The Civil War in the East

6th Maine Battery (F)

 

The Sixth Maine Battery lost 13 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 27 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

1862

January 1

Organized at Augusta and mustered in; Duty at Augusta until March and at Portland, Me.

April 1-3

Moved to Washington, D.C.; Camp at East Capital Hill and at Forts Buffalo and Ramsey, and at Falls Church, Va.

June

Ordered to report to General Banks at Harper's Ferry, W. Va.; Attached to 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of Virginia; Duty at Harper's Ferry, Cedar Creek and Little Washington, Va.

August

Attached to 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army Potomac

August 9

Battle of Cedar Mountain

August 16 -
September 2

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia

August

Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps

August 20-26

Fords of the Rappahannock

August 29

Battle of Groveton

August 30

Battle of Bull Run

September 1

Chantilly

September

Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 12th Corps, Army Potomac

September -
October

Maryland Campaign

September 14

Crampton's Pass, South Mountain Md.

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

September - December

Duty at Sandy Hook, Md. and at Harper's Ferry, W. Va.

December 2-6

Reconnaissance to Winchester

December 27

Action at Dumfries

1863

January - May

Duty at Dumfries

May 27

At Falmouth

June

4th Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army Potomac

June - July

Gettysburg Campaign

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

The battery was commanded at Gettysburg by Lieutenant Edwin B. Dow. It brought 103 men to the field serving four 12-pounded Napoleons, and suffered 13 wounded.

July 7-14

Pursuit to Williamsport, Md.

July 13

Frederick, Md.

July 18 - August 2

March to Warrenton Junction, Va. and duty there

September

1st Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve

September 16

At Culpeper

October 12-22

Bristoe Campaign

October 12-13

Culpeper

October 14

Bristoe

November 7-8

Advance to line of Rappahannock

November 26 -
December 2

Mine Run Campaign

November 28-30

Mine Run

1864

Apri

Attached to Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps

May 3

Campaign from the Rapidan to James River

May 5-7

Battles of the Wilderness

May 8-12

Spottsylvania

May 12-21

Spottsylvania C. H.

May 12

"Bloody Angle," Spottsylvania C. H.

May 23-26

North Anna River

May 26-28

On line of the Pamunkey

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 16-19

Before Petersburg

June 16

Siege of Petersburg

June 22-23

Jerusalem Plank Road

July 27-28

Deep Bottom

July 30

Mine Explosion (Reserve)

August 14-18

Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom

October 20

Garrison, Fort Davis

October

At Fort McGilvrey and Battery 9

November

Artillery Reserve, Army Potomac

1865

March 15

At Fort Sampson

April 2-3

Assault on and capture of Petersburg

April 3

Ordered to Reserve Artillery at City Point

May 3

Ordered to Alexandria

June 4

Ordered to Augusta, Me.

June 7

Mustered out