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 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.

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	Sgt	Parsons, John W.	KIA 09/17

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