Three wartime views with a post-war copy shot of BBG. The Brevet Brigadier General is Daniel White as Colonel by C.L. Marston, Bangor, ca 1870s. Daniel White (1828-1895) served in the 2nd ME as Captain, m/o 6/63. He was later commissioned Captain, Co. A, 31st ME, 3/64; POW Cold Harbor 6/7/64; promoted Colonel 7/64; brevetted Brigadier General 3/13/65 “for gallant and meritorious service in the battles of the Wilderness and in the operations before Petersburg"; m/o 7/15/65. A fine view of regimental Chaplain George E. Crawford autographed on verso beneath Wolff’s Gallery, Alexandria back mark. Crawford wears an indistinct round badge containing a portrait on his black frock coat with ubiquitous cloth covered buttons. The tell-tale black crepe mourning ribbon on his upper sleeve suggests solemnity in the wake of the President’s assassination. Crawford joined the regiment as Chaplain 4/64; discharged by GO 7/27/65. 1st Lieut. William P. Allyn is identified in modern pencil with Warren, Cambridgeport, Mass. imprint. Allyn had prior service as 2nd Lieut., 6th Mass. Battery as depicted in this photograph; promoted 1st Lieut.; discharged 3/2/63. He joined the 31st Maine as 1st Lieut. & Adjutant 2/64; mortally WIA Petersburg 7/30/64; DOW 8/1/64. 1st Lieut. B.P. Brackley is ink signed beneath vignette with S.W. Sawyer, Bangor imprint. Brackley had served previously in the 4th Maine as 2nd Lieut. He enlisted in the 31st Maine as Private, Co. G, 4/64; promoted 1st Lieut. 5/64; m/o 7/15/65. 31st & 32nd Maine Infantries The 31st Maine was organized at Augusta and mustered in April 18, 1864. The regiment immediately proceeded to the front where it was assigned to the 9th Corps for Grant’s pending Overland Campaign. Within a few weeks, the 31st was heavily engaged in the burning Wilderness, suffering 18 killed and wounded in its baptism of fire. Not two months in service, the regiment was commended by General Griffin in Brigade Orders dated June 3, “for gallantry at the furious engagement at Bethesda Church,” where, wrote Griffin, the “31st Me. has made for itself a most brilliant record, and won for itself imperishable renown.” Throughout the hot summer of 1864—from Spotsylvania to the killing grounds before Petersburg— the 31st Maine and its sister formations engaged in a never-ending series of deliberate clashes, always pressing the enemy and moving forward in Grant’s carefully choreographed scheme of attrition designed to bleed the Army of Northern Virginia. By the time of the fearsome Mine Explosion at Petersburg on July 30—where the 31st was the first to enter the enemy’s works—the regiment had sustained 228 killed, wounded, and missing. The casualty count tempered somewhat by fall as the men entered the trenches. However, another 22 joined the casualty rolls after a brisk fight at Poplar Springs Church on September 30th before campaigning finally abated for the season. On April 2, 1865, the regiment cracked the Petersburg defenses as Richmond burned, losing 33 killed and wounded in a single day. The veteran 31st Maine marched in the Grand Review before mustering out July 15, 1865. In just twelve months of active service, 179 men had perished for the cause. The 32nd Maine was the last regiment raised by the state during the war. Only six companies had been mustered when they were hastily ordered to the front on April 20, 1864, to supplement Grant’s need for infantry. The incomplete regiment was then assigned to the 9th Corps, marching to catch up to its parent brigade somewhere in the Wilderness. The new recruits quickly came into range of Confederate musketry at Spotsylvania Court House on May 12, where the first batch of 36 men became casualties. The 32nd shared the fate of all infantry during the hellish summer, fighting and dying nearly every day in skirmish order or battle line, terrified but resolutely moving forward according to Grant’s mandate to overwhelm the shrinking Confederate Army. As the smoke and ringing ears cleared in
