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Lot comprising three military CDVs and a post-war civilian cabinet card dated 1896. The medical officers are pencil identified Surgeon Bates, by J.H. Walzl, Baltimore, standing with Medical Staff sword. John T. Bates enlisted 2/63 as Assistant Surgeon; died at Port Royal, SC on 4/11/63. Pencil identified Surgeon Nathan F. Blunt who joined 5/62; served at Morris Island in 1863; detailed to 24th Corps Hospital 6/64; discharged 6/12/65. With ink signed Brady view of Joseph D. Moore/Hospital Steward/11th Me Vols. Details of service not reported in HDS?. Lot further includes a later cabinet card identified in pencil as Dr. M.C. Wedgwood, with modern notations indicating Civil War service as "Act. Asst. Surgeon, 11th ME Inf 1862-64.” No medical officer so named was found in HDS. 11th Maine Infantry The 11th Maine Infantry was organized at Augusta and mustered in September 22, 1861. It entrained for Washington and briefly joined the Capitol’s defenses before being reassigned to the 4th Corps, Army of the Potomac in March 1862. The regiment participated in the Peninsula Campaign and saw its first real test of combat at the battle of Fair Oaks on May 31, losing over 70 men. The 11th Maine was in the field the entire summer of 1862 but was absent from the worst fighting of the Seven Days Battles. The regiment transferred to the Department of North Carolina in December 1862, and served with 18th Corps for roughly five months without seeing any major action. In April 1863, the regiment was assigned to Charleston with the 10th Corps, Department of the South and would remain there for a year. During that time, the 11th Maine engaged in ongoing siege operations, being only moderately committed to combat at Morris Island on December 8, 1863, where 4 men became casualties. The next year would be a tumultuous time for the regiment. The 10th Corps was committed to support Grant’s Overland Campaign, assigned to Butler’s Army of the James for operations on the south side of the river. The regiment was heavily engaged at Drewey’s Bluff in May 1864, suffering a combined 32 killed and wounded. They fought at Bermuda Hundred between May 17 and June 20, where another 44 casualties were incurred. For the rest of the summer, the 11th Maine endured siege operations against Petersburg-Richmond, becoming seriously engaged at Deep Bottom Run on August 15-16 losing 102 men after several days of heavy fighting. The battle at New Market Crossroads on October 7, 1864, resulted in an additional twelve men lost. The regiment was then given a brief respite and transported to New York City during the election of 1864, but soon returned to the front. The 11th Maine was prominent during final operations against Petersburg and the pursuit of Lee’s Army during the Appomattox Campaign. In the week leading up to the final surrender, they lost 26 killed and wounded, overwhelming the determined Confederate defenders at Forts Greg and Baldwin on April 1-2. In the last fight of the war at Clover Hill, VA (Appomattox Court House), the slogging Confederates showed they still had teeth, turning to fight and punishing the aggressive 11th Maine with 27 casualties just hours before the formal surrender. The regiment remained on occupation duty around Fredericksburg until finally mustering out on February 2, 1866. The 11th Maine “left a splendid name for intrepidity and heroism” at a cost of 122 killed and mortally wounded during the war. Provenance: The Tom MacDonald Maine Civil War CDV Collection Condition: Three photographs VG. Bates CDV trimmed around borders.