MAINE

From her 628,270 people Maine enrolled 70,107 or 11.2% of the total. 5,030 joined the Navy or Marines - Maine had many small fishing villages that could provide skilled sailors. 104 of the recruits joined the US Colored Troops. 9,398 of the men did not return home; 3,184, or about one-third, died as a result of battle. Most of the rest died from disease or accident, but 541 died in prisoner-of-war camps.

The men were formed into two cavalry regiments, a regiment of heavy artillery, seven batteries of light artillery, a regiment of sharpshooters, thirty-two regiments of infantry, and some Coast Guard companies that never left the state. There was no fighting in Maine, but the whaling fleet was badly damaged by the CSS Shenandoah late in the war. The CSS Alabama did threaten Portland Harbor in 1863, but it didn't amount to much - though it doubtless excited the Coast Guard troops. Maine troops fought throughout the eastern theater, most famously, the 20th Maine holding Little Round Top at Gettysburg.

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