine volunteer infantry formations, setting their movements and losses within the wider Union war effort. Names. Dates. Places. Voices. Memory. Part narrative, part record, it offers clear civil war battlefield accounts alongside the administrative fabric of soldiering: musters, transfers, casualties, and the return to civilian life. For readers seeking a dependable military history reference, it is a focused civil war regimental history and Union army unit history in one, grounded in contemporaneous reports and official returns. Essential to civil war genealogy research and invaluable to local history researchers, this volume preserves a complete regimental roster that anchors family stories to the lived experience of Maine Civil War soldiers. It also serves collectors of Union infantry regiments and students of how communities raised, supplied, and mourned their own. Dip in for a single name, or read straight through for a ground-level view of the war's machinery and the price paid by Maine towns. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Whether you read for human scale, for the structure of a civil war roster collection, or to understand how the war looked from Maine, this book stands as a lasting record, in peace too.