Three wartime views with a post-war copy shot of BBG. The Brevet Brigadier General is Daniel White as Colonel by C.L. Marston, Bangor, ca 1870s. Daniel White (1828-1895) served in the 2nd ME as Captain, m/o 6/63. He was later commissioned Captain, Co. A, 31st ME, 3/64; POW Cold Harbor 6/7/64; promoted Colonel 7/64; brevetted Brigadier General 3/13/65 “for gallant and meritorious service in the battles of the Wilderness and in the operations before Petersburg"; m/o 7/15/65. A fine view of regimental Chaplain George E. Crawford autographed on verso beneath Wolff’s Gallery, Alexandria back mark. Crawford wears an indistinct round badge containing a portrait on his black frock coat with ubiquitous cloth covered buttons. The tell-tale black crepe mourning ribbon on his upper sleeve suggests solemnity in the wake of the President’s assassination. Crawford joined the regiment as Chaplain 4/64; discharged by GO 7/27/65. 1st Lieut. William P. Allyn is identified in modern pencil with Warren, Cambridgeport, Mass. imprint. Allyn had prior service as 2nd Lieut., 6th Mass. Battery as depicted in this photograph; promoted 1st Lieut.; discharged 3/2/63. He joined the 31st Maine as 1st Lieut. & Adjutant 2/64; mortally WIA Petersburg 7/30/64; DOW 8/1/64. 1st Lieut. B.P. Brackley is ink signed beneath vignette with S.W. Sawyer, Bangor imprint. Brackley had served previously in the 4th Maine as 2nd Lieut. He enlisted in the 31st Maine as Private, Co. G, 4/64; promoted 1st Lieut. 5/64; m/o 7/15/65. 31st & 32nd Maine Infantries The 31st Maine was organized at Augusta and mustered in April 18, 1864. The regiment immediately proceeded to the front where it was assigned to the 9th Corps for Grant’s pending Overland Campaign. Within a few weeks, the 31st was heavily engaged in the burning Wilderness, suffering 18 killed and wounded in its baptism of fire. Not two months in service, the regiment was commended by General Griffin in Brigade Orders dated June 3, “for gallantry at the furious engagement at Bethesda Church,” where, wrote Griffin, the “31st Me. has made for itself a most brilliant record, and won for itself imperishable renown.” Throughout the hot summer of 1864—from Spotsylvania to the killing grounds before Petersburg— the 31st Maine and its sister formations engaged in a never-ending series of deliberate clashes, always pressing the enemy and moving forward in Grant’s carefully choreographed scheme of attrition designed to bleed the Army of Northern Virginia. By the time of the fearsome Mine Explosion at Petersburg on July 30—where the 31st was the first to enter the enemy’s works—the regiment had sustained 228 killed, wounded, and missing. The casualty count tempered somewhat by fall as the men entered the trenches. However, another 22 joined the casualty rolls after a brisk fight at Poplar Springs Church on September 30th before campaigning finally abated for the season. On April 2, 1865, the regiment cracked the Petersburg defenses as Richmond burned, losing 33 killed and wounded in a single day. The veteran 31st Maine marched in the Grand Review before mustering out July 15, 1865. In just twelve months of active service, 179 men had perished for the cause. The 32nd Maine was the last regiment raised by the state during the war. Only six companies had been mustered when they were hastily ordered to the front on April 20, 1864, to supplement Grant’s need for infantry. The incomplete regiment was then assigned to the 9th Corps, marching to catch up to its parent brigade somewhere in the Wilderness. The new recruits quickly came into range of Confederate musketry at Spotsylvania Court House on May 12, where the first batch of 36 men became casualties. The 32nd shared the fate of all infantry during the hellish summer, fighting and dying nearly every day in skirmish order or battle line, terrified but resolutely moving forward according to Grant’s mandate to overwhelm the shrinking Confederate Army. As the smoke and ringing ears cleared in
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