Maine 5th Volunteer Infantry, Company K (Union)
24/06/1861
Organized - Maine 5th Volunteer Infantry, Company K - Maine
30/04/1863
Battle - Chancellorsville - Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Chancellorsville
On April 27, 1863, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker launched a turning movement designed to pry Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia out of its lines at Fredericksburg.READ MORE
08/05/1864
Battle - Spotsylvania Court House - Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Spotsylvania Court House
Following the Battle of the Wilderness, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant marched the Union army south with the hope of capturing Spotsylvania Court House and preventing Robert E. Lee's army from retreating further. Lee's Confederates, however, managed to get ahead of the Federals and block the road. Fighting began on May 8th, when the Union Fifth Corps under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren and the Sixth Corps under Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick engaged Confederate Maj. Gen. Richard Anderson's First Corps at Laurel Hi…READ MORE
27/07/1864
Mustered Out - Maine 5th Volunteer Infantry, Company K - Maine
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regiment -Maine 5th Volunteer Infantry (Union)
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