Federal Regiment

7th Maine Infantry

Commanding Officer on the Antietam Campaign:
Maj. Thomas W Hyde

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Sixth Army Corps
  Division - 2nd Division, 6th Corps
  Brigade - 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Corps

Statistics

Initial Strength: 181; Killed in Action (KIA): 25;
Losses, % of Initial Strength: 13.8%

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #10: Confederate Counterattacks in the Center (11 am-1 pm)
Detail Map #15: The Charge of the 7th Maine at Piper's Farm (5-5:30 pm)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #75: Irwin's Brigade, Smith's Division - 17 Sep, 12 PM to 18 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #102: Sixth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 4 PM
Tablet #72: Smith's Division, Sixth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 19 Sep, 9 AM
Tablet #74: Irwin's Brigade, Smith's Division - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 19 Sep, 9 AM
Tablet #74, cont: Irwin's Brigade, Smith's Division - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 19 Sep, 9 AM
Tablet #121: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 8 AM to 17 Sep, 6 PM

More on the Web

See Major Hyde's narrative of the disastrous charge of the 7th Maine at Antietam in a post over on the blog.

There's was (c. 2000) a fine article about that attack from the point of view of one of the soldiers, Roscoe G Philbrick, online from the Philbrick and Philbrook Family Association on RootsWeb (gone by 2024, alternate location not found).

We have 106 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Lt	Butler, Joseph G.	MIA (r) 09/17
A	Mus	Haines, Roger B.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Keating, Richard	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Lewin, Jr., James	KIA 09/17
A	Corp	Merrill, Augustus	WIA/POW 09/17
A	Pvt	Wolhaupter, Charles Hanford	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Crawford, Thomas Orin	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Elders, John Calvin	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Grant, Addison H.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Hatch, Hiram M.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Hawes, Charles B.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Holbrook, William Henry Harrison	MIA (r) 09/17
B	Capt	Jones, James Parnell	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	McKenney, John Crosby	POW 09/17
B	Pvt	Merrow, Timothy	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Skolfield, John Francis	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Thoits, Charles Rotheus	MIA (r) 09/17
B	Corp	Timmins, Crosman	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Tobey, Enos Merrill	MIA (r) 09/17
B	Lt	Webber, Eli H.
B	Pvt	York, William H.	MWIA 09/17
C	Sgt	Benson, Andrew Melvin	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Bragg, George E.	MWIA 09/17
C	Corp	Harmon, Allen Snow	WIA 09/17
C	Corp	McKay, Moses W.	WIA 09/17
C	Sgt	McLaughlin, Eli	MIA (r) 09/17
C	Corp	McPheters, Warren A.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Stickney, William C.	MWIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Thomas, James A.	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Babb, Joseph Edwin	WIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Burroughs, Albert Henry	WIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Campbell, Harry	KIA 09/17
D	Lt	Goodwin, Charles Augustus	KIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Goodwin, Flavel H.	WIA/POW 09/17
D	Pvt	Page, Jacob	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Penbrook, Charles P.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Richardson, Thomas A.	MIA (r) 09/17
D	Pvt	Ross, Horace	WIA 09/17
D	Corp	Saunders, George Gowell	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Bachelder, Abram	WIA 09/17
E	Corp	Burrill, Newell S.	WIA 09/17
E	Capt	Channing, John W.
E	Pvt	Dolan, Thomas	WIA 09/17
E	Lt	Emery, Augustus F.	WIA 09/17
E	Sgt	Greenlief, Perry
E	Pvt	Hammond, Elias H.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Henabry, Thomas	KIA 09/17
E	Lt	Nickerson, Albert Allen
E	Pvt	Preble, Rufus	KIA 09/17
E	Corp	Tuttle, Samuel R.	WIA 09/17
F	Corp	Benson, William Henry	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Chase, Charles B.	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Foster, Israel Augustus	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	O'Brien, Patrick S.	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Philbrick, Roscoe George	WIA 09/17
F	Lt	Shorey, Lyman Munson	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Studley, Benjamin C.	POW 09/17
F	Pvt	Tibbetts, Frederick C.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Townsend, Elden	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Williams, George E.
F	Pvt	Wixson, Hiram	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Armstrong, James H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Begg, John R.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Cobb, James H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Coffee, Dennis	WIA 09/17
G	Capt	Haskell, William Lewis	MWIA 09/17
G	Corp	Jackson, Robert H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Johnston, James	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Knight, William P.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Lent, James W.	WIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Motley, William Henry	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Murphy, Edward	WIA 09/17
G	Corp	Nason, William P.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Norton, Jeremiah S.	MIA (r) 09/17
G	Pvt	Sprague, Alvah Jackson	POW 09/17
G	Corp	Waterhouse, Charles Henry	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Waterhouse, Gardner O.J.	MIA (r) 09/17
H	Pvt	Boyer, George R.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Commey, John F.	KIA 09/17
H	Sgt	Crosby, William
H	Pvt	Debeck, Elisha C.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Eddy, Charles H.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Hodgkins, George W.	MIA (r) 09/17
H	Pvt	Rowe, Orlando J.	WIA 09/17
H	Lt	Warren, Henry	MIA (r) 09/17
I	Lt	Brown, Harlan Page	KIA 09/17
I	Capt	Cook, John Benajah	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Hardy, Lewis Edward	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Hartford, Darius	WIA 09/17
I	Sgt	Hill, Henry Francis	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Jordan, Willis Tappan	WIA 09/17
I	Corp	Turney, Enoch B.	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Whittier, Albert B.	MWIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Buker, Hiram	KIA 09/17
K	Corp	Carvill, Jordan Golder	WIA 09/17
K	Capt	Cochrane, Granville Park	WIA 09/17
K	Corp	Collins, Edward	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Fargo, Elisha S.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Hall, George B.	WIA/POW 09/17
K	Pvt	McHannan, Felix	POW 09/17
K	Pvt	McKenney, George W.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Putney, George H.	POW 09/17
K	Pvt	Smith, Charles J. B.	MIA (r) 09/17
K	Pvt	Wilcox, John A.	WIA 09/17
F&S	Maj	Hyde, Thomas Worcester
F&S	SgtMaj	Parsons, John W.	KIA 09/17

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