13th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 13th Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service
13th Maine  was organized at Portland, Maine, and mustered into Federal service for a three-year enlistment on December 13, 1861.

The veterans and recruits of the 13th were consolidated to a single battalion and transferred to 30th Maine on December 25, 1864.  Those soldiers who did not reenlist were discharged from service on January 5, 1865.

Total strength and casualties
The regiment lost 1 officer and 13 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds and 3 officers and 178 died of disease for a total of 195 fatalities from all causes.

Commanders
 Brig. Gen. Neal Dow
 Colonel Francis S. Hesseltine
 Colonel Henry Rust, Jr.

See also

 List of Maine Civil War units
 Maine in the American Civil War

Notes

References
State of Maine Civil War Website Page on the 13th Maine
The Civil War Archive

Category:Maine Civil War regiments
Category:1861 establishments in Maine
Category:Military units and formations established in 1861
Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
Category:1865 establishments in the United States