The 2nd Artillery Battery, under James Hall, finds itself buying time and trying to slow down the Confederate Army. The artillerymen wind up fighting hand-to-hand against far superior numbers.

At Gettysburg on Day 3, while George Pickett’s infantry was charging up Cemetery Ridge from the front, JEB Stuart and the Confederate Cavalry was a 10-minute gallop from reaching the top of the ridge from the other side. In the purest cavalry battle of the Civil War, the outnumbered Union […]

The 3rd Maine was ordered forward with the 1st US Sharpshooters to locate the Confederate troops on July 2, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg. They soon found themselves outnumbered and fighting valiantly for their lives in Pitzer’s woods. Featuring Battlefield Guide and Author, Peter Dalton.

Maine’s contributions to the Battle of Gettysburg are remarkable, in part, because so many of the 15 units that were there were fighting the Confederates by themselves. On Day One, the 2nd Maine Battery and the 16th Maine Infantry singularly delayed the rebel advance upon Gettysburg. On Day Two, the […]

When Hiram Berdan filled his two regiments of Sharpshooters, they included many Maine soldiers. He did not train them. They had already shown that they were the best marksmen in the army. Berdan just gave them the best tools to do their job. This video looks at the Sharpshooters’ distinctive […]

In December, 1862, General Ambrose Burnside ordered the Union Army to cross the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to attack the Confederate forces led by Robert E. Lee. The largest battle of the war, with more than 200,000 soldiers participating, Fredericksburg was the first to require a river crossing at […]