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Cpl. Colon L. Ober enlisted as a Private in Co. D, 31st Maine Inf. Rgt., which was organized at Augusta in Mar. and Apr. 1864. Mustered into to Federal Service on 18 Apr. 1864, the regiment left the State for Washington, D.C. The 31st Maine was assigned (along with its' sister regiment, the 32nd Maine) to the 2nd Bde., 2nd Div., 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac. The 31st Maine participated in the Battles of the Wilderness (06 May 1864), Spottsylvania (08-21 May 1864), the North Anna (23-26 May 1864), and Cold Harbor (01-12 Jun. 1864), before participating in the initial Assault on Petersburg (17 Jun. 1864), the Siege of Petersburg (17 Jun. 1862-02 Apr. 1865), the Battle of the Crater (30 Jul. 1864), Poplar Springs Church (30 Sep. 1864), the successful Assault on Petersburg (02 Apr. 1865), and the Occupation of Petersburg (03-20 Apr. 1865). The 31st Maine then participated in the Grand Review at Washington, D.C. on 23 May 1865, and was mustered-out of Federal service on 15 Jul. 1865. The 31st Maine was a hard-fighting regiment that lost 18 Officers and 161 Enlisted Men killed or mortally-wounded-in-action (total: 179 combat fatalities). After the Civil War, Colon Ober moved to Newton, Mass.; his descendant, DOUGLASS J. OBER (my late father's cousin) was killed in the infamous Cocoanut Grove Fire, in Boston, in 1942.
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