War Date Document Signed

(1814-64) He was commissioned Colonel 6th Maine Infantry, July 15, 1861, and fought in the 1862 Peninsular campaign; at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and the 1864 Overland campaign; promoted to brigadier general to rank April 26, 1864; at Petersburg, while engaged in a probing action to determine the Confederate strength at Fort Harrison, Burnham was killed, on Sept. 29, 1864.

War Date Document Signed: 8 x 10, imprinted special requisition, filled out in ink. For 20 pairs of trousers, 8 pairs of shoes and 10 canteens and straps issued to Co. K, 6th Regiment Maine Infantry. Signed twice by Theo. Cary, Capt., Comdg. Co. K, 6th Maine, and by Hiram Burnham, as Col. Commanding Regt. Received at camp #22, in the field, the 28th of July 1862. Light age toning. Very fine. Very affordable price for an excellent quality war date document signed by a Union General who was killed during the Civil War!

Theodore Cary, was a 48 year old resident of Eastport, Maine, when he enlisted on July 15, 1861, as a captain, and was commissioned into Co. K, 6th Maine Infantry. He resigned on Feb. 12, 1863.

In the spring of 1862, the 6th Regiment Maine Infantry was attached to the 4th Corps under Gen. E.D. Keyes, and advanced with the rest of the Army of the Potomac on Yorktown, Va. on April 4, 1862. For the rest of its three years in service they saw the most arduous and active service. The regiment participated in ten general engagements and in a great many skirmishes. On April 5-7, 1862, it was engaged in skirmishing and reconnaissances at the siege of Yorktown, and subsequently took part in the engagements at Lee's Mills, Williamsburg, Garnett's Farm, White Oak Bridge, Antietam and Fredericksburg. From Feb. 2 to May 11, 1863, it was with the "Light Division" and during this period took an honorable part in the battle of Chancellorsville, where it lost 128 officers and men killed and wounded. Other important battles in which the 6th was engaged were Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, where it lost 16 officers and 123 men; the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and two days later in an attack on the enemy's works on the right, it lost 125 in killed, wounded and missing. On June 12, 1864, the regiment only numbered 70 men, and was under fire for eight hours, supporting Gen. Hancock's Corps, losing 16
officers and men. The original members of the regiment were mustered out on Aug. 15, 1864.

Source: The Union Army, Vol. I