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|unit_name= 19th Maine Infantry Regiment
|image=Flag of Maine.svg
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|dates= August 25, 1862, to May 31, 1865
|country= [[United States]]
|allegiance= [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]
|branch= [[Infantry]]
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The '''19th Maine Infantry Regiment''' was an [[infantry]] [[regiment]] that served in the [[Union Army]] during the [[American Civil War]].

==Service==
19th Maine was organized at [[Bath, Maine|Bath]], [[Maine]] and mustered into Federal service for a three-year enlistment on August 25, 1862.

The total loss of the 19th Maine in the two days of fighting [at Gettysburg] were 12 officers and 220 men, almost 53% of the 19th. The regiment took into battle on the second day of July 440 officers and men."<ref>Hadden, Robert Lee. 1995. "The granite glory: the 19th Maine at Gettysburg." Gettysburg: historical articles of lasting interest, July 1, 1995, issue no. 13. Page 63.</ref>

The regiment absorbed the 5th Company of Unassigned Maine Infantry in November 1864.

The regiment was discharged from service on May 31, 1865 following the Union victory.

==Total strength and casualties==
1,441 men served in the 19th Maine Infantry Regiment during its service.  It lost 192 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds.  501 members of the regiment were wounded in action, 184 died of disease, and 47 died in Confederate prisons for a total of 376 fatalities from all causes.<ref>[http://www.state.me.us/sos/arc/archives/military/civilwar/19meinf.htm]  {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070130110656/http://www.state.me.us/sos/arc/archives/military/civilwar/19meinf.htm |date=2007-01-30 }} State of Maine Civil War Website Page on the 19th Maine</ref>

==Commanders==
* [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] [[Seldon Connor]]
* Colonel Francis Edward Heath
* Colonel Isaac Warren Starbird

==See also==
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* [[List of Maine Civil War units]]
* [[Maine in the American Civil War]]

==References==
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===Sources===
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* Hadden, Robert Lee. 1995. "[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35166940 The Granite Glory: the 19th Maine at Gettysburg]." Gettysburg: historical articles of lasting interest, July 1, 1995, issue no. 13. Pages 50–63: maps, portraits. 
* Smith, John Day. 1909. [https://books.google.com/books?id=fRRCAAAAIAAJ&q=Hartshorn&pg=PA84 The History of the Nineteenth Regiment of Maine Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1865]. Minneapolis: Great Western. 1909.
*[http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=arccwunits&id=76774&v=article State of Maine Civil War Website Page on the 19th Maine]
*[http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionme.htm The Civil War Archive]
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[[Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Maine]]
[[Category:Military units and formations established in 1862]]
[[Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865]]
[[Category:1862 establishments in Maine]]


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