An uncommon profile view of Captain William T. Parker by Hinds, Portland, identified in old pencil. Parker was commissioned 1 Lieut., Co. C, 8/62; promoted Captain 2/64; severely WIA Spotsylvania 5/19/64; DOW same day. Autographed twice in ink is Hudson Sawyer/Capt./1st Maine H. Artlly by Burwell & Homan, New Haven, with blue-green two-cent revenue stamp. Sawyer joined as Private, Co. G, 7/63; promoted Sergeant 1/64; WIA Petersburg 6/16/64; promoted 1st Lieut. 7/64; promoted Captain 4/65; brevetted Major; m/o 9/1/66. Ink signed on verso is, J.A. Lancy/Lieut. Co H 1st Me Heavy /Artillery, with imprint of J.U.P. Burham, Portland. Lancy enlisted as regimental Sergeant Major 8/62; promoted 2nd Lieut. 1/64; promoted 1st Lieut. 8/65; m/o 9/1/65. Next is pencil signed Captain Wm. A. Beckford pencil signed beneath portrait, with S.W. Sawyer, Bangor back mark. Beckford entered service as Sergeant, Co. D, 8/62; promoted 2nd Lieut. 1/64; 1st Lieut. 10/64; discharged 8/24/65. 1st Lieut. Stephen C. Talbot, by Addis, is identified by another photograph. Talbot joined as 2nd Lieut., Co. K, 8/62; Acting Adjutant 1/63; transferred to 31st Maine and promoted Major 6/64; discharged as Lieut. Colonel 8/6/64. 1st Maine Heavy Artillery This regiment was organized in August 1862 as the 18th Maine Infantry assigned to the Washington Defenses. It was redesigned as the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery in August 1862, and remained with Whipple’s Command, Military District of Washington, manning the fixed guns and fortifications that ringed the Capitol. In May 1864, the regiment along with the rest of relatively untested, but manpower-rich formations of Heavy Artillery were sent to Grant’s Army as infantry reinforcements for his strategic Overland Campaign, intentionally designed to exploit the North’s superior numbers by bleeding Lee’s Army white. Bleeding the enemy meant aggressively pressing the fight, then maneuvering so as to extend the line and pin the Army of Northern Virginia to fixed positions while constantly flanking the dwindling Confederate army with superior numbers. The supreme battle of attrition was won in no small measure at the expense of the large Heavy Artillery regiments, the 1st Maine at the forefront of the bloody assault. At Spotsylvania on May 19—a single day— the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery suffered 77 killed and 403 wounded, testament to the intensity of the fighting before Richmond. As the campaign devolved into trench warfare, short but violent attacks employing massed brigades of infantry with fixed bayonets went purposely forward to probe for weak spots or, alternatively, exploit a penetration. One such attack at Petersburg on June 18 resulted in 95 killed and 438 wounded. Cumulatively, during its thirteen months assigned to the 2nd Corps, the regiment lost a staggering 23 officers and 400 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded. Fox’s Regimental Losses states methodically, “Of all Regiments in the army this regiment sustained the greatest loss in battle,” while its true contribution to ultimate victory is incalculable. Provenance: The Tom MacDonald Maine Civil War CDV Collection Condition: Parker, Lancy, and Beckford cartes G. with wear and soiling. Sawyer and Talbot CDVs near VG. s near VG.
An uncommon profile view of Captain William T. Parker by Hinds, Portland, identified in old pencil. Parker was commissioned 1 Lieut., Co. C, 8/62; promoted Captain 2/64; severely WIA Spotsylvania 5/19/64; DOW same day. Autographed twice in ink is Hudson Sawyer/Capt./1st Maine H. Artlly by Burwell & Homan, New Haven, with blue-green two-cent revenue stamp. Sawyer joined as Private, Co. G, 7/63; promoted Sergeant 1/64; WIA Petersburg 6/16/64; promoted 1st Lieut. 7/64; promoted Captain 4/65; brevetted Major; m/o 9/1/66. Ink signed on verso is, J.A. Lancy/Lieut. Co H 1st Me Heavy /Artillery, with imprint of J.U.P. Burham, Portland. Lancy enlisted as regimental Sergeant Major 8/62; promoted 2nd Lieut. 1/64; promoted 1st Lieut. 8/65; m/o 9/1/65. Next is pencil signed Captain Wm. A. Beckford pencil signed beneath portrait, with S.W. Sawyer, Bangor back mark. Beckford entered service as Sergeant, Co. D, 8/62; promoted 2nd Lieut. 1/64; 1st Lieut. 10/64; discharged 8/24/65. 1st Lieut. Stephen C. Talbot, by Addis, is identified by another photograph. Talbot joined as 2nd Lieut., Co. K, 8/62; Acting Adjutant 1/63; transferred to 31st Maine and promoted Major 6/64; discharged as Lieut. Colonel 8/6/64. 1st Maine Heavy Artillery This regiment was organized in August 1862 as the 18th Maine Infantry assigned to the Washington Defenses. It was redesigned as the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery in August 1862, and remained with Whipple’s Command, Military District of Washington, manning the fixed guns and fortifications that ringed the Capitol. In May 1864, the regiment along with the rest of relatively untested, but manpower-rich formations of Heavy Artillery were sent to Grant’s Army as infantry reinforcements for his strategic Overland Campaign, intentionally designed to exploit the North’s superior numbers by bleeding Lee’s Army white. Bleeding the enemy meant aggressively pressing the fight, then maneuvering so as to extend the line and pin the Army of Northern Virginia to fixed positions while constantly flanking the dwindling Confederate army with superior numbers. The supreme battle of attrition was won in no small measure at the expense of the large Heavy Artillery regiments, the 1st Maine at the forefront of the bloody assault. At Spotsylvania on May 19—a single day— the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery suffered 77 killed and 403 wounded, testament to the intensity of the fighting before Richmond. As the campaign devolved into trench warfare, short but violent attacks employing massed brigades of infantry with fixed bayonets went purposely forward to probe for weak spots or, alternatively, exploit a penetration. One such attack at Petersburg on June 18 resulted in 95 killed and 438 wounded. Cumulatively, during its thirteen months assigned to the 2nd Corps, the regiment lost a staggering 23 officers and 400 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded. Fox’s Regimental Losses states methodically, “Of all Regiments in the army this regiment sustained the greatest loss in battle,” while its true contribution to ultimate victory is incalculable. Provenance: The Tom MacDonald Maine Civil War CDV Collection Condition: Parker, Lancy, and Beckford cartes G. with wear and soiling. Sawyer and Talbot CDVs near VG. s near VG.
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