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Lot of 2. Chaplin, Daniel (1820-1864). Union officer in command of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment during the Siege of Petersburg. Partially printed DS, 10 x 15 in. March 12, 1864. Appointment commissions Norris N. Pierce as Quarter Master Sergeant of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery. One June 18, 1864, Chaplin led the 1st Maine in a calamitous charge against Confederate breastworks at Petersburg. His regiment charged without support and sustained the greatest single day's loss by any one unit during the war, losing over 600 out of approximately 900 men. Chaplin survived the siege but was fatally shot by a sharpshooter at Battle of Deep Bottom later that summer. Norris, originally of Bangor, ME, enlisted in February of 1863 as a private. He, too, survived the charge at Petersburg and mustered out in September after the war ended. Also includes chrome reunion badge, 3.75 in., of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, featuring navy blue ribbon and applied gold crossed cannon. Fastening pin present. Condition: Staining, but structurally sound. Archival strengthening to creases and edges.